Places to explore near Preston

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

8.6 km E

A Grade II-listed historic park and garden in Lancashire.

9.1 km E

The longest single canal in Britain, crossing the Pennines by Bingley's Five Rise Locks and the moors above Burnley.

9.7 km SE · spans 5 counties

Wild heather moorland and the Trough of Bowland.

11.1 km N

Riverside village built over a Roman fort, with a Roman museum, the columned White Bull and Stydd chapel close by.

12.2 km NE · Lancashire

Village museum on the Roman fort of Bremetennacum, home to a replica of the famous Ribchester parade helmet.

12.4 km NE

Roadside viewpoint on Longridge Fell with a sweep across the Ribble Valley to Pendle and the Bowland fells.

13 km NE

Tudor timbered hall with a great hammerbeam hall.

15.4 km SW

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

15.5 km SE

A Jesuit school behind a 16th-century gatehouse, its formal gardens and canals dating from about 1700.

17.2 km NE

Genteel Fylde-coast town with a windmill on the green, a wide seafront and Georgian Lytham Hall behind it.

17.4 km W · Lancashire

Ribble Valley country-house hotel and restaurant on the edge of the Forest of Bowland.

17.5 km E

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

17.6 km SE

Scattered West Pennine village below Rivington Pike, with a green, two churches and Lord Leverhulme's terraced gardens above.

17.7 km SE · Lancashire

Wetland centre with wintering swans and geese.

18.5 km SW

Slender three-storey folly tower on the Rivington Terraced Gardens ridge, a landmark of the West Pennine Moors.

18.6 km SE

Lord Leverhulme's atmospheric hillside gardens on Winter Hill, terraces and follies half-reclaimed by woodland.

18.8 km SE

Regenerated Edwardian boating lake and marine gardens on the Lytham St Annes seafront.

19.7 km W

Medieval Ribble Valley village of independent shops, a great railway viaduct and the ruins of Whalley Abbey.

20.8 km E · Lancashire

Tudor-fronted country house near Bashall Eaves, home to the Parker family for over five centuries.

21.2 km NE

Thomas Mawson laid out this 1926 park around a boating lake, Italian Garden and memorial tower.

21.8 km W

Bowland Brewery's cavernous beer hall at Holmes Mill, Clitheroe, with one of Britain's longest bars and brewery tours.

23.4 km NE

Dramatic high pass winding through the empty heart of the Bowland fells, likened to a slice of the Alps.

23.5 km NE

Tiny hilltop Norman keep over the Ribble Valley.

23.6 km NE

A whitewashed village local below Pendle Hill with a rotating cask range and a stream running past the door.

23.8 km NE

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

23.9 km W

Picture-postcard Ribble Valley village with a stream running beside the street, flower displays and the riverside Coronation Gardens.

23.9 km NE · Lancashire

The Leeds & Liverpool waterfront Orwell made shorthand for hard times, its old warehouses now the heart of a canalside quarter.

25 km S

Sea to source up the Ribble valley, from the marshes at Longton to the high fell country above Ribblehead.

1.2 km S · Lancashire, North Yorkshire & Cumbria

The lock-free coastal canal of the north-west, 41 miles on one level from Preston to Tewitfield with the sea often in view.

1.2 km W · Lancashire & Cumbria

Rural Fylde church whose churchyard holds the boulder-covered grave of the 'Fylde witch' Meg Shelton.

6 km NW

Traditional village pub in Goosnargh, known for hearty food and local ales.

7.2 km N

Big Samlesbury food hall with an in-house bakery, butcher, fishmonger, deli and forty ice-cream flavours.

7.8 km E