Poulton-le-Sands is a Village in the county of Lancashire.

Retail in Poulton-le-Sands

There are great places to visit near Poulton-le-Sands 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.

Poulton-le-Sands's best nearby towns can be found at Darwen, Chorley, Leyland, Nelson, Blackburn, Burnley, and Blackpool.

Ryal Fold, Tockholes, Brinscall, White Coppice, Heath Charnock, Higher Wheelton, and Ribchester are great places to visit near Poulton-le-Sands if you like villages.

Bold Venture Park, Sunnyhurst Wood, Astley Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, and Ball Grove Park are great places to visit near Poulton-le-Sands if you like parks.

Waterfalls to visit near Poulton-le-Sands include Bold Venture Waterfall, Sunnyhurst Waterfalls, Hatch Brook Waterfall, Holts Flat Waterfall, Lead Mines Clough Waterfall, Sheep Pen Waterfall, and Old Brooks Waterfall.

There are a several good woodlands in the Poulton-le-Sands area like Sunnyhurst Wood, Wheelton Plantation, High Bullough Wood, Back Plantation, Spen Wood, Duxbury Woods, and Longworth Clough.

Don't miss Sunnyhurst Brook, Hatch Brook, Dean Black Brook, Eller Brook, River Yarrow at Duxbury Woods, Ease Gill, and River Roddlesworth's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Poulton-le-Sands.

Don't miss 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's old mines if visiting the area around Poulton-le-Sands.

The area around Poulton-le-Sands features a number of interesting ruins including Old Lyons Colliery (ruin), Higher Pasture Barn (ruin), Ripping (ruin), Wheelton Plantation, Blackhurst (ruin), Heatherlea (ruin), and Shop Fold (ruin).

The area around Poulton-le-Sands features a number of interesting historic buildings including Church of Saint Stephen at Tockholes, Astley Hall, Chorley Lodge, Belmont Paper Mills (Derelict), Blacko Tower, The Wishing Well at Hollinshead Hall, and Hoghton Tower.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Poulton-le-Sands area like 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.

Don't miss Jubilee Tower, Bevis and the Ruined Summerhouse, and Cromwell's Bridge's historic monuments if visiting the area around Poulton-le-Sands.

The area around Poulton-le-Sands boasts some of the best hiking areas including Anglezarke, Lead Mines Clough, High Bullough Wood, Stronstrey Bank, Lister Mill Quarry, Great Hill, and White Coppice.

There are a several good hills in the Poulton-le-Sands area like Standing Stones Hill, Great Hill, Healey Nab, Spitlers Edge, Will Narr, Warton Crag, and Parlick.

Jepsons Gate Cairn is one of Poulton-le-Sands's best, nearby round cairns to visit in Poulton-le-Sands.

Poulton-le-Sands has some unmissable lakes nearby like High Bullough Reservoir, Anglezarke Reservoir, White Coppice Mill Pond, Big Lodge Water, Top Lodge, The Blue Lagoon, and Lower Ogden Reservoir.

The area around Poulton-le-Sands features a number of interesting bluebell woods including High Bullough Wood, Duxbury Woods, Hill Top Wood, Warton Crag, and Roddlesworth Woods.

There are a several good geological features in the Poulton-le-Sands area like Stronstrey Bank, White Coppice Quarry, Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement, and Sykes Mine.

Poulton-le-Sands's best nearby gardens can be found at The Evaders' Garden, Astley Walled Garden, and Hoghton Tower.

Yarrow Valley Country Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, Witton Country Park, Beacon Fell, Langroyd Country Park, and Wyre Estuary Country Park are some of Poulton-le-Sands best country parks to visit near Poulton-le-Sands.

Poulton-le-Sands's best nearby nature reserves can be found at Top Lodge, Longworth Clough, Leighton Moss, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Ball Grove Park, Upper Ball Grove Lodge, and Mere Sands Wood.

Don't miss Black Coppice Mill Stone Factory's historic sites if visiting the area around Poulton-le-Sands.

Canals to visit near Poulton-le-Sands include 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.

There are a number of roman sites near Poulton-le-Sands including Ribchester Roman Bath House, and Ribchester Roman Museum.

The area around Poulton-le-Sands features a number of interesting museums including Ribchester Roman Museum, The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, and Harris Museum - Art Gallery and Library Preston.

Don't miss Dog Holes Cave, Fairy Hole, and County Pot's caves if visiting the area around Poulton-le-Sands.

Limestone Pavements to visit near Poulton-le-Sands include Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement.

Warton Crag S.S.S.I, and West Pennine Moors are some of Poulton-le-Sands best sssis to visit near Poulton-le-Sands.

Blackpool, Half Moon Bay, The Shore (Bolton-le-Sands), and Hest Bank Wharf are great places to visit near Poulton-le-Sands if you like beaches.

The area around Poulton-le-Sands's best shopping centres can be found at The Concourse Shopping Centre.

The area around Poulton-le-Sands boasts some of the best cities including Preston, and Lancaster.

The area around Poulton-le-Sands's best castles can be found at Clitheroe Castle.

Poulton-le-Sands History

There are some historic monuments around Poulton-le-Sands:

• Kirkhead Cave
• Round cairn on Summerhouse Hill
• High cross in St Wilfrid's churchyard, Halton
• Part of a Roman fort and its associated vicus and remains of a pre-Conquest monastery and a Benedictine priory on Castle Hill
• Dog Holes Cave
• Warton Old Rectory
• Warton Crag small multivallate hillfort
• Skerton Bridge
• St Patrick's early Christian chapel and associated cemetery, Lower Heysham
• Cockersand Premonstratensian Abbey
• Badger Hole, Warton Crag
• Wraysholme Tower
• Torrisholme bowl barrow
• High cross in St Peter's churchyard, Heysham
• Glass melting and annealing workshop; part of Shrigley and Hunt's stained glass manufacturing workshops
• Castle Hill motte and bailey, Halton
• Stone circle on Summerhouse Hill
• Glasson Dock