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Atherton
Greater Manchester, North West · population 22,000 · Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Days out & attractions in Atherton
Days out around Atherton – lakes, viewpoints, hills, nature reserves and more, including 2 in Atherton itself. Each comes with a description, photo, address and map where available.
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🏞️ Lakes & lochs
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🌄 Viewpoints
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⛰️ Hills & peaks
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🌿 Nature reserves
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🏛️ Museums
Lancashire Mining Museum
Lower Green · 2.5 miles
A former deep-coal mine on the edge of the Bridgewater Canal now operates as a heritage museum, offering insight into the Lancashire Coalfield’s industrial past. Situated on a 15-acre site near the village of Lower Green in Greater Manchester, the attraction is run by the Red Rose Steam Society and is listed under the name Lancashire Mining Museum. Visitors can view the only surviving pit headgear on the Lancashire Coalfield—a wrought-iron lattice structure rising almost 30 metres, built by Head Wrightson of Stockton-on-Tees in 1912—and the adjoining engine house that houses the largest steam winding engine ever used on the coalfield, a 3,300 horse-power twin-tandem compound unit supplied by Yates & Thom of Blackburn. The museum’s collection includes twenty-eight colliery locomotives, described by sources as the most extensive assemblage of its kind in the United Kingdom, and a short restored railway line of roughly 200 metres. As of 2019, one locomotive on this line was operational, with another undergoing essential maintenance before passenger services can resume. The site’s history stretches back to shaft sinking in 1908 by the Pilkington Colliery Company, production from 1912, amalgamation into Manchester Collieries in 1928, modernisation after nationalisation in 1947, and closure in 1970 before its conversion to a public museum. Opening times are published on the museum’s listing, and the venue is classified as a history museum, providing a tangible link to the region’s mining heritage.
Tu 13:00-16:00; Th 13:00-16:00; Sa-Su 13:00-16:00
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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🌳 Parks & gardens
Public Toilets
Westleigh · 1.2 miles
Toilet operated by volunteers. Open most week ends but limited openings during the week due risk of damage.
Sa-Su 10:30 - 16:30
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🏊 Lidos & swimming pools
The Pelican Centre
Astley Green · 1.2 miles
Castle Street, Tyldesley M29 8EG
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🗿 Monuments & memorials
Wood End Pit AKA Bedford Colliery marker stone, former coal mine.
Higher Folds · 1.2 miles
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🏚️ Ruins
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🏺 Archaeological sites
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🖼️ Galleries
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🛝 Playgrounds
Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Distances are as the crow flies from Atherton.
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