Blackburn

Blackburn is a town in Lancashire, England. It misleads the north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, 9 miles east of Preston, 20.9 miles NNW of Manchester and 9 miles north of the Greater Manchester fringe. Blackburn is limited toward the south by Darwen, with which it shapes the unitary specialist of Blackburn with Darwen; Blackburn is its managerial focus. At the season of the UK Government's 2001 statistics, Blackburn had a populace of 105,085, while the more extensive district of Blackburn with Darwen had a populace of 140,700. Blackburn had a populace of 117,963 out of 2011, a gigantic increment since 2001.

A previous factory town, materials have been delivered in Blackburn since the center of the thirteenth century, when fleece was woven in individuals' homes in the residential framework. Flemish weavers who settled in the territory amid the fourteenth century built up the woolen house industry. James Hargreaves, creator of the turning jenny, was a weaver in Oswaldtwistle close Blackburn and the most quick time of development and advancement in Blackburn's history concurred with the industrialisation and extension of material assembling. Blackburn was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution and among the main industrialized towns on the planet.