Blackburn

Museum of Wigan Life

Scholes Village · 16 miles

The Museum of Wigan Life is a public museum and local history resource centre in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The nineteenth-century listed building is by the noted architect Alfred Waterhouse. It originally housed Wigan Library, where George Orwell researched his book The Road to Wigan Pier in 1936.

Lancashire Mining Museum

Lower Green · 17 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.

Lord Ellesmere's Memorial

Boothstown · 17 miles

Jubilee Gardens

Oswaldtwistle · 3.7 miles

Opened by Councillor Peter Britcliffe June 2004 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Gatty Park

Acre · 4.3 miles

Awarded a Green Flag for 2016 - 2017 Gatty Park BB5 4AE is around 3 hectares and situated to the north of Hyndburn Road in the township of Church. Gatty Park was formerly the grounds of Elmfield Hall owned by the Gatty Family. The park has four entrance

Peel Monument

Huncoat · 5.6 miles

Just after the start of the 1900s, land owned by the Peel family was donated to the people of Accrington by William Peel. Although he lived at Knowlmere Manor in the Hodder Valley, his family had a long association with Accrington, having been pioneers of