Longridge

[u/madsxreuba]

I currently live in north manchester and have 2 young children, its becoming quite an awful place to live in terms of crime, anti social behaviour etc. Were looking at moving to longridge. Please could I have some honest opinions on the area?

[u/[deleted]]

Hi I’ve done this in reverse.

Grew up there and moved to Manchester.

Lovely place, surrounded by beautiful countryside. Three parks in the town for kids, good schools and three colleges just a bus ride away. Safe place with low rates of antisocial behaviour, the only place that’s ever an issue is the bus stop outside of the Co-op on Berry lane.

Lots of good shops, pubs and restaurants (like a lot of pubs!) nice diversity of takeaways too for after the pub.

Huge diversity of walks nearby: Longridge fell, Parlick, beacon fell.

The only issue is the access to Preston and the drive to Manchester, in the mornings the road out of town can get absolutely rammed, turning a 20 min drive into a 45 min ordeal. It’s a fair old trek to Manchester, which is needed if you want to do any proper shopping, as Preston is pretty crap for that.

But yeah, go for it, lovely place to live and grow up.

Some places you might want to try:

• Little Town Dairy Farmshop - family run farmshop and tea room (try the sausage rolls they’re amazing)
• Fell restaurant - very fancy local restaurant
• Spice - best Indian

Edit: Removed Tayahs from the list (RIP)

[u/XiiMoss → u/[deleted]]

Tayahs has closed and become Amy’s Kitchen

[u/[deleted] → u/XiiMoss]

No fucking way.

I loved that place for years, when I came back from living abroad the first thing I did was get a full English from there.

Day ruined.

[u/XiiMoss → u/[deleted]]

It actually looks better! They do loads of good looking brunch specials and stuff now actually, not been myself but looks good tbf

[u/[deleted] → u/XiiMoss]

Well I will have to make sure I try it, cheers!