Visit Great Harwood Places

Welcome to Visit Great Harwood Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Great Harwood

  

Great Harwood Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Great Harwood

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Great Harwood history

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The town was once on the railway line from Blackburn to Burnley via Padiham – The North Lancs or Great Harwood Loop of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The last passenger train ran in November 1957 and goods traffic in 1964. Public transport links were further curtailed in 2016, when the direct bus link to Manchester was axed by Harrogate based Transdev.

You can visit Great Harwood places with Walkfo Great Harwood to hear history at Great Harwood’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Great Harwood has 29 places to visit in our interactive Great Harwood map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Great Harwood, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Great Harwood places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Great Harwood & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 29 audio facts unique to Great Harwood places in an interactive Great Harwood map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Great Harwood Places Map
29 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Great Harwood historic spots	Great Harwood tourist destinations	Great Harwood plaques	Great Harwood geographic features
Walkfo Great Harwood tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Great Harwood

  

Best Great Harwood places to visit

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Great Harwood has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Great Harwood’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Great Harwood’s information audio spots:

Thorneyholme Road Thorneyholme Road is a cricket and former football ground in Accrington, England. It was the home ground of Accrington F.C. from 1878 until 1894 when they moved to Moorhead Park.

St James’ Church, Church Kirk St James’ Church was an active Anglican parish church in Accrington, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn until November 2015 when it was closed. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

St John’s Church, Great Harwood St John’s Church was an Anglican parish church in St Hubert’s Road, Great Harwood, Lancashire. Its benefice has been united with that of St Bartholomew.

Billington and Langho Billington and Langho is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire. It covers the villages of Billington, Langha and the hamlets of York and Old Langhe. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 4,555. The United Kingdom Census 2011 grouped the parish with Dinckley (2001 pop. 83) giving a total of 5,415.

New St Leonard’s Church, Langho New St Leonard’s Church is in Whalley New Road, between the villages of Langho and Billington in Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Blackburn and the diocese of Blackburn.

Church of St Mary and All Saints, Whalley The Church of St Mary and All Saints is an Anglican church in the village of Whalley, Lancashire. A church probably existed on the site in Anglo-Saxon times and the current building dates from the 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List as a Grade I listed building.

Read Hall and Park Read Hall and Park is a manor house with ornamental grounds of about 450 acres (180 ha) The current hall dates from the early 19th century and is a grade II* listed building. The landscaped grounds date from around the same time and feature a waterfall, two lakes and woodland. The hall and park are not open to the public.

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