GOLD - The Romantic Ribble Valley
A new updated itinerary for 2026, on our popular holiday to Lancashire. We enjoy a guided tour of the Pendle Hill Country, Riley Green Canal Cruise with Afternoon Tea and a visit to Dewlay Cheesemakers, a family run award-winning artisan producer, who have been creating cheese since 1957
View Dates & Book• 5 DAYS Coach Tour • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast
• FREE Home Link Included
• Gold Coach Travel with Hostess Service
Holiday Highlights:
• Guided tour of Pendle Hill Country
• Riley Green Canal Cruise with Afternoon Tea
• Dewlay Cheesemakers
• Helmshore Mill
• Bury Market
Monday
We depart and make our way to Lancashire and the Foxfields Country hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast.
During your stay
• A full-day guided tour of Pendle Hill Country, hearing about the infamous witches. Downham was the setting for the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind and TV’s Born and Bred. We call at Barrowford
Visitor Centre for a break before heading over to Pendle Hill on our way to Clitheroe.
• Visit to Slaidburn.
• Bury where you can browse the famous Bury Market – often voted market of the year in Britain’s Favourite Market. You’ll find over 350 stalls to visit with time to explore Bury at leisure.
• We visit Helmshore Mill, which at one point, Lancashire supplied one-third of all the world's cotton goods. We enjoy a guided tour where this industrial heritage is brought to life.
• Dewlay Cheesemakers, where you will enjoy a guided tour of the creamery and have chance to taste some samples to tantalise your taste buds.
• Riley Green Marina, where we join the boat for a relaxing and peaceful cruise along the canal, with afternoon tea served on the way.
Friday
After breakfast we depart for home.
Your Hotel:
The Foxfields Country Hotel and Suites is situated near the village of Billington in the beautiful Ribble Valley and has leisure facilities with a heated indoor swimming pool, sauna and gym. All bedrooms are en suite with TV and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel does not have a lift.
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Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
| Name | Address |
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| Bath | Bath Odd Down Park and Ride Coach Park |
| Bridgwater | Bridgwater Mount Street Bus Stop Rear of Angel Place Shopping centre |
| Chippenham | Chippenham The Bridge Outside Rivo Lounge or Megabet. |
| Cirencester | Cirencester Little Chef/Burger King Hare Bushes Services, A429 Burford Road, GL7 5DS |
| Clevedon | Clevedon Miles Morgan Travel Agency, Triangle Bus Stop |
| Exeter Services | Exeter Services - M5 - Pickups from here may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
| Frome | Frome Market Place |
| Gloucester | Gloucester Sainsburys, Barnett Way |
| Gloucester Sainsburys | Gloucester Sainsburys Layby, Barnett Way, Barnwood GL4 3RT South East bound Bus Stop |
| Gordano | Gordano M5 Services CAR PARK |
| Highbridge | Highbridge, Church Street Bus Stop Near to Church |
| Ivybridge | Ivybridge Leisure Centre Car Park - Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
| Junction 27 M5 | J27 M5 - Burger King/ Travelodge Pick ups maybe fed to Gordano Services |
| Liskeard | Liskeard Lloyds Bank The Parade, Liskeard, PL14 6AW |
| M5 Junction 13 | M5 Junction 13, Starbucks Formerly Little Chef |
| Melksham | Melksham Town Hall. |
| Michael Wood Services | Michael Wood Services - Outward - Northbound side Return - Southbound side |
| Midsomer Norton | Midsomer Norton Silver Street |
| Minehead | Minehead Railway Station |
| Newton Abbot | Newton Abbot Railway Station Lay By Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 |
| Plymouth | Plymouth Railway Station SE Bound Bus Stop Pennycomequick Hill/ Saltash Road |
| Shepton Mallet | Shepton Mallet Station Road Car Park Bus Stop near Monument |
| Somerton | Somerton The Cross - Pickups from here may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
| St Austell | St Austell-Railway Station PL25 4LA |
| Street | Street Bayliss Centre |
| Taunton Herons | Taunton - Hankeridge Farm Bus Stop, Herons Gate by Halfords Superstore. |
| Thornbury | Thornbury Aldi Lay-by |
| Torquay | Torquay Coach Station |
| Trowbridge | Trowbridge Town Hall |
| Truro | Truro Fairmantle Street Coach Park TR1 2EE |
| Wells | Wells Princes Road Car Park |
| Westbury | Westbury Haynes Road bus stop |
| Weston-super-Mare | Weston-super-Mare Locking Road Car Park |
| Yeovil | Yeovil Bus Station - Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
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