Blog (Explore) - Visit Lancashire

Blackpool Pleasure Beach has announced a string of activities allowing the public to experience the thrills and spills of the UK’s favourite amusement park from home.

We’ve pulled together some facts and fiction regarding Lancashire to see if we can fool you this April Fools Day. Challenge your family to this difficult quiz and see who comes out on top...

The coronavirus outbreak has put many businesses at risk, so here are some of the ways you can continue to support them..

Following the fast-changing situation regarding the Coronavirus (COVID-19) we want to keep all Lancashire visitors as up to date as possible.

We're no experts, but if you're struggling today - this might help. 

Many areas of the UK claim to have inspired JRR Tolkien’s creation of middle earth but the author certainly spent much of his time at Stonyhurst College whilst he was working on Lord of The Rings during the Second World War.

John Ruskin, the Victorian artist, poet and art critic famously wrote of the Lune Valley ‘I do not know in all my own country, still less in France and Italy, a place more naturally divine.’

Blackpool Pleasure Beach is offering unlimited access to the park for the whole of the 2020 season for just £90. 

Although much more associated with Yorkshire, The Brontë sisters actually spent much of their lives in Lancashire walking from the family home at Haworth across the South Pennine Moors.

Turn back time to the 80s this summer and get ready for a night of nostalgia with the incredible chart toppers Tony Hadley, T’pau, Doctor and the Medics and Pat Sharp.