Photo via Wikimedia CommonsWindmill, green, independent shops and a genteel afternoon down the coast.
A twenty-minute drive or a short train ride south. Lytham has a white windmill on the green, a row of good independent shops and restaurants, and St Annes has a pier and formal gardens.
Worth half a day if you want a break from the noise.
Measured from each hotel's front door.
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