The Top 20 Natural Monuments in Lancashire
Lancashire’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20
beautiful natural monuments in Lancashire. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments in Lancashire. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: November 21, 2025
Pendle Hill summit trig point
Highlight • Summit
An outlier of the fells of the main Forest of Bowland AONB, Pendle Hill is a superb standalone peak. At 1,827 feet (532 m), it's high enough to feel big …
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Clougha Pike
Highlight • Summit
No dogs allowed though due to grouse shooting / breeding. The gamekeeper frequently travels around in their land rover
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Confluence of the Rivers Calder and Ribble
Highlight • Natural Monument
This is the confluence of two of Lancashire's great rivers, the Ribble and the Calder. From here, the Ribble flows out to the Irish Sea at the Ribble Estuary beyond …
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Noon Hill Bronze Age burial cairn
Highlight • Natural Monument
On the edge of the summit of Noon Hill stands a Bronze Age burial cairn. Measuring some twenty-one metres in diameter, it is bounded by a stone kerb which encircles …
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Birkacre Weir
Highlight • Natural Monument
Birkacre Weir was installed around 1800 to rise the water level and create a faster flowing river to turn the mill water wheels downstream. The fish ladder was installed in 2002 to allow salmon upstream to spawn.
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Thithaven Lake (Italian Lake)
Highlight • Viewpoint
Italian lake - one of many beauty spots in this area once owned by Lord Lever and his family. Stair cases lead up to the Pigeon tower, closest parking would be top two car parks Rivington
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Hawes Water
Highlight • Lake
I think Kenny's above tip refers to the Hawes Water in the Lake District.
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Warton Crag Road Climb
Highlight • Natural Monument
Warton Crag is a limestone outcrop with several old quarries and a small hill fort at the top.
It's managed by the Wildlife Trust due to the important habitat for …
It's managed by the Wildlife Trust due to the important habitat for …
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Parlick Fell summit
Highlight • Natural Monument
Parlick Fell is a great little summit at 432m. It's quite a conical shape which makes it a good high point and a great hill for kids wo like a mountain.
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Paddy's Pole Summit, Fair Snape Fell
Highlight • Natural Monument
Paddy's Pole is the name of the cairn on Fair Snape Fell. There is a trig point and shelter here as well as the pole topped cairn at 510m. It's …
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