Blog (2017) - Visit Lancashire

Who can resist the heritage and majesty of the Blackpool Tower?
Opened in 1894 and still welcoming visitors over 120 years later with its dazzling 120ft square ballroom, family attractions and of course the magnificent 518ft tower itself.

What do Brief Encounter, The Trip and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children all have in common? Whether it be a quaint railway station, award winning restaurants or iconic landmarks these and many other television programmes and films have been filmed in Lancashire.

Welcome to The National Festival of Making! The first ever National Festival of Making is here and it’s taking place in Blackburn, Lancashire on Sat 6 and Sun 7 May 2017. Why has Lancashire bee..

The Lancashire landscape is a spectacular mix of rolling moors, heather-clad hills and sweeping coastline.

Planning days out and holidays when you’ve got children to keep happy can be one of the biggest challenges for families. Here in Lancashire we’ve got everything you could possible want, find out more.

Teenagers might be notoriously hard to please, but there are few who couldn’t be tempted to ride the UK’s biggest and fastest roller coaster?

We all deserve a bit of luxury every now and then. The opportunity to escape from the day to day and to feel thoroughly relaxed and indulged.

With an abundance of things to do and see, you are never too far from anywhere in Lancashire no matter what the weather decides!