Darwen

Darwen is a market town and common area situated in Lancashire, England. Alongside its northerly neighbor, Blackburn, it frames the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen a unitary specialist zone. It is referred to locally as "Darren" and its occupants are known as "Darreners". The primary street through Darwen is the A666 towards Blackburn toward the north and Bolton toward the south, and eventually at the Pendlebury limit with Irlams o' th' Height where it joins the A6, around 4 miles north-west of Manchester.

The region around Darwen has been occupied since the early Bronze Age, and the remaining parts of a dump cart from roughly 2000 BC have been mostly reestablished at the Ashleigh Barrow in Whitehall. Antiquities including a bronze knife and urns containing human slag were found, and few these finds are presently in plain view at Darwen Library Theater. The Romans once had a power in Lancashire, and a Roman street is unmistakable on the Ordnance Survey guide of the region. Medieval Darwen was minor; little or nothing survives.