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Hollins Lane is a village near the village of Forton, in the Wyre District, in the English county of
Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
. The village has the
Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway The Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway opened its twenty-mile line in 1840 in Lancashire, England. The company was not commercially successful. When the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway opened in 1846, the L&PJR became part of a busy trunk rai ...
running through it but there is no station.


Amenities

Hollins Lane has a place of worship, a post office and a pub, the New Holly.


Nearby settlements

Nearby settlements include the town of
Garstang Garstang is an ancient market town and civil parish within the Wyre borough of Lancashire, England. It is north of the city of Preston and the same distance south of Lancaster. In 2011, the parish had a total resident population of 4,268 ...
, the village of Forton and the hamlet of
Shireshead Shireshead is a hamlet near Forton, Lancashire. It includes an Anglican church, St James', which was designed by the Leeds-based architectural firm Kelly & Birchall and built in 1887–90. References Hamlets in Lancashire Geography of t ...
.


Location grid


Transport

For transport there is the M6 motorway and the
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nearby.


References

* http://www.newholly.co.uk Villages in Lancashire Geography of the Borough of Wyre {{Lancashire-geo-stub