Anderton
Anderton is a civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. It is now a suburb of Adlington, 5 miles northwest of Bolton. Within its boundaries are the Rivington Reservoirs.Photo: Margaret Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 1,330 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England
- Also known as: “Anderton, Lancashire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blackrod railway station and Rivington Hall Barn.
Blackrod railway station
Railway station
Photo: Paypwip, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blackrod railway station serves the towns of Blackrod and Horwich, Greater Manchester, England. It is 6.5 miles north west of Bolton railway station. It is just 1+1⁄4 miles from the town centre of Horwich - closer than Horwich Parkway station.
Rivington Hall Barn
Heritage site
Photo: Ruth Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rivington Hall Barn adjoins Rivington Hall in Rivington, Lancashire, near Chorley and Bolton. The Tithe barn foundation stones support a Medieval cruck construction and possibly date to the between the 9th and 15th centuries.
Great House Barn
Heritage site
Photo: Peter Hodge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great House Barn is a 16th-century barn and Listed building in Rivington, Lancashire, England. Built as a tithe barn it is believed to be one of the oldest of its type in the county and is a Grade II listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chorley and Horwich.
Chorley
Photo: jim walton, CC BY 3.0.
Chorley is a town in Lancashire, England, in the West Pennine Moors. Chorley describes itself as "Lancashire's Market Town". The markets take place most days, and continue to attract shoppers from around the local area.
Horwich
Town
Photo: Nicholasjf21, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bolton is a large town in Greater Manchester in northwest England, 17 miles north of Manchester city centre, with an industrial heritage of canals, coal, cotton and railways.
Adlington
Village
Adlington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, near the West Pennine Moors. It is 3 miles south of Chorley. It became a separate parish in 1842 then grew into a township around the textile and coal mining industries until these closed in the 1960s.
Anderton
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Chorley District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Anderton” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “এন্ডারটন”
- Bulgarian: “Андертон”
- Cebuano: “Anderton”
- Chinese: “安德頓”
- Chinese: “安德顿”
- Dutch: “Anderton”
- French: “Anderton”
- German: “Anderton”
- Gujarati: “એન્ડરટન”
- Irish: “Anderton”
- Japanese: “アンダートン”
- Kannada: “ಆಂಡರ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “앤더턴”
- Ladin: “Anderton”
- Lithuanian: “Andertonas”
- Polish: “Anderton”
- Portuguese: “Anderton”
- Russian: “Андертон”
- Spanish: “Anderton”
- Swedish: “Anderton”
- Tamil: “அன்டெர்டோன்”
- Telugu: “అండర్ టన్”
- Turkish: “Anderton, Lancashire”
- Urdu: “اینڈرٹن، لنکا شائر”
- Welsh: “Anderton, Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
- Welsh: “Anderton”
- “Anderton”
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