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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: River Douglas, Chorley, Blackburn, Bolton, Rivington, Horwich, Darwen, Anglezarke, Turton Urban District, William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, Winter Hill transmitting station, Haslingden, Heapey, Longworth, Lancashire, River Yarrow, Tockholes, Edgworth, Quarlton, Sharples, Greater Manchester, River Roddlesworth, Hollinshead Hall, Oswaldtwistle, Duxbury Woods, River Tonge, Anglezarke Reservoir, Belmont, Lancashire, Holcombe, Greater Manchester, Brinscall, Entwistle railway station, Eagley Brook, Bradshaw Brook, Bradshaw, Greater Manchester, Yarrow Reservoir, South Turton, Bromley Cross, Withnell, North Turton, White Coppice, Dean Brook, Astley Brook, Entwistle, Lancashire, Healey Nab, Pikestones, Chapeltown, Lancashire, Lower Rivington Reservoir, Abbey Village, Round Loaf, The Street, Upper Rivington Reservoir, Wheelton, Black Brook, Jumbles Country Park, High Bullough Reservoir, Haslingden Grane, Hawkshaw, Greater Manchester, Lower Roddlesworth Reservoir, Upper Roddlesworth Reservoir, Abbey Village Reservoir, Rake Brook Reservoir, River Chor, The Goit, Rivington Water Treatment Works, Green Withins Brook. Excerpt: 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, 9 miles (14 km) east of the city of Preston, 27 miles (43 km) north-northwest of the city of Manchester. and is 13 miles (21 km) north of the border with Greater 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 of Blackburn with Darwen had a population of 140,700. A former mill town, textiles have been produced in Blackburn sin...
