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Wrightington Bar

Wrightington Bar is a small linear village in West Lancashire, England.

The place

Wrightington Bar is a small linear village in West Lancashire, England. It is on the B5250 Appley Bridge to Eccleston road, and is in the civil parish of Wrightington.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wrightington Bar

3 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.

  1. 01
    Heskin 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.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed English country house in Heskin, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St 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 km · grade II listed church in Wrightington, West Lancashire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Knightmare

    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.

    2.4 km · roller coaster situated at Camelot Theme Park · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Wrightington Bar

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 33 km · Manchester (MAN), 41 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 74 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wrightington Bar
    34 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £5–6
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Wrightington Bar
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wrightington Bar
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wrightington Bar

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 Bar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    269 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    302 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    304 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    330 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    339 km

If you know how people move in Wrightington Bar – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Wrightington Bar

Wrightington Bar is 16 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Coppullvillage and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England2.8 km
  • Charnock Richardvillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Ecclestonvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England3.9 km
  • Heskinvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3 km
  • Hill Dalesettlement and civil parish in West Lancashire, Lancashire, England3.4 km
  • Wrightingtonhamlet and civil parish in West Lancashire, England700 m