CRGS 6th Form Centre
All Winter Season Concerts are held in the Lecture Theatre at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Sixth Form Centre, York Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2DJ – Grid Reference SD745421. Car parking is free in the school yard. The Summer Concert is held in the Ribble Valley Borough Council Chamber, Church Street – Grid Reference SD744420, (situated below the Parish Church on the map).
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ON FOOT FROM RAILWAY STATION AND BUS INTERCHANGE
Arriving by train (Manchester/Blackburn line – there is currently no regular service on the Hellifield line), leave the platform and turn right until you come to a tunnel under the railway; turn right and go through. Arriving by bus; with your back to the railway turn right until you come to the tunnel. Immediately across the road from the tunnel is a broad alleyway (not shown on the map) which runs between the back of Dawson’s Department Store and the Health Centre. Go up this, cross the next road and continue, keeping first the car park and then the Ribble Valley Borough Council Offices on your left. Go through the archway by the White Lion, cross the road and down the steps in front of the Library. Turn left onto York Street. Total distance from interchange to school is about ½ mile.
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FROM SKIPTON & NORTH YORKSHIRE
Travelling SW along the A59, ignore the right turn for Chatburn. Continue up the hill and go first under a railway bridge and then a high road bridge in a deep cutting. Just over 1¼ miles after going under the second bridge, turn right at the wide road junction marked Pimlico Industrial Estate and Clitheroe North – A671. After ¾ mile turn left at a roundabout onto Chatburn Road. Go past CRGS Main School on your left, then turn right at a roundabout by a BP filling station. (CRGS Sixth Form Centre is now on your left, but there is no vehicular access at night, you must go round the block). After 150 yards turn left at the next roundabout onto Church Brow/Street (one-way). Pass St. Mary’s Church, then the Ribble Valley Borough Council Chamber (both on your right) and at the bottom of the hill turn sharp left at Clitheroe Library onto York Street.
FROM M6 & PRESTON
From M6 J31 take the A59 signed Blackburn and Clitheroe. After just under 1½ miles fork left at a traffic lights signed Clitheroe. Go past the large BAE Systems factory on your right and take the first exit, at each of three following roundabouts. The first is at Mellor (other exit to Mellor village), the second is a very large one at Langho (other exits here to Whalley and Blackburn) and the third is at Bramley Mead (other exit here to Accrington and Burnley). Continue on what is now a dual carriageway, under a road bridge and straight on at a further roundabout, with McDonald’s on the left. After ½ mile turn left at the next roundabout onto the A671, signed Clitheroe. Follow this road into the town. Just under 1 mile after the town boundary/30 mph sign there is a mini roundabout. Keep straight on, with Sainsbury’s supermarket on your right, then straight on at the next mini roundabout and up Moor Lane shopping street (one way). At the top of the hill, with Clitheroe Castle gates on your left, swing right. As you go down the hill, you will see Clitheroe Library clock ahead of you.
FROM MANCHESTER
Starting from M60/M62 J18 go north on the M66 and onto the non-motorway continuation A56 Edenfield by-pass. After dropping down a long hill, fork left onto the Haslingden by-pass, still A56 signed Blackburn and Clitheroe. At the roundabout take the second exit onto the Accrington Easterly by-pass, still A56. At the bottom of a long hill go straight forward at the roundabout, under the M65 bridge, onto the A6068. After descending again, go straight ahead at the traffic lights and turn left at the second set onto the A671 towards Whalley and Clitheroe, via Read. Bear right at the next traffic lights and straight on at a further set to reach the Bramley Mead roundabout where you turn right onto the A59 dual carriageway. From here continue as from M6/Preston, above.
ALL ROUTES from CLITHEROE LIBRARY
Go down York Street (one way). CRGS Sixth Form Centre is on the left in 300 yards, just after a row of houses. Cars enter via the double gates in the low wall with metal railings. The pedestrian entrance is a single gate just before this. The entrance to the Lecture Theatre is via the door immediately opposite the double gates.
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