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.Places of Interest
Highlights include Rufford Old Hall and Rufford railway station.
Rufford Old Hall
Manor estate
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.
Rufford railway station
Railway station
Rufford railway station, opened on 2 April 1849, serves the village of Rufford in Lancashire, England. The station is south west of Preston on the Preston-Ormskirk branch service.
WWT Martin Mere
Nature reserve
WWT Martin Mere is a wetland nature reserve and wildfowl collection managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Tarlscough, Burscough, Lancashire, England, on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain, 6 miles from Ormskirk and 10 miles from Southport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sollom and Burscough.
Sollom
Hamlet
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.
Burscough
Town
Lathom
Village
Lathom is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, near Skelmersdale, about 3 miles east of Ormskirk. It is in the district of West Lancashire, and with the parish of Newburgh forms part of Newburgh ward. Lathom is situated 3½ miles south of Rufford.
Rufford
- Type: Locality
- Location: West Lancashire District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.6402° or 53° 38′ 25″ north
Longitude
-2.8425° or 2° 50′ 33″ west
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
Open location code
9C5VJ5R4+3X
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