Hallmark Hotel Leyland: the corridor hotel south of Preston

The southern corridor entry, and the one searched as often for the Leyland-to-Preston journey as for the hotel.

Hallmark Hotel Leyland sits south of Preston at Leyland, on the corridor between the city and Chorley. It is a corridor hotel, booked for access, not for character.

Leyland is a town in its own right and no kind of Preston suburb, and a good deal of the search around this entry is about the journey between the two, not about the hotel — which is a reminder that a directory entry often answers a geography question instead of a booking one.

The city centre is a short drive north. Travel covers the connections.

The southern corridor

Leyland has its own centre and its own name, which is why so much of the search around this entry is about getting from the one town to the other. The road frame is on the places to stay sheet.

Leyland is the southern counterpart to the A6 group north of the city, and it has a distinct industrial history of its own: the town was built around vehicle manufacturing and the name still carries that association. It sits between the M6 and the M61, which makes it one of the best-connected points in the district and explains why hotel provision collected here as well.

Between two cities

The position is genuinely between things. Preston is a short drive north, Chorley is close to the south east, and Manchester is reachable down the M61 in well under an hour. For a stay that is not solely about Preston, the southern corridor does more work than a central hotel; Shaw Hill occupies a similar position slightly further towards Chorley.

For the city itself this is a drive of around six miles. Leyland has its own railway station on the West Coast Main Line, which makes the train into Preston a real option from here, unlike from most of the entries in this category.

What else is south of the centre

South of Preston the land rises gradually towards the West Pennine Moors, and the country between Leyland, Chorley and the moors edge is the least-visited approach to the city. Quiet lanes, reservoirs and wooded valleys — a different landscape entirely from the Ribble corridor that dominates Preston's own outdoor sheets, and one Shaw Hill sits inside.

Leyland's own history is vehicle manufacturing, and the town was built around it; the name still carries the association. That industrial past is the southern counterpart to the cotton history that built central Preston.