North West England
Lancashire
Chorley District

Chorley

Chorley is a town in , , 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Chorley railway station and Astley Hall.

Railway station
Photo: Roger May, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Chorley in , England. Since 2004 it has been linked with Chorley Interchange bus and coach station. It is on the Manchester–Preston line.

Museum
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is a country house in Chorley, , England. The building is now owned by the town and is known as Museum and Art Gallery. The extensive landscaped grounds are now Chorley's Astley Park.

Hospital
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is an acute general in Chorley. The hospital is situated on Euxton lane in Chorley close to junction 8 of the M61. It is managed by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Astley Village and Charnock Richard.

Hamlet
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in , England, covering a suburb of Chorley. According to the 2011 census, its population was 3,005.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in the borough of Chorley, , in . The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 1,748.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , England. It is part of the Borough of Chorley, lies around 300 feet above sea level. Its population is around 8,000, having been counted at 8,300 in the 2021Census. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Chorley.

Chorley

Latitude
53.6532° or 53° 39′ 12″ north
Longitude
-2.6294° or 2° 37′ 46″ west
Population
33,900
Elevation
344 feet (105 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB CHR
Open location code
9C5VM93C+76
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21434926
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2653086
Wiki­data ID
Q2078535
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Chorley” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Չորլի”
  • Asturian: “Chorley”
  • Basque: “Chorley”
  • Belarusian: “Чорлі”
  • Bengali: “চর্লে”
  • Catalan: “Chorley”
  • Cebuano: “Chorley (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Chorley”
  • Chinese: “乔利”
  • Chinese: “喬利”
  • Chinese: “喬利區”
  • Chinese: “喬萊”
  • Danish: “Chorley”
  • Dutch: “Chorley”
  • French: “Chorley”
  • German: “Chorley”
  • Greek: “Τσόρλι”
  • Gujarati: “ચોર્લી”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ורלי”
  • Hungarian: “Chorley”
  • Irish: “Chorley”
  • Italian: “Chorley”
  • Japanese: “コーリー”
  • Japanese: “チョーリー (イングランド)”
  • Japanese: “チョーリー (ランカシャー)”
  • Japanese: “チョーリー”
  • Kannada: “ಚಾರ್ಲಿ”
  • Korean: “촐리”
  • Ladin: “Chorley”
  • Lithuanian: “Čorlis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chorley”
  • Persian: “چورلی”
  • Polish: “Chorley”
  • Portuguese: “Chorley”
  • Romanian: “Chorley”
  • Russian: “Чорли”
  • Slovenian: “Chorley”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چورلی”
  • Spanish: “Chorley”
  • Swedish: “Chorley”
  • Tamil: “சோரலே”
  • Telugu: “చార్లె”
  • Turkish: “Chorley, Lancashire”
  • Turkish: “Chorley”
  • Urdu: “چورلے”
  • Vietnamese: “Chorley”
  • Volapük: “Chorley”
  • Welsh: “Chorley”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Chorley”. Photo: jim walton, CC BY 3.0.