North West England
Lancashire
Ribble Valley District

Clitheroe

Clitheroe is an attractive market town in the Ribble Valley in East . It has a Norman castle guarding the transport route along the valley, and is a good base for exploring the to the north.
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  • Type: Town with 14,800 residents
  • Description: town in Lancashire, England
  • Also known as: “Clitheroe, Lancashire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Clitheroe Castle and Clitheroe railway station.

Castle
Photo: Lux01, Public domain.
is a ruined early medieval castle in Clitheroe in the Borough of Ribble Valley, , England. It was the caput of the Honour of Clitheroe, a vast estate stretching along the western side of the .

Railway station
Photo: Geoff Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Clitheroe in , . The station is situated on the Ribble Valley line, and is operated by Northern Trains.

Museum
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is located in Clitheroe, , England, in the former Steward's House, a Grade II listed building that was built in the 18th century to house the steward of . It is a museum showing the history of the local area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Great Mitton.

Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley, , England. It is separated from the civil parish of by the , both lie about three miles from the town of Clitheroe. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Clitheroe.

Clitheroe

Latitude
53.8717° or 53° 52′ 18″ north
Longitude
-2.3927° or 2° 23′ 34″ west
Population
14,800
Elevation
249 feet (76 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB CLI
Open location code
9C5VVJC4+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21664715
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2652819
Wiki­data ID
Q1008765
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Clitheroe” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كليذرو”
  • Asturian: “Clitheroe”
  • Basque: “Clitheroe”
  • Belarusian: “Клайтэро”
  • Bengali: “ক্লিদারো”
  • Catalan: “Clitheroe”
  • Cebuano: “Clitheroe”
  • Chinese: “克利斯罗”
  • Chinese: “克利斯羅”
  • Danish: “Clitheroe”
  • Dutch: “Clitheroe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كليذرو”
  • Finnish: “Clitheroe”
  • French: “Clitheroe”
  • German: “Clitheroe”
  • Gujarati: “ક્લિથેરોએ”
  • Hebrew: “קלית’רו”
  • Irish: “Clitheroe”
  • Italian: “Clitheroe”
  • Japanese: “クリザーロー”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಲಿಥೆರೊ”
  • Korean: “클리테로”
  • Ladin: “Clitheroe”
  • Lithuanian: “Klaiteras”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Clitheroe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Clitheroe”
  • Norwegian: “Clitheroe”
  • Persian: “کلیترو”
  • Polish: “Clitheroe”
  • Portuguese: “Clitheroe”
  • Romanian: “Clitheroe”
  • Russian: “Клитеро”
  • Silesian: “Clitheroe”
  • Slovenian: “Clitheroe”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کلیترو”
  • Spanish: “Clitheroe”
  • Swedish: “Clitheroe”
  • Tamil: “கிளித்தெரோ”
  • Telugu: “క్లిథేరోయె”
  • Turkish: “Clitheroe”
  • Urdu: “کلیتھیروی”
  • Volapük: “Clitheroe”
  • Welsh: “Clitheroe”

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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 “Clitheroe”. Photo: ClemRutter, CC BY-SA 3.0.