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Burnley (/ ˈ b ɜːr n l i /) is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. [2] It is 21 miles (34 km) north of Manchester and 20 miles (32 km) east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun.
The Borough of Burnley (/ ˈ b ɜːr n l i /) is a local government district with the borough status in Lancashire, England.It has an area of 42.9 square miles (111 km 2) and a population of 95,553 (2022), and is named after its largest town, Burnley.
Burnley Football Club (/ ˈ b ɜːr n l i /) is a professional football club based in Burnley, Lancashire, England.The club competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football, following relegation from the Premier League in 2023–24.
The site selected for the new building was a just to the southwest of the Mechanics' Institute which had been built in 1855. [3] The foundation stone for the new building was laid by John Baron, the mayor, in 1885. [2] It was designed by Henry Holtom and George Arthur Fox from Dewsbury in the Renaissance style and was officially opened on 27 ...
The newspaper was founded as the Burnley Express and East Lancashire Observer, by printer George Frankland, from Preston, as an eight-page penny weekly. It was politically Conservative . It merged with the Burnley Advertiser in 1880, becoming the Burnley Express and Advertiser , and in 1886, it became the Burnley Express and Clitheroe Division ...
Turf Moor is an association football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire, England, which has been the home of Burnley Football Club since 1883. This unbroken service makes Turf Moor the second-longest continuously used ground in English professional football.
Burnley Football Club is an English professional association football club founded in 1882. Burnley first played against foreign opposition—Scottish club Cowlairs—in 1885, and embarked on their first overseas tour in 1914, playing sides from the German Empire and Austria-Hungary.
Burnley F.C. Academy are the youth teams of Burnley Football Club. The under-21s currently play in the second level of reserve football in England, the under-21 Professional Development League . The team mainly consists of players under the age of 21 at the club, but does occasionally include first team players.