Lancashire - Places of Interest

Places of Interest

Key
Abbey/Priory/Cathedral
Accessible open space
Amusement/Theme Park
Castle
Country Park
English Heritage
Forestry Commission
Heritage railway
Historic House

Museum (free/not free)
National Trust
Theatre
Zoo

The following are places of interest in the ceremonial county:

  • Arnside and Silverdale AONB
  • Astley Hall
  • Bank Hall
  • Beacon Fell
  • Blackburn Cathedral
  • Blackpool Pleasure Beach
  • Blackpool Tower
  • Blackpool Zoo
  • British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland
  • Camelot Theme Park
  • Clitheroe Castle
  • Darwen Tower
  • East Lancashire Railway
  • Forest of Bowland: Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
  • Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham
  • Harris Museum
  • Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
  • Hoghton Tower
  • Irwell Sculpture Trail
  • Lancaster Castle
  • Lancaster Cathedral
  • Lathom Park Chapel, site of Lathom Hall, seat of the Earls of Derby
  • Lytham Hall
  • Leighton Moss nature reserve, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
  • Martin Mere, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust nature reserve, Burscough
  • Morecambe Bay
  • Museum of Lancashire
  • Pendle Hill
  • The Pennines
  • Ribble Steam Railway
  • Rivington Pike
  • Rufford Old Hall
  • Samlesbury Hall
  • St Walburge's Church
  • Stonyhurst College – manor house dating from 1592, now a Jesuit public school
  • Towneley Hall, Burnley
  • Queen Street Mill, Burnley
  • West Lancashire Light Railway
  • West Pennine Moors
  • Williamson Park and the Ashton Memorial
  • Witton Country Park
  • Yarrow Valley Park

  • The Ashton Memorial, Lancaster

  • Bank Hall, Bretherton, a Jacobean mansion house, awaiting restoration. Home to Lancashire's oldest Yew tree and one of the two fallen sequoia in the UK.

  • Blackpool Tower, completed in 1894

  • Clitheroe Castle

  • Rivington Pike, near Horwich, a top of the West Pennine Moors is one of the most popular walking destinations in the county, on a clear day the whole of the county can be viewed from here

  • Queen Street Mill, the worlds only surviving steam driven cotton weaving shed located in Burnley.

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