Extend your break at Lancashire College

• Accommodation at Lancashire College
• Visit Lancashire website
• Visit Manchester website
• Visit Liverpool website
• Visit Preston Website
• Official Lake District Website

Why not extend your stay at Lancashire College and find out what Lancashire has to offer? Lancashire College offers easy access to the North West motorway network and regional public transport, making it easy to use the college as your base while you visit some of the many local tourist attractions. Bed and Breakfast rates starting from just £29.50.

If spectacular countryside is more to your liking, we are on the doorstep of the Ribble Valley and the hill country of Lancashire with its industrial heritage of wool and cotton mills. Lancashire’s natural resources married with engineering enterprise fuelled the Industrial Revolution. Discover traditional Lancashire market towns, sympathetically developed to meet the modern needs of communities, without losing the traditional charm of their majestic buildings, funded by the industrial barons of previous centuries.

Discover the seaside town of Southport with its Victorian shopping arcades and timeless elegance, then travel down to Formby and Freshfields to watch the red squirrels near the shore. Move inland to St Helens the home of Pilkington Glass, or travel to the Fylde coast and take a stroll along the promenade at St-Annes-on-Sea, an Edwardian example of a “new” town, and nearby Lytham with its wide “green” and windmill museum.

For the shopaholics amongst you, there are numerous East Lancashire Mill shopping outlets, Fleetwood Freeport, Cheshire Oaks and the Trafford Centre. There is also city centre shopping in Manchester, Liverpool and Preston.

Manchester

Manchester is just a 30 minute train ride away. Take a trip on the city trams and marvel at the city centre reconstruction with water features, wonderful public spaces and the famous shops. The Museum of Science and Industry, based around a reconstruction of the Victorian railway station, and also the Roman architectural remains are not to be missed.

You may want to vist the official Manchester tourism website.

Liverpool

Within 40 minutes you can enjoy the waterfront views in Liverpool (European city of culture 2008), take a ferry across the Mersey and visit the ship museum on the Wirral. As the crow flies, you can carry on down to the city of Chester, famous for the half-timbered, first floor shopping rows.

You may want to visit the official Liverpool tourism website.

The Lake District

Within an hour, you can be visiting the Lake District, Peak District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks, providing an unforgettable experience, whether for walking, exploring or just driving through the magnificent scenery.

You may want to visit the official Lake District website.