Gigg Lane
Gigg Lane, also known as the JD Stadium for sponsorship purposes is an all-seater football stadium in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It was built for Bury F.C.
Darwen is a market town and civil parish located in Lancashire, England. Along with its northerly neighbour, Blackburn, it forms the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen — a unitary authority area. It is known locally as "Darren" or in quick speech (throughout Lancashire), as "Daa(r)n," or "Darun" or most commonly "Daaa-win," and its residents are known as "Darreners" or "Daane(r)s." The main road through Darwen is the A666 towards Blackburn to the north and Bolton to the south, and ultimately at the Pendlebury boundary with Irlams o' th' Height where it joins the A6, about 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Manchester. Darwen's population decreased to 28,046 in 2011 and is made up of five wards.
Population: 32,566
Latitude: 53° 41' 52.91" N
Longitude: -2° 27' 53.78" W
Gigg Lane, also known as the JD Stadium for sponsorship purposes is an all-seater football stadium in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It was built for Bury F.C.
The Winter Hill transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications site on Winter Hill, at the southern boundary of the Borough of Chorley, and above Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.
Thwaites Brewery is a regional brewery founded in 1807 by Daniel Thwaites in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The firm still operates from its original town centre site. A variety of cask ales, draught beers, lagers and ciders are produced in Blackbu…
Clitheroe Castle in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, is a motte-and-bailey castle built on a natural carboniferous limestone outcrop.
Ramsbottom United F.C. are an English football club based in Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester. They play in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, having been promoted from the Northern Premier League Division One North in the 2013-14 season. T…
The M65 is a motorway in Lancashire, England.
The Cuerdale Hoard is a hoard of more than 8,600 items, including silver coins, English and Carolingian jewellery, hacksilver and ingots. It was discovered on 15 May 1840 on the southern bank of a bend of the River Ribble, in an area called Cuerdale…
The Crown Ground is a multi-use stadium in Accrington, Lancashire, England. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Accrington Stanley.
Accrington bricks, or NORIs is a type of iron hard engineering brick, produced in Altham near Accrington, Lancashire, England from 1887 to 2008 and again from 2015. They were famed for their strength, and were used for the foundations of the Blackpo…
Wigan and Leigh College is a state General Further and Higher Education College based at six locations in the towns of Wigan and Leigh in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Currently there are over 1,000 staff members employed, and more th…
Leigh Sports Village is a £50 million multi-use sports, retail and housing development in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. Leigh Sports Village plays host to three of the town's sporting clubs. Amateur rugby league club, Leigh East and amateur at…
Hyndburn /ˈhɪndbərn/ is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England whose council is based in Accrington and the district is named after the River Hyndburn.
South Ribble is a non-metropolitan district and borough of Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Leyland.
Samlesbury Aerodrome is a disused airfield at Balderstone near Samlesbury, in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire. The aerodrome is owned by defence company BAE Systems which uses the site for manufacturing of several aircraft types. Currently …
Gawthorpe Hall is an Elizabethan country house on the banks of the River Calder, in the civil parish of Ightenhill in the Borough of Burnley, Lancashire, England. Its estate extends into Padiham, with the Stockbidge Drive entrance situated there. Si…
The Bolton Massacre, sometimes recorded as the Storming of Bolton, was an event in the English Civil War which happened on 28 May 1644. The strongly Parliamentarian town was stormed and captured by Royalist forces under Prince Rupert. It was alleged…
Blackburn Cathedral, officially known as the Cathedral Church of Blackburn Saint Mary the Virgin with St Paul, is an Anglican (Church of England) cathedral situated in the heart of Blackburn town centre, in Lancashire, England.
Ye Olde Man & Scythe public house on Churchgate, in Bolton, England was first recorded by name in 1251, making it one of the ten oldest public houses in Britain and the oldest in Bolton.