Castle and Priory Precinct is a Area in the county of Lancashire.

Retail in Castle and Priory Precinct

There are great places to visit near Castle and Priory Precinct 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, shopping centres, cities and castles.

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

Castle and Priory Precinct has some unmissable villages nearby like Ryal Fold, Tockholes, Brinscall, White Coppice, Heath Charnock, Higher Wheelton, and Ribchester.

There are a several good parks in the Castle and Priory Precinct area like 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 Castle and Priory Precinct.

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

Rivers and Streams to visit near Castle and Priory Precinct include Sunnyhurst Brook, Hatch Brook, Dean Black Brook, Eller Brook, River Yarrow at Duxbury Woods, Ease Gill, and River Roddlesworth.

Don't miss 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's old mines if visiting the area around Castle and Priory Precinct.

Castle and Priory Precinct 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).

Don't miss Church of Saint Stephen at Tockholes, Astley Hall, Chorley Lodge, Blacko Tower, The Wishing Well at Hollinshead Hall, Hoghton Tower, and Stonyhurst College's historic buildings if visiting the area around Castle and Priory Precinct.

There are a number of ancient sites near Castle and Priory Precinct including 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.

The area around Castle and Priory Precinct features a number of interesting historic monuments including Jubilee Tower, Bevis and the Ruined Summerhouse, and Cromwell's Bridge.

Anglezarke, Lead Mines Clough, High Bullough Wood, Stronstrey Bank, Lister Mill Quarry, Great Hill, and White Coppice are some of Castle and Priory Precinct best hiking areas to visit near Castle and Priory Precinct.

Standing Stones Hill, Great Hill, Healey Nab, Spitlers Edge, Will Narr, Warton Crag, and Parlick are some of Castle and Priory Precinct best hills to visit near Castle and Priory Precinct.

There are a number of round cairns near to Castle and Priory Precinct including Jepsons Gate Cairn.

Lakes to visit near Castle and Priory Precinct include High Bullough Reservoir, Anglezarke Reservoir, White Coppice Mill Pond, Big Lodge Water, Top Lodge, The Blue Lagoon, and Lower Ogden Reservoir.

Don't miss High Bullough Wood, Duxbury Woods, Hill Top Wood, Warton Crag, and Roddlesworth Woods's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Castle and Priory Precinct.

Don't miss Stronstrey Bank, White Coppice Quarry, Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement, and Sykes Mine's geological features if visiting the area around Castle and Priory Precinct.

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

The area around Castle and Priory Precinct boasts some of the best country parks including 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 Castle and Priory Precinct features a number of interesting nature reserves including Top Lodge, Longworth Clough, Leighton Moss, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Ball Grove Park, Upper Ball Grove Lodge, and Mere Sands Wood.

The area around Castle and Priory Precinct's best historic sites can be found at Black Coppice Mill Stone Factory.

Castle and Priory Precinct has some unmissable canals nearby like 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.

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

Museums to visit near Castle and Priory Precinct include Ribchester Roman Museum, The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, and Harris Museum - Art Gallery and Library Preston.

There are a several good caves in the Castle and Priory Precinct area like Dog Holes Cave, Fairy Hole, and County Pot.

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

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

Don't miss Blackpool, and Half Moon Bay's beaches if visiting the area around Castle and Priory Precinct.

There are a number of shopping centres near to Castle and Priory Precinct including The Concourse Shopping Centre.

Cities to visit near Castle and Priory Precinct include Preston, and Lancaster.

The area around Castle and Priory Precinct's best castles can be found at Clitheroe Castle.

Castle and Priory Precinct History

There are some historic monuments around Castle and Priory Precinct:

• Badger Hole, Warton Crag
• Askew Heights univallate prehistoric defended enclosure and hollow way
• Round cairn 230m east of Manor Farm
• Cockersand Premonstratensian Abbey
• Skerton Bridge
• St Patrick's early Christian chapel and associated cemetery, Lower Heysham
• Glasson Dock
• Warton Crag small multivallate hillfort
• Glass melting and annealing workshop; part of Shrigley and Hunt's stained glass manufacturing workshops
• Castle Hill motte and bailey, Halton
• Castle Hill motte, Dolphinholme
• Roman kilns 25yds (20m) NE of Fairyhill Cottage
• High cross in St Peter's churchyard, Heysham
• Part of a Roman fort and its associated vicus and remains of a pre-Conquest monastery and a Benedictine priory on Castle Hill
• High cross in St Wilfrid's churchyard, Halton
• Warton Old Rectory
• Torrisholme bowl barrow
• Remains of the gas plant, chimney, wheel pit and mill race of Dolphinholme Worsted Mill