Blackburn
Sign in to savethumb|Blackburn Skyline with the Blackburn Cathedral|Cathedral and Town Hall Tower Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north-northwest of Manchester. Blackburn is at the centre of the wider unitary authority area along with the town of Darwen. It is the second largest town (after Blackpool) in Lancashire.
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Blackburn is an industrial town in Lancashire, England, and serves as the administrative centre for the Blackburn with Darwen borough, making it the second-largest town in the county after Blackpool. Located between Preston and Manchester in the Ribble Valley region, it functions as the central hub for its wider local authority area alongside the town of Darwen.
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.type
- Town
- UK place.population
- 120,500
- UK place.population_demonym
- Blackburnian
- UK place.official_name
- Blackburn
- UK place.unitary_england
- Blackburn with Darwen
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Lancashire
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Blackburn
- UK place.post_town
- BLACKBURN
- UK place.postcode_district
- BB1, BB2
- UK place.postcode_area
- BB
Article
57 sectionsContents
- History
- Toponymy
- Prehistory
- Roman era
- Roman temple spring at All Hallows
- Middle Ages
- Industrial Revolution and textiles
- 1800s
- 20th-century decline of the cotton industry
- 1948 mass fingerprinting
- 1948–1999
- 21st-century revitalisation
- Governance
- Local government
- Parliamentary representation
- Coat of arms
- Politics
- Geography
- Geology and terrain
- Green belt
- Demography
- Ethnicity
- Economy
- Transport
- Railway
- Buses
- Air
- Waterways
- Roads
- Landmarks
- Cathedral
- Ewood Park
- Queen Victoria's statue
- Town Hall
- Technical School
- Cotton Exchange
- Other landmarks
- Parks
- Libraries
- Education
- Local media
- Sport
- Football
- Ice hockey
- Cricket
- Cultural references
- St Peter's Burial Ground
- Notable people
- Politics and industry
- Arts and music
- Sport
- Sciences
- Twin towns
- See also
- Notes and references
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|Blackburn Skyline with the Blackburn Cathedral|Cathedral and Town Hall Tower Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north-northwest of Manchester. Blackburn is at the centre of the wider unitary authority area along with the town of Darwen. It is the second largest town (after Blackpool) in Lancashire.
At the 2011 census, Blackburn had a population of 117,963, whilst the wider borough of Blackburn with Darwen had a population of 150,030; 30.8% of the population of town were people of ethnic backgrounds other than white British.