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Lancashire Events

January
British Homing World Show of the Year
Obsession - Festival Of Food & Wine
February
Half Term at Drumcroon
Showzam Festival
March
Championship Cat Show Preston & Blackpool Cat Club
Easter Sunday Funday and Farmers Market/Craft Fair
Ramsbottom Chocolate Festival
April
Classic Bike Show
Clitheroe Chic Vintique Fair
Continental Market
Great Lancashire Wedding Show
Holcombe Egg Rolling
Lancashire Food Festival
Nutters Dance
Rainbow Ramble
May
Charity Rocks
Chipping Steam Fair
Cuerden Valley Fair
Electric Garden Progressive Rock Festival
Garden & Craft Fair
Garstang Walking Festival
Lancashire & Ribble Valley Garden & Countryside Festival
Lancaster Unlocked
Nigel Haworth’s Fantastic Food Show
Pleasure Fair
Puppet Up!
Steam Days
Volksdevil Annual Gathering
June
Balloon & Fireworks Festival
Bowland Festival
Lune Valley Country Fair
Preston Riversway Festival
Slaidburn Steam Rally
Todmorden Agricultural Show
Totally Transport
Wyre Cycling Festival
July
Balloon & Fireworks Festival
Body Mind & Spirit
Bowland Challenge
Caribbean Carnival
Charity Rocks Festival
Cleveleys Sea Festival
Clitheroe Area WI Show
Fleetwood Bowling Festival
Fleetwood Tram & Transport Festival
Food and Craft Fair
Fylde Vintage Weekend & Farm Show
Garstang Classic Vehicle Show & Steam Rally
Goosnargh & Longridge Agricultural Show
Great Eccleston Agricultural Show
Jazz Day
Manor Farm Music Festival
Preston Mela
Ribble Valley International Piano Festival
RIBFEST
Roman Re-enactments
Royal Lancashire Show
Saddleworth Folk Festival
The Beat Herder Festival
Tockholes Village Gala
Waterfront Wind and Wave Festival
Wigan International Jazz Festival
Wolfwood Fun Dog Show
August
7 Parks Walk
Abbey Fair
Allotments and Leisure Garden Show
Chipping Agricultural Show
Clitheroe Cycling Grand Prix
Exploring Blackpool’s Beach
Extreme Sports Weekend
Galloways Antiques Fair
Garden & Craft Show
Garstang Arts & Music Festival
Garstang Show
Last Night of the Proms
Longest Razor Shell Competition
Pendle Walking Festival
Pennine Lancashire Festival of Food & Culture
Pressed English Cider Festival
Preston Mela
Saddleworth Rushcart Festival
Steam Days
Tractor Pulling Championships
Under the Sea Family Fun
Wyre Estuary Country Park Open Day
September
Blackpool Illuminations
Clitheroe Chic Vintique Fair
Fleetwood Music and Arts Festival
Fylde Folk Festival
Guy'- Murphy's Oyster Festival
Heritage Open Days
Hodder Valley Show
Lancashire Pot Fair
Lancaster Jazz Festival
Pendle Walking Festival
Pennine Lancashire Festival of Food & Culture
Ramsbottom Festival
Roots 666
Steam Days
The World Black Pudding Throwing Championship
October
Blackpool Illuminations
Continental Market
Fleetwood Drama Festival
Halloween Tours
Scare Kingdom Scream Park
Spooktacular Playscheme
November
Annual Fireworks Spectacular & Beacon Lighting
British National Dance Championships
Christmas Food and Craft Fair
Oktoberfest
Scare Kingdom Scream Park
December
Freeport Fleetwood Christmas bonanza!
Garstang Victorian Christmas Festival
Whalley Pickwick Festival

126 Places to Visit in Lancashire | Directory

Situated in Englands North West, Lancashire is a lovely county with plenty of opportunities for great day trips. Steeped in heritage and tradition,the area has attractions that are ancient and industrial, small and grand. Notable places to visit include Lancaster, The Ribble Valley, Pendle Hill, glitzy Blackpool and the vast expanse of Morecambe Bay

Accrington | Ashton-under-Lyne | Barnoldswick | Blackburn | Blackpool | Bolton | Burnley | Bury | Carnforth | Chipping | Chorley | Claughton-on-Brock | Clitheroe | Colne | Fleetwood | Garstang | Horwich | Lancaster | Leigh | Littleborough | Lytham St Annes | Mawdesley | Nelson | Oldham | Ormskirk | Peel | Preston | Rawtenstall | Rochdale | Rossendale | Scorton | Skelmersdale | Southport | Thornton Cleveleys | Wigan

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Birthplace of: Richard Arkwright, Robert Peel, Dame Thora Hird, Geoff Hurst, Lynda La Plante, Ian McKellen, Eric Morecambe, Sir Richard Owen, Nick Park, Cecil Parkinson, Rodney Porter, Anthony Quayle, John Simpson, Ronald Stevenson, Eric Sykes, Sir Henry Tate, Francis Thompson, Pauline Tinsley, Dame Eva Turner, William Walton, Vincent Wigglesworth, Alison Wilding, Victoria Wood, David Atherton, J L Austin, Margaret Beckett, Teresa Billington-Greig, Laurence Binyon, Harrison Birtwistle, Phyllis Bone, Cherie Booth, John Bright, Sir John Charnley, Kathleen Ferrier, Tom Finney, Bill Beaumont, Andrew Flintoff, Alan Ball, Ron Greenwood, Richard Ashcroft, Mary Peters, Steve Coogan, Will Greenwood, Amir Khan, David Platt, Roy Broadbent Fuller, John Glubb, James Hargreaves, Reg Harris, Judith Hart, Zoe Ball, Carl Fogarty, Sarah Cox, Lee Jasper, Peter Kay, Vernon Kay, Matthew Kelly, Ralf Little, Mystic Meg, Anne Robinson, Phillip Schofield, Melanie Sykes, Ricky Tomlinson, Jane Horrocks, Harold Harwood, Norman Haworth, James Hilton, Johnathan Culshaw, Edmund Hirst, Susan Isaacs, Betty Jackson, James Jeans, John Kay, Annie Kenney, Eric Laithwaite, William Lassell, John Lawton, John Leland, John Lennard-Jones, William Leverhulme, John Mercer, Cyril Norwood, C K Ogden, Robin Philipson, Harry Pollitt, John Poynting, Ian Ramsey, Alan Rawsthorne, Molly Reibey, Samuel Ryder, Albert Seward, Nigel Short, Myles Standish, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Wayne Hemmingway, Mark Owen, Michael Atherton, Lisa Riley, Samuel Crompton, Richmal Crompton, Lionel Morton, Ian McShane, Robert Shaw, Prof. Brian Cox, Paddy McGuinness, James Anderson, Alfred Wainwright, Lee Dixon, Steven Burke, Samantha Murray, Alfie Boe, Simon Yates,

Accrington

Ashton-under-Lyne

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Blackburn

Blackpool

Bolton

Burnley

Bury

Carnforth

Chipping

Chorley

Claughton-on-Brock

Clitheroe

Colne

Fleetwood

Garstang

Horwich

Lancaster

Leigh

Littleborough

Lytham St Annes

Mawdesley

Nelson

Oldham

Ormskirk

Peel

Preston

Rawtenstall

Rochdale

Rossendale

Scorton

Skelmersdale

Southport

Thornton Cleveleys

Wigan

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