Shireshead St James

Shireshead St James is a church in Forton, Wyre District, England. Shireshead St James is situated nearby to Stoney Lane Bridge, as well as near the pitch Forton Crown Green Bowls Club.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wyresdale Park and St Mark’s Church.

Wyresdale Park

Manor estate

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Wyresdale Park is an English country house and licensed wedding ceremony venue located within the Forest of Bowland, to the northeast of Scorton, Lancashire, England. Wyresdale Park is situated 1½ miles southeast of Shireshead St James.

St Mark’s Church

Church

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St Mark's Church is in the village of Dolphinholme, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Lancaster and Morecambe, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. St Mark’s Church is situated 2 miles northeast of Shireshead St James.

St Peter’s Church, Scorton

Church

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St Peter's Church is in the village of Scorton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Garstang, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn. St Peter’s Church, Scorton is situated 2 miles south of Shireshead St James.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Galgate and Ellel.

Galgate

Village

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Galgate is a village in the City of Lancaster, just south of Lancaster University, and about 3 miles south of Lancaster itself in the English county of Lancashire. Galgate is situated 2½ miles north of Shireshead St James.

Ellel

Village

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Ellel is a village and civil parish in the City of Lancaster in the English county of Lancashire. It had a population of 4,644 in 2021, 4,895 in 2011, up from 2,521 in 2001 The parish includes the villages of Bay Horse, Galgate and Hampson Green, and part of Dolphinholme. Ellel is situated 3 miles north of Shireshead St James.

Oakenclough

Hamlet

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Oakenclough is an English hamlet located on the edge of the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire. Oakenclough is a small and scattered community, which appears to have developed largely as a result of a paper mill being sited here to make use of the water power available from the swiftly flowing River Calder. Oakenclough is situated 3½ miles southeast of Shireshead St James.

Shireshead St James

Type: Church
Denomination: Anglican
Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
Location: Forton, Wyre District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.95654° or 53° 57′ 24″ north

Longitude

-2.77387° or 2° 46′ 26″ west

Open location code

9C5VX64G+JF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 154590384

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

OpenStreetMap feature

building=church

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=anglican

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