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A selection of standout places across Lancashire & the Ribble Valley
Vinyl Groove Audio
Vinyl Groove Audio is a hi-fi showroom set up by Ian Barnett in a converted…
WorkshopJohn Morris Fine Furniture
John Morris makes bespoke furniture from a workshop at Bee Mill, a former…
LarderLittle Town Farm Shop
Little Town Farm Shop stands on the working farm that Matt and Eileen have run…
SnugDog Inn
The Dog Inn stands on a corner site next to Whalley's parish churchyard, built…
RestMyre Edge Farm
Myre Edge Farm is a working farmhouse bed and breakfast run by Joanne and Karl…
TablePotters Barn
Potters Barn occupies a converted barn on Church Street in Ribchester, close to…
Grounds
About Coffee
Colne, ENG
A small coffee shop on Church Street stocking beans from independent roasters and a changing list…
Atkinsons Coffee Roasters
Lancaster, ENG
J. Atkinson & Co began in 1837 as the Grasshopper Tea Warehouse and has traded from China Street…
Bramley's Coffee House
Ormskirk, ENG
Bramley's Coffee House occupies a quiet corner of Church Walk, away from Ormskirk's main shopping…
Fitzpatrick's Temperance Bar
Rawtenstall, ENG
A working temperance bar dating from the 1890s, serving herbal cordials such as sarsaparilla and…
Isla and Me
Brookhouse, ENG
Isla and Me is a studio-based florist working from the Lune Valley village of Brookhouse near…
Valley Coffee
Preston, ENG
Valley Coffee sits at Fourfields in Bamber Bridge, Preston, built from the ground up with money…
Vincenzo's Coffee House
Lancaster, ENG
Vincenzo's Coffee House occupies a corner unit inside St Nicholas Arcades on Church Street,…
Table
Blueberries Cafe Clitheroe
Clitheroe, ENG
This New Market Street café near Clitheroe's market square serves a full cooked breakfast, homemade…
Brief Encounter Refreshment Room
Carnforth, ENG
Brief Encounter Refreshment Room occupies the restored 1930s station buildings on platform one at…
Brioche
Clitheroe, ENG
Brioche has traded from Wellgate in Clitheroe town centre for more than eleven years as a…
Brucciani's
Morecambe, ENG
Luigi Brucciani came from Tuscany in 1893 and his family has made ice cream on Morecambe Bay ever…
Carlo's Restaurant
Colne, ENG
Carlo's is a family-run Italian restaurant that has served Colne for nearly 30 years from premises…
Deux Amis
Whalley, ENG
All-day brunch bar and Neapolitan pizza restaurant on George Street in Whalley village centre. An…
Eight at Gazegill
Rimington, ENG
Eight at Gazegill sits on Lower Gazegill Farm at Rimington, opened in February 2024 by organic…
Fabello's
Foulridge, ENG
Independent restaurant on Warehouse Lane at Foulridge Wharf, beside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal…
GemNi
Rawtenstall, ENG
Chef patron Michael Pilkington, a Rossendale native who spent eighteen years cooking for chef…
Pipers Restaurant
Garstang, ENG
Pipers occupies an 18th-century building on Garstang's High Street and has served modern British…
Potters Barn
Ribchester, ENG
Potters Barn occupies a converted barn on Church Street in Ribchester, close to the site of the…
The Higher Buck
Waddington, ENG
Chef-landlord Michael Heathcote has run the Higher Buck on Waddington's main square for two…
Larder
Bowland Food Hall
Clitheroe, ENG
Set inside the converted Holmes Mill complex, this food hall combines a butchery counter, cheese…
Bradshaws Farm Shop Garstang
Garstang, ENG
Bradshaws Farm Shop occupies the former milking parlour of a working dairy farm on the A6 south of…
Breda Murphy
Whalley, ENG
Breda Murphy opened her deli and restaurant in Whalley in 2006, after training at Ballymaloe…
Chipping Farm Shop
Chipping, ENG
Chipping Farm Shop operates from a former butcher's premises on Garstang Road at the edge of…
Cowman's Famous Sausage Shop
Clitheroe, ENG
The Castle Street premises has been a butcher's for more than a hundred and twenty years, and the…
D.C. Scott & Sons
Ormskirk, ENG
D.C. Scott & Sons has traded as a butcher on Church Street in Ormskirk since 1923, when Donald…
Home Farm Shop
Bispham (Ormskirk), ENG
Home Farm Shop sells grass-fed, high-welfare meat reared on the family's own land near Ormskirk,…
Little Town Dairy
Longridge, ENG
Family-run dairy making yoghurt, soured cream, creme fraiche and buttermilk using only milk, cream…
Little Town Farm Shop
Thornley, near Longridge, ENG
Little Town Farm Shop stands on the working farm that Matt and Eileen have run since the early…
Livesey's Butchers
Preston, ENG
Adrian Livesey cut his first shop's ribbon in Chorley on 21 February 1983 and moved the business…
Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire Cheese
Goosnargh, ENG
The last family making raw-milk Lancashire cheese at any scale does it at Beesley Farm, Goosnargh,…
Riley's Butchers
Crawshawbooth, ENG
Riley's Butchers has traded on Burnley Road in Crawshawbooth for more than 150 years, a Q-Guild…
Culture
Atelier Arts
Clitheroe, ENG
Beverley Chapelhow runs Atelier Arts from Bowland Chambers on Harris Court, a working studio and…
Bancroft Mill Engine Museum
Barnoldswick, ENG
Volunteer-run steam museum on the site of Bancroft Shed, a weaving mill that closed in 1978. It…
British In India Museum
Nelson, ENG
A small independent museum inside a former mill, documenting the historical trading and cultural…
Horse + Bamboo
Waterfoot, ENG
Horse + Bamboo is an arts charity and venue on Bacup Road in Waterfoot with a 90-seat performance…
Longridge Gallery
Longridge, ENG
Longridge Gallery has traded from 78 Berry Lane since 1985, combining a fine art gallery with an…
Pendle Hippodrome Theatre
Colne, ENG
Built in 1914 as a cine-variety hall, this New Market Street theatre was bought by three local…
Platform Gallery Clitheroe
Clitheroe, ENG
Run alongside Clitheroe's visitor information centre, this gallery shows a changing programme of…
Ribchester Roman Museum
Ribchester, ENG
Ribchester Roman Museum stands on Riverside by the banks of the Ribble, on a site first proposed as…
The Dukes
Lancaster, ENG
The Dukes occupies a former church on Moor Lane, converted into Lancaster's only producing theatre…
Wolf House Gallery
Silverdale, ENG
Wolf House Gallery has traded from a converted barn on Lindeth Road in Silverdale since the…
Workshop
Brayzel Narrowboats
Nateby, Garstang, ENG
Independent canal narrowboat builder and designer based at a marina on the Lancaster Canal near…
Brush & Pencil
Bacup, ENG
Paint-your-own-pottery studio on Burnley Road in Bacup, run by a former schoolteacher. Customers…
Down to Earth Pottery
Whalley, ENG
Lesley Woods teaches hand-building pottery classes with her co-tutor Emma from the craft room at…
Fired 4 U
Walton-le-Dale, ENG
This studio near Preston lets visitors choose a ready-made ceramic piece, decorate it by hand, and…
Garstang Fine Art
Garstang, ENG
Garstang Fine Art has traded from Church Street in Garstang since 1994, offering bespoke picture…
John Morris Fine Furniture
Ribchester, ENG
John Morris makes bespoke furniture from a workshop at Bee Mill, a former textile mill in…
Lancaster Pottery Studio
Lancaster, ENG
Lancaster Pottery Studio operates from a small ground-floor space on Moor Lane, trading under L.R.…
North West Jewellery School
Waddington, ENG
North West Jewellery School opened in April 2023 in a converted barn at Backridge Farm in…
Rollinson Gallery
Ribchester, ENG
Rollinson Gallery is the studio and shop of wildlife and landscape artist Geoff Rollinson on Church…
The Crafty Potter
Heskin (Chorley), ENG
The Crafty Potter runs wheel-throwing and hand-building classes from a studio inside Heskin Hall…
Counter
Action Records
Preston, ENG
Action Records has traded from 46 Church Street since 1981, having started life as a market stall…
Carnforth Bookshop
Carnforth, ENG
Established in 1977 and still family run, this Market Street shop spans three floors and around…
Ebb & Flo Bookshop
Chorley, ENG
Ebb & Flo is a family-run independent bookshop that has traded in Chorley since 2013, moving to its…
First Age Comics
Lancaster, ENG
First Age Comics began trading in 2006 as a stall in Lancaster's Assembly Rooms on King Street, run…
Halewood and Sons Booksellers
Preston, ENG
Halewood and Sons has traded as booksellers from Friargate in Preston since 1867, when William…
Holden Clough Nursery
Bolton-by-Bowland, ENG
Holden Clough Nursery grows hardy plants on the site of the walled kitchen garden of Holden Clough…
Old Oak Farm Nurseries
Hoghton (Preston), ENG
Old Oak Farm Nurseries is a family-run garden centre on Bells Lane in Hoghton, stocking plants,…
Ribblesdale Nurseries & Garden Centre
Woodplumpton, ENG
Ribblesdale Nurseries is a small, family-run nursery on Newsham Hall Lane in Woodplumpton, west of…
That Comic Shop
Preston, ENG
That Comic Shop is a family-run comic store on Preston's Friargate, stocking American titles from…
The Next Chapter Book Shop
Longridge, ENG
Independent bookshop and cafe inside a former church on Longridge's main street, stocking fiction,…
The Old Pier Bookshop
Morecambe, ENG
Tony Vettese has run the Old Pier Bookshop since 1990, in a seafront building his family has held…
Turbary House Nursery
Whitestake, ENG
Run by the Kenworthy family for more than 40 years, this Whitestake nursery sells bedding plants,…
Cellar
Ben's Brewery Tap & Bottle Shop
Chorley, ENG
Three generations of the Haydock family run Ben's Brewery's taproom at 2 Market Place, brewing the…
Big Clock Brewery
Accrington, ENG
Brewery built into Grants pub and brewhouse on Manchester Road in Accrington, brewing since 2014. A…
Bowland Brewery
Clitheroe, ENG
Bowland Brewery began in a Bashall Eaves milking parlour in 2003 and moved its production plant to…
Chain House Brewing Co.
Preston (Friargate), ENG
Chain House Brewing Co. was started by Ryan Hayes, who began home brewing in 2014 at his parents'…
D. Byrne & Co
Clitheroe, ENG
The Byrnes have sold wine from Victoria Buildings on King Street since 1879, and the shop shows its…
Lancaster Spirits Company
Lancaster, ENG
Founded in 2022 by the team behind Lancaster Brewery, this grain-to-glass distillery mills, mashes,…
Lancaster Wine Company
Lancaster, ENG
Lancaster Wine Company is an independent wine merchant on Greaves Road, half a mile south of…
Moorhouse's Brewery
Burnley, ENG
Moorhouse's has brewed cask and bottled ale from the same site on Accrington Road in Burnley since…
Ribble Valley Gin Co
Longridge, ENG
Ribble Valley Gin Co distils in a stone outhouse on Little Lane in Longridge, a building put up in…
Three Wheel Gin Company
Torrisholme, Morecambe, ENG
Three Wheel Gin Company set up as a micro-distillery in Torrisholme, Morecambe, in September 2019,…
Wild Fox Distillery
Inglewhite, ENG
Fourth-generation farming family distilling small-batch gin on their working farm near Goosnargh,…
Snug
Ben's Brewery Tap & Bottle Shop
Chorley, ENG
Three generations of the Haydock family run Ben's Brewery's taproom at 2 Market Place, brewing the…
Dog Inn
Whalley, ENG
The Dog Inn stands on a corner site next to Whalley's parish churchyard, built of local stone with…
Ministry of Ale
Burnley, ENG
Ministry of Ale occupies the former Nelson Hotel on Trafalgar Street, a two-storey stone building…
Parkers Arms
Newton-in-Bowland, ENG
The Parkers Arms is a stone-built pub in the small Forest of Bowland village of Newton-in-Bowland,…
Shepherds' Hall Ale House & Victoria Rooms
Chorley, ENG
Three brothers, Graham, Stuart, and Tom, own Shepherds' Hall Ale House on Chapel Street, with Tom…
The Ale House
Clitheroe, ENG
A one-room micropub just off Clitheroe's Market Place, serving cask ales, modern keg beers and…
The Barlick Tap
Barnoldswick, ENG
Micropub on Newtown in Barnoldswick, in a converted former ladies' clothing shop fitted out with…
The Lower Buck Inn
Waddington (Clitheroe), ENG
The Lower Buck Inn is a family-owned pub in Waddington dating to the 1760s, serving homemade…
The Swan with Two Necks Pendleton
Pendleton, ENG
Steve and Christine Dilworth have run this freehouse pub in the small village of Pendleton since…
The White Bull Ribchester
Ribchester, ENG
The White Bull dates to 1707 and stands on Church Street in Ribchester, overlooking The Hillock at…
Rest
Brooklyn Guest House
Clitheroe, ENG
Brooklyn Guest House occupies a Victorian townhouse on Pimlico Road, a short walk from Clitheroe's…
Cobden Farm
Sabden, ENG
This working farm above the Sabden valley offers two en-suite bedrooms with views over sheep…
Dale House Barn
Slaidburn, ENG
Dale House Barn is a working farm B&B above Slaidburn, offering two double rooms and a single in…
Foxhill Barn
Gisburn, ENG
Jan and Pete run this bed and breakfast in a converted barn on Howgill Lane, just outside Gisburn…
Foxhill Fold Bed & Breakfast
Gisburn, ENG
Foxhill Fold is a family-run bed and breakfast converted from a milking shippon in 2004, set in the…
Little Oakhurst
Stonyhurst, ENG
Little Oakhurst opened in June 2019 on Overhacking Farm at Stonyhurst, a second-generation working…
Myre Edge Farm
Clayton-le-Dale, ENG
Myre Edge Farm is a working farmhouse bed and breakfast run by Joanne and Karl on twelve acres…
The Coach and Horses
Bolton by Bowland, ENG
Grade II listed coaching inn on Main Street in Bolton-by-Bowland, with seven bedrooms and its own…
The Higher Buck
Waddington, ENG
Chef-landlord Michael Heathcote has run the Higher Buck on Waddington's main square for two…
The Inn at Whitewell
Whitewell, ENG
Independent inn on the River Hodder in the Forest of Bowland, parts of which date to the 14th…
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