Greaves is a Area in the county of Lancashire.

Retail in Greaves

There are great places to visit near Greaves 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.

Towns to visit near Greaves include Darwen, Chorley, Leyland, Nelson, Blackburn, Burnley, and Blackpool.

There are a several good villages in the Greaves area like Ryal Fold, Tockholes, Brinscall, White Coppice, Heath Charnock, Higher Wheelton, and Ribchester.

The area around Greaves features a number of interesting parks including Bold Venture Park, Sunnyhurst Wood, Astley Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, and Ball Grove Park.

The area around Greaves features a number of interesting waterfalls including Bold Venture Waterfall, Sunnyhurst Waterfalls, Hatch Brook Waterfall, Holts Flat Waterfall, Lead Mines Clough Waterfall, Sheep Pen Waterfall, and Old Brooks Waterfall.

Sunnyhurst Wood, Wheelton Plantation, High Bullough Wood, Back Plantation, Spen Wood, Duxbury Woods, and Longworth Clough are great places to visit near Greaves if you like woodlands.

The area around Greaves features a number of interesting rivers and streams including Sunnyhurst Brook, Hatch Brook, Dean Black Brook, Eller Brook, River Yarrow at Duxbury Woods, Ease Gill, and River Roddlesworth.

The area around Greaves features a number of interesting old mines 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.

Greaves 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).

Greaves's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Church of Saint Stephen at Tockholes, Astley Hall, Chorley Lodge, Blacko Tower, The Wishing Well at Hollinshead Hall, Hoghton Tower, and Stonyhurst College.

The area around Greaves features a number of interesting ancient sites 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.

Greaves's best nearby historic monuments can be found at 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 great places to visit near Greaves if you like hiking areas.

Greaves's best nearby hills can be found at Standing Stones Hill, Great Hill, Healey Nab, Spitlers Edge, Will Narr, Warton Crag, and Parlick.

The area around Greaves's best round cairns can be found at Jepsons Gate Cairn.

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

There are a several good bluebell woods in the Greaves area like High Bullough Wood, Duxbury Woods, Hill Top Wood, Warton Crag, and Roddlesworth Woods.

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 Greaves.

Gardens to visit near Greaves include The Evaders' Garden, Astley Walled Garden, and Hoghton Tower.

There are a several good country parks in the Greaves area like Yarrow Valley Country Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, Witton Country Park, Beacon Fell, Langroyd Country Park, and Wyre Estuary Country Park.

Top Lodge, Longworth Clough, Leighton Moss, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Ball Grove Park, Upper Ball Grove Lodge, and Mere Sands Wood are some of Greaves best nature reserves to visit near Greaves.

There are a several good historic sites in the area around Greaves like Black Coppice Mill Stone Factory.

Greaves 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.

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

Greaves's best nearby museums can be found at Ribchester Roman Museum, The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, and Harris Museum - Art Gallery and Library Preston.

Greaves's best nearby caves can be found at Dog Holes Cave, Fairy Hole, and County Pot.

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

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

Blackpool, and Half Moon Bay are great places to visit near Greaves if you like beaches.

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

There are a number of cities near Greaves including Preston, and Lancaster.

Don't miss Clitheroe Castle's castles if visiting the area around Greaves.

Greaves History

There are some historic monuments around Greaves:

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