Blackburn is a large
town in Lancashire, England. It lies to the north of
the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, 8.9 miles (14.3 km) east of the city
of Preston, and 21 miles (34 km) north-northwest of
the city of Manchester. Blackburn is bounded to the
south by Darwen, with which it forms the unitary
authority area of Blackburn with Darwen, Blackburn
being the administrative centre. At the time of the
UK Government's 2001 census, Blackburn had a
population of 105,085,whilst the wider borough had a
population of 137,470.
A former mill town, textiles have been produced in
Blackburn since the middle of the 13th century, when
locally produced wool was woven in people's houses.
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