Astley Village

Astley Village is a civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, covering a suburb of Chorley. According to the 2011 census, its population was 3,005.

History

Astley was constructed in the 1970s as a new village. The civil parish was created on 1 April 1991, prior to which the village was divided between the unparished area of Chorley and the parish of Euxton.

Community

Astley Village is best known for Astley Park, which hosted the Royal [Lancashire Show] for a number of years.
Long Croft Meadow backs onto Chorley and [South Ribble Hospital|Chorley Hospital], and the main road through the village is Chancery Road. The village is bypassed via West Way, a link road opened in 1984 to take traffic off the busy Chancery Road.