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Lancashire. 53°50′05″N 2°13′05″W / 53.8346°N 2.2180°W / 53.8346; -2.2180. Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, it had a population of 29,135 in the 2011 Census. Nelson is 3 miles (5 km) north of Burnley and 2 miles (3 km) south-west of Colne.
Listed buildings in Nelson, Lancashire. Nelson is a town and civil parish in Pendle, Lancashire, England. It contains 38 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the town of Nelson and ...
William Roberts and Company (later William Roberts and Sons) of Phoenix Foundry in Nelson, Lancashire, England, produced many of the steam engines that powered cotton weaving and spinning mills of Pendle and neighbouring districts. [1] Industrial historian Mike Rothwell has called Phoenix foundry “Nelson’s most significant engineering site”.
Lancashire had a long history of supplying wool to skilled weavers in Europe and southern England, as well as having many cottager weavers itself by the 18th century. But the advent of increased imports of cotton needing processing was a trigger to innovation. John Kay, Richard Arkwright, Samuel Crompton, and James Hargreaves were from Lancashire.
The M65 terminates west of the town and from here two main roads take traffic onwards towards the Yorkshire towns of Skipton (A56) and Keighley (A6068). Colne railway station is the terminus of the East Lancashire railway line. Colne adjoins the Pendle parishes of Foulridge, Laneshaw Bridge, Trawden Forest, Nelson, Barrowford and Blacko.
Lancashire. Lancashire (/ ˈlæŋkəʃər / LAN-kə-shər, /- ʃɪər / -sheer; abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The county has an area of 3,079 ...
Ashurst Beacon, Dalton Barnoldswick Carnforth Station Forest of Bowland, Ward's stone Helmshore Museum Lathom House, West Wing Ormskirk Market Rufford Old Hall Sunderland Point, River Lune Tarleton Lock, Leeds and Liverpool Canal Winter Hill mast
This is a list of settlements in Lancashire by population based on the results of the 2011 census. In 2011, there were 49 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Lancashire, shown in the table below. A more recent United Kingdom census took place in 2021, but as of March 2024, the subdivision data has not yet been published.