Lancashire (England) : Ideas For Things To See And Do There

Lancashire, situated in the north west of England, is a county famed for its beautiful attractions. Perhaps the most famous attraction in Lancashire is the seaside resort of Blackpool. Blackpool is Britain’s number one vacation spot with over six million people a year visiting the town. Its Pleasure Beach and tower are two famous landmarks, with the Blackpool Illuminations light show attracting visitors in the fall. The town’s Golden Mile, may suit – a mile-long stretch of Las Vegas-style casino hotels situated along the seafront which has turned Blackpool into Britain’s home of the casino.

If you’re a fan of natural beauty, you’ll already know that Britain has hundreds of miles of beautiful rolling countryside on offer. The historic villages of Arnside and Silverdale, sat snugly on the coastline of Morecambe Bay, offer a range of woodlands, grasslands and salt marshes to explore and admire. Arnside has a number of gorgeous Victorian stores and traditional pubs where you can sample some English ales while looking out at the stunning scenery.

Pendle Hill, an isolated hill situated in the north east of Lancashire, is famous throughout America as the birthplace of the Quaker movement. It was here, in 1652, that George Fox claims to have been visited by God. Perhaps its most famous claim to fame, however, is through being the site of the Pendle witch trials – a seventeenth century trial in which ten people were found guilty of the murder of ten others through witchcraft.

If architecture and castles are more your thing, you may like to visit Hoghton Tower, to the east of the town of Preston. Hoghton dates back to the 12th century since the De Hoghton family began living at the house at the time of William the Conqueror. It is rumored that the sirloin steak was so named at Hoghton, when a visiting King James I was so impressed with a loin of steak that he had been served, he whipped out his sword and knighted it ‘Sir Loin’.

Vacationing in Britain is always great fun as the country is so diverse, and Lancashire is no different. In stark contrast to the busy seaside town of Blackpool, the Forest of Bowland offers 312 miles of unique scenery, most of it completely untouched since the medieval period. The Forest is home to a multitude of rare species and contains hundreds of 16th and 17th century stone buildings, dotted around the stunning Pennine landscape and rounding off this truly stunning selection of Lancashire attractions.

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