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, canals, roman sites, museums, caves, limestone pavements, sssis, beaches, shopping centres, cities and castles.

There are a number of towns near Lancaster including Darwen, Chorley, Leyland, Nelson, Blackburn, Burnley, and Blackpool.

Lancaster's best nearby villages can be found at Ryal Fold, Tockholes, Brinscall, White Coppice, Heath Charnock, Higher Wheelton, and Ribchester.

Lancaster's best nearby parks can be found at Bold Venture Park, Sunnyhurst Wood, Astley Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, and Ball Grove Park.

There are a several good waterfalls in the Lancaster area like Bold Venture Waterfall, Sunnyhurst Waterfalls, Hatch Brook Waterfall, Holts Flat Waterfall, Lead Mines Clough Waterfall, Sheep Pen Waterfall, and Old Brooks Waterfall.

The area around Lancaster features a number of interesting woodlands including Sunnyhurst Wood, Wheelton Plantation, High Bullough Wood, Back Plantation, Spen Wood, Duxbury Woods, and Longworth Clough.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the Lancaster area like 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 Lancaster if you like old mines.

There are a several good ruins in the Lancaster area 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 some of Lancaster best historic buildings to visit near Lancaster.

Don't miss 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's ancient sites if visiting the area around Lancaster.

Historic Monuments to visit near Lancaster include Jubilee Tower, Bevis and the Ruined Summerhouse, and Cromwell's Bridge.

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

The area around Lancaster boasts some of the best hills including Standing Stones Hill, Great Hill, Healey Nab, Spitlers Edge, Will Narr, Warton Crag, and Parlick.

Places near Lancaster feature a number of interesting round cairns including Jepsons Gate Cairn.

High Bullough Reservoir, Anglezarke Reservoir, White Coppice Mill Pond, Big Lodge Water, Top Lodge, The Blue Lagoon, and Lower Ogden Reservoir are some of Lancaster best lakes to visit near Lancaster.

High Bullough Wood, Duxbury Woods, Hill Top Wood, Warton Crag, and Roddlesworth Woods are great places to visit near Lancaster if you like bluebell woods.

The area around Lancaster boasts some of the best geological features including Stronstrey Bank, White Coppice Quarry, Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement, and Sykes Mine.

The area around Lancaster features a number of interesting gardens including The Evaders' Garden, Astley Walled Garden, and Hoghton Tower.

Lancaster has some unmissable country parks nearby 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 Lancaster best nature reserves to visit near Lancaster.

Lancaster is near some unmissable historic sites like Black Coppice Mill Stone Factory,

Lancaster 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.

Lancaster's best nearby roman sites can be found at Ribchester Roman Bath House, and Ribchester Roman Museum.

Don't miss Ribchester Roman Museum, The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, and Harris Museum - Art Gallery and Library Preston's museums if visiting the area around Lancaster.

The area around Lancaster 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 Lancaster like Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement.

Warton Crag S.S.S.I, and West Pennine Moors are some of Lancaster best sssis to visit near Lancaster.

Lancaster has some unmissable beaches nearby like Blackpool, and Half Moon Bay.

Shopping Centres to visit near Lancaster include The Concourse Shopping Centre.

Lancaster's best nearby cities can be found at Preston, and Lancaster.

Castles to visit near Lancaster include Clitheroe Castle.

Lancaster History

There are some historic monuments around Lancaster:

• Warton Old Rectory
• Torrisholme bowl barrow
• 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
• High cross in St Wilfrid's churchyard, Halton
• Skerton Bridge
• Roman kilns 25yds (20m) NE of Fairyhill Cottage
• Castle Hill motte and bailey, Halton
• Glasson Dock
• Cockersand Premonstratensian Abbey
• Askew Heights univallate prehistoric defended enclosure and hollow way
• Part of a Roman fort and its associated vicus and remains of a pre-Conquest monastery and a Benedictine priory on Castle Hill