Wiswell
Wiswell is a small village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, close to Whalley and Clitheroe at the foot of Wiswell Moor. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 967.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Charles Rawding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 288 residents
- Description: village in Lancashire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Wiswell, Lancashire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whalley railway station and Church of St Mary and All Saints, Whalley.
Whalley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whalley railway station serves the village of Whalley in Lancashire, England. The station lies on the Ribble Valley Line 7+1⁄4 miles north of Blackburn.
Church of St Mary and All Saints, Whalley
Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Mary and All Saints is an Anglican church in the village of Whalley, Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn.
Whalley Abbey
Ruins
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whalley Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in Whalley, Lancashire, England. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the abbey was largely demolished and a country house was built on the site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whalley and Great Mitton.
Whalley
Village
Photo: Craigthornber, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whalley is a village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley on the banks of the River Calder in Lancashire, England. It is overlooked by Whalley Nab, a large wooded hill over the river from the village.
Great Mitton
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Mitton is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It is separated from the civil parish of Little Mitton by the River Ribble, both lie about three miles from the town of Clitheroe. Great Mitton is situated 2 miles northwest of Wiswell.
Clitheroe
Photo: ClemRutter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Clitheroe is an attractive market town in the Ribble Valley in East Lancashire. It has a Norman castle guarding the transport route along the valley, and is a good base for exploring the Forest of Bowland to the north.
Wiswell
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Wiswell, Ribble Valley District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.83249° or 53° 49′ 57″ northLongitude
-2.38816° or 2° 23′ 17″ westPopulation
288Elevation
436 feet (133 metres)Open location code
9C5VRJJ6+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 30099950OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12265810Wikidata ID
Q2190788
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Wiswell” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wiswell”
- Dutch: “Wiswell”
- French: “Wiswell”
- Irish: “Wiswell”
- Italian: “Wiswell”
- Ladin: “Wiswell”
- Persian: “ویسول”
- Polish: “Wiswell”
- Swedish: “Wiswell”
- Turkish: “Wiswell”
- Welsh: “Wiswell”
- “Wiswell”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wiswell”. Photo: Charles Rawding, CC BY-SA 2.0.