Borough and non-metropolitan district in Lancashire, England

Rossendale

Rossendale is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England.

Plan a trip to Rossendale→From Leeds, West Yorkshire

Every way there

Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rossendale
50 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–10
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Liverpool → Rossendale
55 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–9
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rossendale
110 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £13–18
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Rossendale, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Rossendale has

YScheduled flightsManchester, Greater Manchester (MAN), 37 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

53.683°, -2.250°

Its council is based in Bacup and its largest town is Rawtenstall. It also includes the towns of Haslingden and Whitworth. The borough is named after the Rossendale Valley, the upper part of the valley of the River Irwell.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Falsest Reality (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.