The countryside surrounding the town offers lakes, woods and hills, with distant Winter Hill rising to a height of 456 feet...
This attractive hillside village occupies a pleasant rural location close to two pretty reservoirs and the historic house known as Turton Tower...
Some of the town's loveliest architecture comes from the Victorian era, this can be seen in the elegant Victorian Market Hall with its clock and rich display of sculpture...
This is a large, typical Lancashire village lying close to the urban sprawl of Blackburn and Accrington...
The clogs and black smoke image of Bolton has long since gone, in its place is a fine city with beautiful buildings and a diverse range of attractions sufficient to satisfy the most demanding tourist...
Todmorden lies on the historic border between Yorkshire and Lancashire in an area of the Calder Valley ringed by the hills of the Pennines...
Padiham is a thriving Lancashire town lying on the Calder River. It is most famous as the home of Gawthorpe Hall, a noted country estate built early in the 17th-century for the.....
Just 20 minutes car journey away from the center of Manchester is the historic town of Worsley, which is best known for its scenic walks along the historic Bridgewater canal......
It was here that James I created "Sirloin" when he supposedly knighted his beef!..
The City of Salford lies at the heart of the Metropolis known as Greater Manchester in an area where cotton was once king and its mill workers were portrayed for posterity by acclaimed 20th-century artist L.S.Lowry...
This beautiful old town grew up close to the River Hebden at the point where a stone bridge was built as part of a pack-horse route in the 16th century...
A thriving truly cosmopolitan city with a great mixture of new and old. The capital of the north..
The town's historic roots go back beyond the Bronze-Age, as evidenced by findings in the 20th century...
This pretty Lancastrian villages the setting for historic Stoneyhurst, a noted school which was founded in the 16th-century...
A picturesque village in the Ribble Valley..
Audenshaw is a suburb of Greater Manchester. It is probably best known for its reservoirs and the busy waters of the Ashton canal, beside which visitors can see clusters of delightful canal-side properties...
Wigan is a sociable town with a long history, it received it's Royal charter in the middle of the 13th-century, but prior to that the Roman's had built a settlement here...
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Marsden offers visitors a wealth of heritage, particularly in association with the town's expansion which came about during the heady days of the Industrial Revolution...
Surrounded by the dramatic scenery of the South Pennines, with the town's gentle scenery being enhanced by the River Calder and the River Ryburn on which the town stands...
Healey Dell Nature Reserve on the Whitworth - Rochdale border, sits in a picturesque part of the Spodden Valley. Rich with flora.....
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An observation tower circa 1897Standing at 86ft high, apparently you can sometimes see the Welsh Hills from it on a very clear.....
The name of this spacious green park situated at Darwen in Lancashire epitomises the endeavour of the local borough engineer who.....
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Gawthorpe Hall, home of the Shuttleworth family for several centuries lies close to the traditional Lancastrian market town of.....
This divine house is a masterpiece of James Wyatt, one of the greatest architects to come out of the 18th century. It was built.....
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Manchester's fine 15th-century church of St.Mary was raised to cathedral status in 1848. It is a magnificent example of.....
Chetham's Library was founded in 1653 and is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world...
Urbis is Manchester’s Centre for Urban Culture and explores Urban culture in the cities of today and tomorrow through four.....
Manchester's leading producing theatre company, based in the historic splendour of the Victorian cotton exchange building...
Beautiful wooded valley with 19th-century Gibson Mill at its heart, an exemplar of sustainable energy. This is the flagship.....
Concert Venue...
Manchester Velodrome Britains primary indoor Olympic cycle track and widely regarded as one of the world's finest and fastest.....
Manchester Art Gallery houses one of the UK's finest art collections in spectacular surroundings. The Gallery has recently.....
Situated in the oldest passenger railway buildings in the world, the Museum tells the story of the history, science and industry.....
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