Ribble Valley’s finest tourist base for exploring the Lancashire countryside. Looking for your new favourite family holiday destination? Clitheroe, up in Lancashire, is the place that long-lasting memories are made of. With a population just shy of 20,000 people, this lovely town is large enough to cater to all your holiday needs, yet still small…
Chorley In Lancashire: in Less than Five Minutes! Ever wondered what it’s like to visit Chorley? Wonder no more, with the Five Minutes Spare Tour. Set in lovely Lancashire, the market town of Chorley is a great place to visit and a pretty nice area to live in too. They have a great little theatre…
Accrington the internationally renowned purveyor of incredibly dense bricks. Seriously the famed Accrington Brick is iron-hard and has been used as the foundation of landmark buildings as famous and diverse as the Empire State Building in New York and Blackpool Tower! However, that’s not all the town has to offer and it is somewhere deserving…
Rochdale – in Under Five Minutes! Check out the History and some of the Attractions of the birthplace of Co-Operation, that’s the Co-Op to you and me. Here at Five Minutes Spare, we regularly review the towns and cities of the UK, with a mind to planning a holiday there. With 2020 officially becoming the…
The Textile and Mill Town that Outgrew the Industrial Revolution Found slightly to the west of the heart of Greater Manchester, Wigan has a population of more than a hundred thousand people. However did you know, that it sprang up as the home of a rogue tribe of Celtic miscreants? Or that the wider borough…
Mention the name Blackburn to a non-UK resident and you will probably get a blank look and we wager that a few people based south of Watford would have difficulty pointing it out on the map. This is a shame as this fine Lancashire town is steeped in history, has a famous football club (Blackburn…
Craig Taylor