Away day guide: Burnley
Burnley v Fulham
Saturday 13 December, 5.30pm
Fulham fans should be advised that there are limited train services to Burnley both before and after this fixture. All tickets are digital tickets for this match.
The game is also being shown live on Sky Sports.
By Car
The postcode for the Turf Moor Stadium is BB10 4BX. Please note that there will be local road closures approximately two hours before kick-off.
There are two car parks within the stadium, but away fans are advised to park at Burnley Cricket Club (Belvedere Road, Burnley BB10 4BN), which has a capacity of 50 car parking spaces, and is priced between £5 and £7. The cricket club is around two minutes’ walk from Turf Moor and also has a bar that will welcome away supporters.
Where to drink
East Lancashire CAMRA lists a myriad of pubs in Burnley and the surrounding area and maps a pub crawl in.
The ‘Bridge Bier Huis’ in Bank Parade, Burnley has been named the top pub in the West Pennines, covering Lancashire, Cumbria and the Isle of Man by the Campaign for Real Ale
‘The Rifle Volunteer’ (1, Smalley Street) has been named East Lancashire Camra’s ‘Burnley Pub of the Year’, and is a rare outlet for the iconic Draught Bass. Quoting from ‘What Pub’ site: “The pub also has a very rare example of the Burnley-manufactured Ducketts urinals”.
The ‘Coal Clough Pub’ (41, Coal Clough Lane) is near Burnley Manchester Road station and The Massey’s Bitter is brewed to a recipe from their sadly defunct local brewery. Also near the same station are (i) the ‘Ministry of Ale’ (9, Trafalgar Street), Burnley’s only home brew-pub and (ii) ‘Inn on the Wharf’ (Manchester Road), a conversion of an old canal-side warehouse.
In the town centre is ‘New Brew-m’ (St James Row), which serves as the Reedley Hallows brewery tap. The ‘Brun Lea’ (31-39, Manchester Road) is the central Wetherspoon’s and nearby is the ‘Beer Shack’ (22, Manchester Road).
The Talbot Hotel is situated on Church Street in Burnley, less than 5 minutes walk from the town centre. The licensee is a keen real ale enthusiast and supporter of local breweries. Copper Dragon Golden Pippin, Holt’s Bitter and Moorhouse’s Premier Bitter are on tap.
Nearer Turf Moor, it would be a good idea to avoid any pubs on Yorkshire Street if you’re an away fan as they are restricted to home fans only. However, round the back of the away stand there is an away friendly venue in the form of the afore-mentioned Burnley Cricket Club where Fulham fans have been warmly welcomed on our previous visits.
Culinary Burnley
Lancashire is rated as one of the best areas in the country for the production of quality pies and Burnley has branches of two highly rated companies.
Oddie’s, with more than a century of baking experience, has branches at 62, The Mall (in the town centre) and 38, Saint James’s Lane (and nearby Turf Moor) and its potato pie is recommended.
Haffner’s, another local company and dating from 1889, has premises at 14, Keirby Walk, Unit 15, Marlborough Street and Unit 4, Market Hall. Their meat and potato pie scored heavily with the experts and the pork and black pudding pie looks very tempting.
Other than a surfeit of restaurants from the south Asian continent, there appears to be nowhere even vaguely exotic to visit for its cuisine. However, at the junction of Todmorden Road is a reputedly decent kebab joint, ‘Turkish Best Kebab’.
Cultural Burnley
The town’s rich heritage may be traced by visiting the Weavers’ Triangle which consists mostly of 19th-century industrial buildings at the western side of town centre and clustered around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
The imposing Towneley Hall houses an art gallery which includes a large collection of paintings, focusing on romantic Victorian and pre-Raphaelite art. It is found in the sprawling, 180-hectare Towneley Park.
