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Chorley
Town in Lancashire, England

Chorley

Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, 8 miles (13 km) north of Wigan, 11 miles (18 km) south west of Blackburn, 11 miles (18 km) north west of Bolton, 12 miles (19 km) south of Preston and 20 miles (32 km) north west of Manchester.

Plan a trip to Chorley→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

The town's wealth came principally from the cotton industry. In 2020 it had a population of 36,682.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery

    Museum and art gallery within an eccentric Elizabethan historic house.

  2. 02
    Preston England Temple
  3. 03
    Hoghton Tower

    Hoghton Bottoms PR5 0SH (M65 jcn 3 to A675 northwest).

  4. 04
    Winter Hill

    At 1,496 ft (456 m), this is the highest point of the West Pennine Moors, on the border with Horwich and Bolton.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Chorley Little Theatre

    10 Dole Lane, PR7 2RL (follow Southport Road from the Town Hall, and Dole Lane is on the left),.

Eat

Where to eat

Chorley Cakes are thin and sweet, made with currants in shortcrust pastry. They're similar to Eccles Cake but with a different pastry. Find them in supermarkets.

  1. 01
    The Nile

    New Market Street, PR7 1BY (next to the Flat Iron Car Park off Union Street and New Market Street),.

  2. 02
    The Dresser's Arms
  3. 03
    Frederick's Ice Cream

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Alexis Lours (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.