Alum House Wood

Alum House Wood is a forest in Pleasington, Blackburn with Darwen, England. Alum House Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Hoghton Bottoms, as well as near Nab’s Head.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pleasington railway station and Pleasington Priory.

Pleasington railway station

Railway station

Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pleasington railway station serves the village of Pleasington in Lancashire, England. The station is on the East Lancashire Line 3 miles west of Blackburn railway station.

Pleasington Priory, or the Church of St Mary and St John Baptist, is a Catholic church in the village of Pleasington, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

Witton Country Park

Park

Photo: Margaret Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Witton Country Park is a 480-acre public park in the west of Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Around half of the country park is mixed woodland and parkland, while the rest is either farmland or rough grassland with open access.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blackburn and Pleasington.

Blackburn

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Blackburn is a large town in Lancashire in North West England. The town has some attractive public buildings and parks, but it is mostly known for its contribution to the cotton weaving industry and for its successful premiership football team, Blackburn Rovers.

Pleasington

Village

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Pleasington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It had a population of 467 in the 2001 census, reducing to 446 at the 2011 census.

Brownhill

Suburb

Brownhill is a suburb of Blackburn, in the unitary borough of Blackburn with Darwen, in Lancashire, England. It is situated to the north-east of the town centre, in the Roe Lee ward which has an estimated population of 5,948.

Alum House Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Pleasington, Blackburn with Darwen, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.7483° or 53° 44′ 54″ north

Longitude

-2.5599° or 2° 33′ 36″ west

Open location code

9C5VPCXR+83

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9186480355

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Hoghton Bottoms and Nab’s Head.

Notable Places Nearby

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