Lancaster is a City in the county of Lancashire.

Retail in Lancaster

There are great places to visit near Lancaster including some great towns, villages, parks, waterfalls, woodlands, rivers and streams, old mines, ruins, historic buildings, ancient sites, historic monuments, hiking areas, hills, round cairns, lakes, bluebell woods, geological features, gardens, country parks, nature reserves, historic sites, roman sites, museums, caves, limestone pavements, sssis, canals, beaches, shopping centres, cities and castles.

Don't miss Darwen, Chorley, Leyland, Nelson, Blackburn, Burnley, and Blackpool's towns if visiting the area around Lancaster.

Lancaster's best nearby villages can be found at Ryal Fold, Tockholes, Brinscall, White Coppice, Ribchester, Belmont, and Chipping.

Parks to visit near Lancaster include Bold Venture Park, Sunnyhurst Wood, Astley Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, and Ball Grove Park.

Don't miss Bold Venture Waterfall, Sunnyhurst Waterfalls, Hatch Brook Waterfall, Holts Flat Waterfall, Lead Mines Clough Waterfall, Sheep Pen Waterfall, and Old Brooks Waterfall's waterfalls if visiting the area around Lancaster.

Lancaster's best nearby woodlands can be found at Sunnyhurst Wood, Wheelton Plantation, High Bullough Wood, Back Plantation, Spen Wood, Duxbury Woods, and Longworth Clough.

Sunnyhurst Brook, Hatch Brook, Dean Black Brook, Eller Brook, River Yarrow at Duxbury Woods, Ease Gill, and River Roddlesworth are great places to visit near Lancaster if you like rivers and streams.

There are a number of old mines near Lancaster including Old Lyons Colliery (ruin), Lead Mines Clough Lead Mines, Coppice Stile Lead Mine Trial, White Coppice Lead Mine, Duxbury Park Colliery (ruin), Ellerbeck Collieries (ruin), and Sykes Mine.

Lancaster has some unmissable ruins nearby like Old Lyons Colliery (ruin), Higher Pasture Barn (ruin), Ripping (ruin), Wheelton Plantation, Blackhurst (ruin), Heatherlea (ruin), and Shop Fold (ruin).

Church of Saint Stephen at Tockholes, Astley Hall, Chorley Lodge, Blacko Tower, The Wishing Well at Hollinshead Hall, Hoghton Tower, and Stonyhurst College are great places to visit near Lancaster if you like historic buildings.

Ancient Sites to visit near Lancaster include Church of Saint Stephen at Tockholes, The Quernmore Burial, Standing Stones Hill, Pikestones Chambered Long Cairn, Jepsons Gate Cairn, Black Coppice Chambered Cairn, and Dog Holes Cave.

Don't miss Jubilee Tower, Bevis and the Ruined Summerhouse, and Cromwell's Bridge's historic monuments if visiting the area around Lancaster.

Hiking Areas to visit near Lancaster include Anglezarke, Lead Mines Clough, High Bullough Wood, Stronstrey Bank, Lister Mill Quarry, Great Hill, and White Coppice.

There are a number of hills near Lancaster including Standing Stones Hill, Great Hill, Healey Nab, Spitlers Edge, Will Narr, Warton Crag, and Parlick.

There are a number of round cairns near to Lancaster including Jepsons Gate Cairn.

Lancaster has some unmissable lakes nearby like High Bullough Reservoir, Anglezarke Reservoir, White Coppice Mill Pond, Big Lodge Water, Top Lodge, The Blue Lagoon, and Lower Ogden Reservoir.

The area around Lancaster features a number of interesting bluebell woods including High Bullough Wood, Duxbury Woods, Hill Top Wood, Warton Crag, and Roddlesworth Woods.

There are a several good geological features in the Lancaster area like Stronstrey Bank, White Coppice Quarry, Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement, and Sykes Mine.

There are a several good gardens in the Lancaster area like The Evaders' Garden, Astley Walled Garden, and Hoghton Tower.

There are a number of country parks near Lancaster including Yarrow Valley Country Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, Witton Country Park, Beacon Fell, Langroyd Country Park, and Wyre Estuary Country Park.

There are a several good nature reserves in the Lancaster area like Top Lodge, Longworth Clough, Leighton Moss, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Ball Grove Park, Upper Ball Grove Lodge, and Mere Sands Wood.

Black Coppice Mill Stone Factory is a great place to visit close to Lancaster if you like historic sites.

Ribchester Roman Bath House, and Ribchester Roman Museum are some of Lancaster best roman sites to visit near Lancaster.

Ribchester Roman Museum, The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, and Harris Museum - Art Gallery and Library Preston are great places to visit near Lancaster if you like museums.

The area around Lancaster features a number of interesting caves including Dog Holes Cave, Fairy Hole, and County Pot.

Places near Lancaster feature a number of interesting limestone pavements including Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement.

The area around Lancaster boasts some of the best sssis including Warton Crag S.S.S.I, and West Pennine Moors.

There are a several good canals in the Lancaster area like Leeds and Liverpool Canal - Summit to Wigan Section, Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Adlington, Lancaster Canal at Bolton-le-Sands, and Leeds and Liverpool Canal - Rufford Branch.

There are a several good beaches in the Lancaster area like Blackpool, and Half Moon Bay.

The Concourse Shopping Centre is one of Lancaster's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Lancaster.

The area around Lancaster boasts some of the best cities including Preston, and Lancaster.

There are a number of castles near to Lancaster including Clitheroe Castle.

Lancaster History

There are some historic monuments around Lancaster:

• High cross in St Wilfrid's churchyard, Halton
• Cockersand Premonstratensian Abbey
• Remains of the gas plant, chimney, wheel pit and mill race of Dolphinholme Worsted Mill
• Castle Hill motte, Dolphinholme
• Warton Crag small multivallate hillfort
• Glass melting and annealing workshop; part of Shrigley and Hunt's stained glass manufacturing workshops
• Part of a Roman fort and its associated vicus and remains of a pre-Conquest monastery and a Benedictine priory on Castle Hill
• Torrisholme bowl barrow
• Skerton Bridge
• Roman kilns 25yds (20m) NE of Fairyhill Cottage
• Castle Hill motte and bailey, Halton
• Glasson Dock
• Askew Heights univallate prehistoric defended enclosure and hollow way
• Warton Old Rectory