Rufford
Rufford is a village in West Lancashire, England, where the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway, the A59 and the River Douglas meet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,420 residents
- Description: village in West Lancashire, England
- Also known as: “Rufford, Lancashire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hesketh Arms and Rufford Old Hall.
Rufford Old Hall
Manor estate
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Rufford Old Hall is a National Trust property in Rufford, Lancashire, in north-west England. Built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth centuries for the Hesketh family, only the great hall survives from the original structure.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sollom and Bispham Green.
Sollom
Hamlet
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Sollom is a hamlet in the parish of Tarleton, in Lancashire, England. It lies south of Tarleton and north of Rufford on the A59 road, giving the village good links to Preston, Southport and Liverpool. Sollom is situated 2 miles north of Rufford.
Bispham Green
Village
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Bispham Green is a village in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. It is 1 mile south of Mawdesley and less than 1 mile north of Parbold. Bispham Green is situated 2 miles southeast of Rufford.
Hoscar
Village
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Hoscar is a small village in Lancashire, England. It is located 1¼ miles east of the larger village of Burscough. Hoscar is situated 2½ miles south of Rufford.
Rufford
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Rufford, West Lancashire District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.6332° or 53° 37′ 60″ northLongitude
-2.8169° or 2° 49′ 1″ westPopulation
1,420Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)Open location code
9C5VJ5MM+76OpenStreetMap ID
node 29393739OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638981Wikidata ID
Q2330263
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Rufford” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rufford (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Lancashire)”
- Cebuano: “Rufford”
- Dutch: “Rufford”
- French: “Rufford”
- Irish: “Rufford”
- Italian: “Rufford”
- Ladin: “Rufford (Lancashire)”
- Ladin: “Rufford”
- Persian: “رافورد، لانکاشر”
- Polish: “Rufford”
- Spanish: “Rufford”
- Swedish: “Rufford (parish i Storbritannien, Lancashire)”
- Swedish: “Rufford, Lancashire”
- Turkish: “Rufford, Lancashire”
- Welsh: “Rufford, Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
- “Rufford”
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