Worsthorne: what to know before moving day
The square is the heart of the village: the church of St John the Evangelist, designed by Lewis Vulliamy and built in 1834 to 1835, overlooks a small green with the Bay Horse beside it, and the Crooked Billet is on Smith Street. Nos 11, 13 and 15 Church Square began as six back-to-back cottages in the 18th century. Jackson's Farmhouse and Cottage, probably of about 1600, and Wallstreams, an early 17th-century farmhouse, are both listed and both now split into two homes.
Around them are cottages from the 16th and 17th centuries and terraces built for mill workers, with a former cotton mill on Gordon Street. Short streets such as Higgin Street, Chapel Street, Hall Street and Water Street sit inside a 20 mph zone. In an old farmhouse cottage, check the stair width and any low doorways before a large wardrobe or sofa is booked.
How the van gets to Worsthorne
Four roads run into the square: Gorple Road, Extwistle Road, Brownside Road and Ormerod Street, which the primary school once used as the names of its houses. From Burnley, one way in is Brunshaw Road, which joins Brownside Road, past Worsthorne Primary School. The limit drops to 20 mph in the village.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 55 to 70 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Also covered around Worsthorne
Brownside.
Services for Worsthorne
Each service below links to its Burnley page, which covers how the job works in and around Burnley.
Worsthorne: questions before you book
Is Worsthorne in Burnley borough or a village of its own?
Both. It is in the Borough of Burnley but is a separate village with its own parish, Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood, and it sits in the Cliviger with Worsthorne ward. Bus route 4 runs between Worsthorne and Burnley.
Where is the easiest place to meet the van in Worsthorne?
Church Square, where the four roads meet, is the landmark everyone knows. For the move itself give the exact house and postcode, as the van needs to stop outside the property, not in the square.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): BB10 3NT is in Cliviger with Worsthorne ward, Burnley, parish of Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood
- Worsthorne (Wikipedia): eastern outskirts of Burnley, village green with church and Bay Horse, 16th and 17th-century cottages, millworkers' housing, former cotton mill on Gordon Street, Crooked Billet, four roads (Gorple, Extwistle, Brownside, Ormerod) meeting in the square and the school houses named after them, school serving Brownside, bus route 4
- Listed buildings in Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List for England): St John the Evangelist by Lewis Vulliamy 1834-35, 11-15 Church Square (six back-to-back cottages), Jackson's Farmhouse and Cottage c. 1600, Wallstreams early 17th century
- OpenStreetMap: Brownside Road (20 mph in the village), Ormerod Street, Gorple Road, Extwistle Road, Church Square, Bay Horse, Crooked Billet on Smith Street, Worsthorne Primary School on Brownside Road, Higgin Street, Chapel Street, Hall Street, Water Street; Brownside Road joining Brunshaw Road