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Bonnie Colne on the hill Sitting proudly on top of its ridge in the majestic Pennines, little old Colne is a heap of contradictions and surprises. SHOPPING IN COLNE

Time to shop Unlike nearby tourist trap towns, Colne is all about real, independent shops lining its handsome High Street, down the for most needs, as well as characterful side roads some specialist ones you and in the elegant arcades hadn’t even considered. leading off it. Artisan It is also home to the bakers, high end interiors, famous Boundary Outlet professional services, an department store, which old-fashioned sweet shop, acts as a magnet for a bookshop and a real shoppers all over the cobblers, Colne caters region in search of a bargain. It is not surprising that with all this on offer, Colne was runner up in The Great British High Street Competition a few years ago.

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Go have a few Mainline Mainline At night, Colne offers a It also boasts an incredible C017 LNE really amazing variety three theatres, while its Getting about for a town of fewer than restaurant and bar culture Colne is served by its very Greenfield Mill. Travel times 20,000 residents. There are has ramped up considerably own motorway, with the by car to Leeds, Manchester a staggering 19 live music in recent years, so that M65 stopping just shy of and Preston are less than venues, from the large to people say they prefer the Primet Conservation an hour. There is also a the miniscule and, as a socialising in Colne to a Area, which still boasts mills, railway station with trains result, there is a flourishing, night out in much bigger foundries and a stupendous to Burnley and Preston.

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Time to explore Colne’s position on a hill means that walking around gets you fit, but it also guarantees you magnificent views wherever you look. Wycoller and Winewall to At any given time it is name just a few. There are virtually impossible not feats of engineering like the to be gazing upon Pendle, amazing mile long tunnel on Lenches, , Mire the Leeds Liverpool Canal, Ridge and Noyna Rocks with Bronte connections in which together form a historic Wycoller. However, sumptuous backdrop to the it is perfectly possible to town. There are also pretty devote a couple of days to villages well worth visiting... exploring Colne, visiting , , our Grade I Listed church, mooching round the shops, following heritage and other walking trails and sampling the lively cafés.

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Your home sweet home Colne’s Victorian past is everywhere you look. Those serried ranks of hover around £50,000, stone terraces, marching a truly amazing price to down the slopes of the get your feet on the ridge, housed the workers property ladder. £100,000 in the cotton mills which can buy you a typical made the town famous back two bed terrace, while by then. The mills have largely doubling the budget, you disappeared, but much of can secure a family sized, the architecture remains, three to four bedroom so that Colne offers a range home. £300,000 is the of housing at surprisingly typical price for a modern affordable prices. In fact, four bed house on the house prices in Colne periphery of town. Country are among the lowest in houses with land can be . One bedroom flats snapped up for between £500,000 and a million.

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Keeping fit What’s the catch? Well, there isn’t one. It’s a hackneyed phrase, but Colne is ’s undiscovered secret. It is a swimming pool and sports town with access to miles hall. It even has some leisure and miles of glorious walks facilities you might not and cycle routes, while at expect, like a pump track the same time offering for cycling in addition to all the facilities a family the six-mile cycling and would expect, like parks, a bridle trail over the moors at . There is a sailing club on one of the reservoirs, a nine hole golf course, a tennis club and a shooting club. WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE ANYWHERE ELSE? COME TO COLNE!

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