Blog (Explore) - Visit Lancashire

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...

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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.

The free ticket ballot for the 2020 Blackpool Illuminations Switch-On event is now open!

In celebration of the Blackpool Grand Theatre’s 125^th year, 2020 will see the launch of a brand-new loyalty membership, the ‘1894 CLUB’, aptly named after the year the theatre was built!

David Baddiel returns to the stage with a brand new one-man show, Trolls: Not The Dolls.