Wrightington
Wrightington is a civil parish in West Lancashire, England, with an area of 3,915½ acres.
Wrightington is a civil parish in West Lancashire, England, with an area of 3,915½ acres. The surface is hilly, rising to over 400 ft. at Harrock on the border of Parbold, and then falling to the north, northeast and southeast. On the southern border, the boundary at Appley Bridge touches the River Douglas. Wrightington Hall is to the north of this point. Tunley and Broadhurst lie to the north of the park, and Fairhurst, to the west of Harrock, reaches down to the River Douglas. At the 2011 census, Wrightington had a population of 2,886.
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Worth seeing in and around Wrightington
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Church of St Wilfrid, Standish
The Church of St Wilfrid is in Market Place, Standish, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn.
3.5 km · church building in Standish, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Heskin Hall
Heskin Hall is a manor house in Heskin, Lancashire, England. Construction began on the present hall in 1545 making it a Tudor building which has been designated a Grade I listed building by Historic England.
3.2 km · Grade I listed English country house in Heskin, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St James' Church, Wrightington Bar
St James the Great Church is in Church Lane, to the west of Wrightington in Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chorley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.
1.5 km · grade II listed church in Wrightington, West Lancashire, England,UK · Wikipedia - 04Knightmare
Knightmare was a custom roller coaster at the now defunct Camelot Theme Park in Chorley, Lancashire, United Kingdom. It was built by Zierer and designed by Anton Schwarzkopf.
3.1 km · roller coaster situated at Camelot Theme Park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wrightington
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 32 km · Manchester (MAN), 40 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 74 km
- Stations
- Appley Bridge railway station, 3.4 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wrightington34 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £4.5–6
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Wrightington80 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wrightington126 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wrightington
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Wrightington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Wrightington
Wrightington is 17 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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