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Attractions near Whitworth
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Rochdale Art Gallery
(3 Miles)*
Touchstones is an exciting arts and heritage centre that has something special for everyone. The site consists of Art Galleries, Museum, Local Studies Centre and Tourist Information Centre. |
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Rossendale Museum
(6 Miles)*
Rossendale Museum is housed in a 19th century mill owner's residence built in 1840 for the Hardman family, overlooking their woollen mill at New Hall Hey |
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Heaton Hall
(8 Miles)*
A magnificent neo-classical country house with beautifully restored 18th century interiors, set in 650 acres of rolling parkland. |
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Haworth Art Gallery
(9 Miles)*
Originally called Hollins Hill, the Gallery is a Tudor-style Edwardian house designed and built for William Haworth and his sister Anne in 1909 by Walter Brierley, FSA of York. It is now Accrington's art gallery. |
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Saddleworth Museum & Art Gallery
(10 Miles)*
Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery is full of intriguing objects from the past and tells the story of the people who have created Saddleworth's landscape and character |
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Queen Street Mill and Textile Museum
(11 Miles)*
Bringing Steam Powered Weaving to Life at Queen Street Mill - Lancashire's last 19th century steam powered weaving mill is packed full of sights, sounds and smells to stimulate the senses. |
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Bolton Museum, Aquarium and Archive
(11 Miles)*
Bolton Museum has many collections of exhibits from fine art to Egyptian archaeology. There is an aquarium where you can see snakes and a piranha fish which is 23 years old. |
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Gawthorpe Hall
(11 Miles)*
Gawthorpe Hall was built between 1600 and 1605 for the Shuttleworth family who had already been at Gawthorpe for over 200 years. |
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Salford Museum & Art Gallery
(11 Miles)*
Museum of Salford's local history and art. |
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Smithills Hall and Estate
(12 Miles)*
Visitors to Smithills Hall can enjoy history in the surroundings of a building that stretches from the 14th century to the glorious period of the Arts and Craft revolution of the late 19th century. |
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People's History Museum
(12 Miles)*
The People's History Museum tells the extraordinary story of ordinary people. |
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Portland Basin Museum
(12 Miles)*
Portland Basin Museum is the centrepiece of the recently rebuilt Ashton Canal Warehouse, now looking much as it did in 1834 when it was first built. |
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Manchester Art Gallery
(12 Miles)*
The gallery's amazing collection of art is displayed in an innovative and imaginative way. An undoubted highlight is the outstanding collection of 19th century Pre-Raphaelite paintings. |
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Ordsall Hall
(13 Miles)*
Ordsall Hall, once home to the wealthy Radclyffe family, is one of the finest examples of Tudor architecture in North West England. |
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Whitworth Art Gallery
(13 Miles)*
The Gallery is home to an impressive range of watercolours, prints, drawings, modern art and sculpture, as well as the largest collections of textiles and wallpapers outside London. |
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