Skelmersdale is a Town in the county of Lancashire.

Skelmersdale postcode: WN8 6ES

Retail in Skelmersdale

There are great places to visit near Skelmersdale 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, canals, roman sites, museums, caves, limestone pavements, sssis, beaches, attractions, shopping centres, cities and castles.

Darwen, Chorley, Leyland, Nelson, Blackburn, Burnley, and Blackpool are great places to visit near Skelmersdale if you like towns.

The area around Skelmersdale features a number of interesting villages including Ryal Fold, Tockholes, Brinscall, White Coppice, Heath Charnock, Higher Wheelton, and Ribchester.

There are a several good parks in the Skelmersdale area like Bold Venture Park, Sunnyhurst Wood, Astley Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, and Ball Grove Park.

Waterfalls to visit near Skelmersdale include Bold Venture Waterfall, Sunnyhurst Waterfalls, Hatch Brook Waterfall, Holts Flat Waterfall, Lead Mines Clough Waterfall, Sheep Pen Waterfall, and Old Brooks Waterfall.

There are a several good woodlands in the Skelmersdale area like Sunnyhurst Wood, Wheelton Plantation, High Bullough Wood, Back Plantation, Spen Wood, Duxbury Woods, and Longworth Clough.

There are a number of rivers and streams near Skelmersdale including Sunnyhurst Brook, Hatch Brook, Dean Black Brook, Eller Brook, River Yarrow at Duxbury Woods, Ease Gill, and River Roddlesworth.

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 are great places to visit near Skelmersdale if you like old mines.

Old Lyons Colliery (ruin), Higher Pasture Barn (ruin), Ripping (ruin), Wheelton Plantation, Blackhurst (ruin), Heatherlea (ruin), and Shop Fold (ruin) are great places to visit near Skelmersdale if you like ruins.

The area around Skelmersdale boasts some of the best historic buildings including Church of Saint Stephen at Tockholes, Astley Hall, Chorley Lodge, Belmont Paper Mills (Derelict), Blacko Tower, The Wishing Well at Hollinshead Hall, and Hoghton Tower.

Skelmersdale's best nearby ancient sites can be found at 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.

Jubilee Tower, Bevis and the Ruined Summerhouse, and Cromwell's Bridge are great places to visit near Skelmersdale if you like historic monuments.

There are a number of hiking areas near Skelmersdale including Anglezarke, Lead Mines Clough, High Bullough Wood, Stronstrey Bank, Lister Mill Quarry, Great Hill, and White Coppice.

There are a several good hills in the Skelmersdale area like Standing Stones Hill, Great Hill, Healey Nab, Spitlers Edge, Will Narr, Warton Crag, and Parlick.

There are a several good round cairns in the area around Skelmersdale like Jepsons Gate Cairn.

There are a number of lakes near Skelmersdale including High Bullough Reservoir, Anglezarke Reservoir, White Coppice Mill Pond, Big Lodge Water, Top Lodge, The Blue Lagoon, and Lower Ogden Reservoir.

The area around Skelmersdale boasts some of the best bluebell woods including High Bullough Wood, Duxbury Woods, Hill Top Wood, Warton Crag, and Roddlesworth Woods.

There are a number of geological features near Skelmersdale including Stronstrey Bank, White Coppice Quarry, Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement, Sykes Mine, and The Great Stone of Fourstones.

The Evaders' Garden, Astley Walled Garden, and Hoghton Tower are some of Skelmersdale best gardens to visit near Skelmersdale.

Skelmersdale's best nearby country parks can be found at Yarrow Valley Country Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, Witton Country Park, Beacon Fell, Langroyd Country Park, and Wyre Estuary Country Park.

The area around Skelmersdale boasts some of the best nature reserves including Top Lodge, Longworth Clough, Leighton Moss, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Ball Grove Park, Upper Ball Grove Lodge, and Mere Sands Wood.

Places near Skelmersdale feature a number of interesting historic sites including Black Coppice Mill Stone Factory.

Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Heath Charnock, Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Higher Wheelton, 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 are some of Skelmersdale best canals to visit near Skelmersdale.

The area around Skelmersdale boasts some of the best roman sites including Ribchester Roman Bath House, and Ribchester Roman Museum.

The area around Skelmersdale boasts some of the best museums including Ribchester Roman Museum, The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, and Harris Museum - Art Gallery and Library Preston.

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

There are a several good limestone pavements in the area around Skelmersdale like Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement.

Skelmersdale has some unmissable sssis nearby like Warton Crag S.S.S.I, and West Pennine Moors.

Beaches to visit near Skelmersdale include Blackpool, Half Moon Bay, The Shore (Bolton-le-Sands), and Hest Bank Wharf.

Attractions to visit near Skelmersdale include Madame Tussauds Blackpool, The Big One, and Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

Places near Skelmersdale feature a number of interesting shopping centres including The Concourse Shopping Centre.

There are a several good cities in the Skelmersdale area like Preston, and Lancaster.

Places near Skelmersdale feature a number of interesting castles including Clitheroe Castle.

Skelmersdale History

There are some historic monuments around Skelmersdale:

• Moated site at Bickerstaffe Hall.
• Cross Hall moated site
• Mossborough Hall moated site
• Roman Fort and sections of Roman Roads
• Burscough Augustinian Priory
• Winstanley moated site and five fishponds
• Ruins of the chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury in the Roman Catholic cemetery in Windlehurst
• Up Holland Benedictine priory
• Standing cross south of the chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury in the cemetery at Windlehurst
• Rufford moated site
• Boar's Den bowl barrow
• Earthworks in Spa Roughs Wood
• Bradley Hall, moated site, fishponds and connecting channels