Blackrod
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Blackrod is a town and civil parish situated within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. Nestled in the historic County of Lancashire, Blackrod is approximately northeast of Wigan and west of Bolton. According to the United Kingdom Census of 2021, the town has a population of 5,345.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Blackrod
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Katharine's Church.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Blackrod's parish church of St Katharine
- UK place.population
- 5,345
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SD615105
- UK place.london_distance
- SE
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Bolton
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- Greater Manchester
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- BOLTON
- UK place.postcode_area
- BL
- UK place.postcode_district
- BL6
- UK place.dial_code
- 01942/01204
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Bolton West
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Bolton
- Population
- 5001
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- St Katharine's Church.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01204
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- postal code
- BL6
- Commons category
- Blackrod
- OS grid reference
- SD615105
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Governance
- Geography
- Demography
- Population change
- Education
- Religion
- Transport
- Media
- Notable people
- Sport
- See also
- References
- External links
Blackrod is a town and civil parish situated within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. Nestled in the historic County of Lancashire, Blackrod is approximately northeast of Wigan and west of Bolton. According to the United Kingdom Census of 2021, the town has a population of 5,345.
Blackrod was once a centre for coal mining.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blackrod” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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