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Blackburn Hundred depicted in John Speed's 1610 map of Lancashire: Area • 1831: ... is a historic sub-division of the county of Lancashire, ...
Blackburn and the southern town of Darwen as viewed from space by the Landsat 7 satellite in 2000 (false colour image) View north over Lammack and Pleckgate from one of the highest points in Blackburn at the site of the old water tank at Revidge. Located in the midst of the East Lancashire Hills, some areas of the town are characterised by ...
The village is primarily a suburb of Blackburn, off Preston Old Road near the boundary with the borough of Chorley. Many houses in the village have been built since the 1960s, including the Park Farm and Feniscowles Bridge areas. The village is on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Blackburn was a large parish in Lancashire, England The parish had numerous townships and chapelries , which were administered separately from the core Blackburn area, and became recognised as separate civil parishes in 1866.
Blackburn Fire Station Bicentennial 1794 - 1994 Near this spot stood the earliest recorded site of a Fire Station in Blackburn Harry Healless [ 16 ] 6 Top O' Th' Croft, Blackburn 53°43′35″N 2°29′20″W / 53.72636°N 2.48889°W / 53.72636; -2
Lines around Chorley and Blackburn in 1903 (right of diagram) Lines around Wigan in 1907. The Lancashire Union Railway ran between Blackburn and St Helens in Lancashire, England. It was built primarily to carry goods between Blackburn and Garston Dock on the River Mersey, and also to serve collieries in the Wigan area. [1]
The East Lancashire Railway operated from 1844 to 1859 in the historic county of Lancashire, England.It began as a railway from Clifton via Bury to Rawtenstall, and during its short life grew into a complex network of lines connecting towns and cities including Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, Preston, Burnley and Blackburn.
Lower Darwen was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Blackburn, [5] in 1866 Lower Darwen became a separate civil parish, [6] on 25 March 1893 the parish was abolished and merged with Blackburn. [7] In 1891 the parish had a population of 5573. [8] It is now in the unparished area of Blackburn.