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Blackburn

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.

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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
UK place.dial_code: 01254
UK place.os_grid_reference: SD685277
UK place.london_distance: SSE
UK place.pushpin_map: United Kingdom Blackburn
UK place.website: https://www.blackburn.gov.uk/

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Wikidata facts

Population: 117963
Area: 24.5
Official website: www.blackburn.gov.uk
Image: Blackburn Lancashire Townscape.jpg
Dialing code: 01254

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Commons category: Blackburn
OS grid reference: SD685277
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Contents

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

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.