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Recommended Towns & Villages near Edgworth

Overlooking Paper Mill in Ramsbottom from St.Catherines Way.

Ramsbottom (11 Pictures)

in the county of Greater Manchester (3.1 miles, 4.9 km, direction E)

The countryside surrounding the town offers lakes, woods and hills, with distant Winter Hill rising to a height of 456 feet...

Bolton Church

Bolton (39 Pictures)

in the county of Lancashire (5.4 miles, 8.7 km, direction S)

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...

Old Market Cross, Oswaldtwistle

Oswaldtwistle (30 Pictures)

in the county of Lancashire (6.6 miles, 10.6 km, direction N)

This is a large, typical Lancashire village lying close to the urban sprawl of Blackburn and Accrington...

Accrington, Lancashire. From the top of the Coppice

Accrington (57 Pictures)

in the county of Lancashire (7.4 miles, 11.9 km, direction N)

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...

Holy Trinity Church, Hoghton, Lancashire

Hoghton (12 Pictures)

in the county of Lancashire (9.4 miles, 15.1 km, direction NW)

It was here that James I created "Sirloin" when he supposedly knighted his beef!..

The Packet House Worsley

Worsley (8 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Greater Manchester (9.7 miles, 15.5 km, direction S)

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......

Church gates

Chorley (34 Pictures)

in the county of Lancashire (9.8 miles, 15.7 km, direction W)

The town's historic roots go back beyond the Bronze-Age, as evidenced by findings in the 20th century...

Padiham. Burnley Road.

Padiham (18 Pictures)

in the county of Lancashire (11.2 miles, 18.0 km, direction N)

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.....

River Irwell, Salford

Salford (47 Pictures)

in the county of Greater Manchester (11.7 miles, 18.8 km, direction S)

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...

Wigan Parish Church

Wigan (52 Pictures)

in the county of Greater Manchester (12.2 miles, 19.6 km, direction SW)

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...

River Ribble

Ribchester (78 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Lancashire (12.8 miles, 20.7 km, direction NW)

A picturesque village in the Ribble Valley..

A picture of Todmorden

Todmorden (12 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (13.1 miles, 21.0 km, direction E)

Todmorden lies on the historic border between Yorkshire and Lancashire in an area of the Calder Valley ringed by the hills of the Pennines...

Manchester Civil Court

Manchester (227 Pictures)

a Historic City in the county of Greater Manchester (13.1 miles, 21.1 km, direction SE)

A thriving truly cosmopolitan city with a great mixture of new and old. The capital of the north..

Autumn through Mill Wood

Hurst Green (207 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Lancashire (13.5 miles, 21.8 km, direction N)

This pretty Lancastrian villages the setting for historic Stoneyhurst, a noted school which was founded in the 16th-century...

River Darwen bridge

Preston (68 Pictures)

in the county of Lancashire (15.0 miles, 24.1 km, direction NW)

This is the town that was at the centre of the cotton spinning industry for well over a hundred and fifty years. ..

This is St Stephens Church, which is in Audenshaw.

Audenshaw (2 Pictures)

in the county of Greater Manchester (16.4 miles, 26.3 km, direction SE)

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...

Quiet country lane near Waddington.

Waddington (29 Pictures)

in the county of Lancashire (16.8 miles, 27.0 km, direction N)

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Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire seen from the road to Heptonstall

Hebden Bridge (43 Pictures)

a Historic Market Town in the county of West Yorkshire (17.0 miles, 27.4 km, direction NE)

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...

Fishing Pond at Reddish Vale, Stockport

Reddish (37 Pictures)

in the county of Greater Manchester (17.2 miles, 27.7 km, direction SE)

This is a densely populated area of Stockport, Greater Manchester. It is fortunate to be close to the edge of Cheshire, thus residents have the benefit of being within easy reach of some attractive countryside...

Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire

Rufford (6 Pictures)

in the county of Lancashire (17.3 miles, 27.8 km, direction W)

Noted for its picturesque late-medieval manor house Rufford Old Hall, the village of Rufford occupies a fine setting on the fertile Lancashire Plains...

Recommended attractions near Edgworth

A section of the waterfall, taken in the grounds of Smithill's Hall, Bolton, Greater Manchester.

Smithill's Hall (7 Pictures)

(4.0 miles, 6.5 km, direction SW)

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Darwen Tower at sunset, Darwen, Lancashire.

Darwen Tower (18 Pictures)

(4.1 miles, 6.6 km, direction NW)

An observation tower circa 1897Standing at 86ft high, apparently you can sometimes see the Welsh Hills from it on a very clear.....

Bold venture Park, Darwen, Lancashire.

Bold Venture Park (30 Pictures)

(4.5 miles, 7.3 km, direction NW)

The name of this spacious green park situated at Darwen in Lancashire epitomises the endeavour of the local borough engineer who.....

A picture of East Lancashire Railway, Bury - Lancashire.

East Lancashire Railway (18 Pictures)

(5.4 miles, 8.7 km, direction SE)

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Blackburn Cathedral

Blackburn Cathedral (3 Pictures)

(7.8 miles, 12.6 km, direction NW)

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One of several waterfalls at Healey Dell, Whitworth, near Rochdale, Lancs.

Healey Dell (7 Pictures)

(8.2 miles, 13.2 km, direction E)

Healey Dell Nature Reserve on the Whitworth - Rochdale border, sits in a picturesque part of the Spodden Valley. Rich with flora.....

Hoghton Tower

Hoghton Tower (12 Pictures)

(9.5 miles, 15.3 km, direction NW)

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Heaton Hall

Heaton Hall (4 Pictures)

(9.8 miles, 15.7 km, direction SE)

This divine house is a masterpiece of James Wyatt, one of the greatest architects to come out of the 18th century. It was built.....

Astley Hall, Astley Park, Chorley, Lancashire

Astley Hall (9 Pictures)

(10.3 miles, 16.5 km, direction W)

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Towneley Hall, Burnley, Lancashire

Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum (2 Pictures)

(11.4 miles, 18.4 km, direction NE)

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Samlesbury Hall

Samlesbury Hall (2 Pictures)

(11.5 miles, 18.4 km, direction NW)

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Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham

Gawthorpe Hall (3 Pictures)

(11.5 miles, 18.5 km, direction N)

Gawthorpe Hall, home of the Shuttleworth family for several centuries lies close to the traditional Lancastrian market town of.....

Secret Garden Cuerden Hall

Cuerden Valley Country Park (1 Pictures)

(11.6 miles, 18.6 km, direction W)

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Knights in action at Camelot Theme Park, Charnock Richard

Camelot Theme Park (4 Pictures)

(12.7 miles, 20.5 km, direction W)

Join Merlin, King Arthur and his brave knights of the Round Table at the Kingdom of Camelot and explore five magical lands filled.....

A picture of Chethams Library

Chethams Library (2 Pictures)

(12.8 miles, 20.6 km, direction SE)

Chetham's Library was founded in 1653 and is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world...

The Urbis, Manchester - Dec. 2005

Urbis (7 Pictures)

(12.8 miles, 20.6 km, direction SE)

Urbis is Manchester’s Centre for Urban Culture and explores Urban culture in the cities of today and tomorrow through four.....

Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral (11 Pictures)

(12.8 miles, 20.6 km, direction SE)

Manchester's fine 15th-century church of St.Mary was raised to cathedral status in 1848. It is a magnificent example of.....

Imperial War Museum North. Salford

Imperial War Museum North (1 Pictures)

(12.9 miles, 20.8 km, direction S)

Opened at The Quays in Trafford Park, Manchester in July 2002 and created to give northern audiences access to the national.....

Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

Royal Exchange Theatre (1 Pictures)

(12.9 miles, 20.8 km, direction SE)

Manchester's leading producing theatre company, based in the historic splendour of the Victorian cotton exchange building...

Manchester Opera House

Opera House (1 Pictures)

(13.1 miles, 21.0 km, direction SE)

Concert Venue...


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