Croston is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England between Chorley and Southport and is next to the River Yarrow. St. Michael's and All Angels' Church is at the centre of the village. At the end of Church Street there is a stone cross which was erected in 1953. There is a 15th-century cobbled pack horse bridge which crosses the River Yarrow. The village green is used as a venue for the annual May Day Madness, Bastille Day (14 July) celebrations and Christmas Fair.
Population: 2,739
Latitude: 53° 39' 43.81" N
Longitude: -2° 46' 30.83" W
Farington Moss is a village approximately two miles to the north of Leyland, Lancashire, England. It is a typical English village with one school and one church (St Pauls). To the northeast of the village runs the main west coast railway line.
Duxbury Woods is an area of woodland and parkland situated in Chorley, Lancashire, at the foot of the West Pennine Moors. The area originally existed as a township with the council meeting at the Yarrow Bridge pub; this was absorbed into Chorley Rur…
Downholland Cross is a small village in the civil parish of Downholland in the county of Lancashire on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain.
Cuerdale is a civil parish in the South Ribble district of Lancashire, England. It includes Cuerdale Hall and has no substantive settlements. It originated as a township in the parish of Blackburn, becoming a separate civil parish in 1866. From 1894…
The County Borough of Wigan was, from 1889 to 1974, a local government district centred on Wigan in the northwest of England.
The Church of St Leonard the Less is an Anglican church in the village of Samlesbury, Lancashire, England, situated close to the banks of the River Ribble. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn.
The Church of St James the Great is in Church Road in the former mining community of Haydock, now part of the Metropolitan Borough of St. Helens, Merseyside, in the North-west of England (postcode WA11 0NJ).
Chisnall Hall Colliery was a colliery in Coppull in Lancashire, England. It was the largest coal mine on the Lancashire Coalfield north of Wigan. The colliery on Coppull Moor was owned by Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company in 1896 when it emp…
The Catholic Church of St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith is located on Liverpool Road in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, England.
Cansfield High School previously known as Ashton-in-Makerfield Secondary Modern, is a secondary school in the United Kingdom. It is a coed school with students between the ages of 11 and 16. The school is located in the Ashton in Makerfield area of …
Brookfield is an electoral ward of the city of Preston, in Lancashire, England. It is located north-east of the city centre, in the suburb of Ribbleton. At the 2001 census the ward had a population of 7,625. As of 2008, the area is represented on th…
The British Lawnmower Museum is a museum on lawnmowers in Southport, Merseyside, northern England.
Bispham Green is a village in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. Bispham is the civil parish containing the village.
Birchley Hall is a grade II* listed Elizabethan house built in about 1594, in Billinge, Merseyside, England. It is situated in postcode WN5 7QL.
Barton was a railway station in the village of Barton, Lancashire, on the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway.
Ashton-in-Makerfield railway station was a railway station serving that town. However, it was located in neighbouring Haydock, formerly in the English county of Lancashire (now Merseyside).
The A570 is a primary route in northern England, that runs from St Helens to Southport.
The A5147 is a road in northern England that runs from Maghull in Merseyside to Scarisbrick in Lancashire.