Places to explore in LancashireEngland · North West England

The 158-metre iron tower over the Blackpool prom, the most famous landmark on the Lancashire coast.

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

2,185 km²

Wild heather moorland and the Trough of Bowland.

806 km²

Faded-then-reviving bay resort with a five-mile prom, the Eric Morecambe statue and the art-deco Midland Hotel.

Lancashire

Grand Edwardian domed folly rising over Williamson Park in Lancaster, dubbed the 'Taj Mahal of the North'.

Rennie's great five-arch aqueduct striding the River Lune north of Lancaster, the finest structure on the whole Lancaster Canal.

Picturesque reservoir edged by woods and moorland trails in the West Pennine Moors above Chorley.

String of reservoirs below the West Pennine Moors, ringed by walking, cycling and riding trails.

Great looping bend of the River Lune near Caton, a beauty spot painted by Turner and a riverside picnic stop.

Lancashire's largest forest with mountain-bike trails and birdwatching around big, quiet Stocks Reservoir.

Black-and-white timbered manor of 1325 near Preston, reputedly haunted, with craft shops and a bee centre.

A Pennine hamlet of old stone bridges and a ruined hall in a wooded valley on the Brontë Way near Colne

1.5 km²