Towneley Hall
Towneley Hall is a country house and park with art gallery and museum in Burnley, Lancashire. It is a Grade I listed building. A short trip away is Pendle Heritage Centre, 8.9 km off, the first of 21 within 15 km.
Museum near Burnley
Just outside Burnley
Towneley Hall is 300 m southeast of Burnley. Towns near it ↓
Grade I listed building
On the official list of protected heritage; Burnley has 185 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
How the seasons run
Highs of 18–20°C mark June to August in Burnley.
Towneley Hall
The site is in the hands of Burnley Borough Council. Articles on it exist in 3 languages.
- Type
- Museum
- Run by
- Burnley Borough Council
- Listed
- Grade I listed building
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 3 languages
- Town
- 300 m southeast of Burnley
- Official site
- towneley.org.uk
Before you go
- EntryA fee is charged
Mapping Towneley Hall
The map puts Towneley Hall in orange and numbers its neighbours as in the list.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · ONS built-up area 2022
The nearest towns
Burnley, with 78,266 people, is the largest of the 7. Nearest first, every town here counts it among its places to visit.
Burnley
Cliviger
Worsthorne
Hapton
Compare the 7 towns
| Town | Where Towneley Hall is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnley | 300 m northwest of it | 78,266 | 10 |
| Cliviger | 2 km southeast of it | 569 | 3 |
| Worsthorne | 2.3 km northeast of it | 971 | 4 |
| Hapton | 4.3 km west of it | 2,240 | 8 |
| Brierfield | 4.5 km north of it | 10,723 | 9 |
| Barrowford | 8.5 km north of it | 5,887 | 5 |
| Foulridge | 12 km north of it | 1,212 | 6 |
Places to add to Towneley Hall
Among the 21 within 15 km are 5 museums, 2 castles and an abbey or priory.
MuseumPendle Heritage Centre8.9 km away · 100K visitors a year2MuseumMuseumGawthorpe Hall5.7 km away3
MuseumWeavers' Triangle2.1 km away4
Abbey or priory · English HeritageWhalley Abbey13 km away5
CastleDobroyd Castle10 km away6
MuseumHaworth Art Gallery9.4 km away7MuseumMuseumQueen Street Mill Textile Museum4.3 km away8
CastleCastercliff8.1 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Your questions on Towneley Hall
Where is Towneley Hall?
Towneley Hall is 300 m southeast of Burnley, Lancashire.
What is Towneley Hall?
Country house and park with art gallery and museum in Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
Who runs Towneley Hall?
Burnley Borough Council.
When is the best time to visit Towneley Hall?
June to August are the warmest months in Burnley, with afternoon highs of 18–20°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
Is Towneley Hall a listed building?
Yes: Grade I listed building.
What else is there to see near Towneley Hall?
Within 15 km: Pendle Heritage Centre (8.9 km), Gawthorpe Hall (5.7 km), Weavers' Triangle (2.1 km) and Whalley Abbey (13 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (7)
- Towneley Hall: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pendle Heritage Centre: Peter Worrell, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Weavers' Triangle: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Whalley Abbey: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dobroyd Castle: Dvprknsn at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Haworth Art Gallery: Alexander P Kapp; cropped by Beyond My Ken 20:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Castercliff: Kevin Rushton, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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