Blackburn - Izeria

Blackburn est une ville britannique de 105 085 habitants. Elle dépendait du Lancashire mais relève depuis 1998 de l'autorité unitaire de Blackburn et Darwen. La population est d'environ 140 000 habitants en incluant l'agglomération urbaine de Darwen. La ville du club de football de Blackburn Rovers Football Club a été pendant la Révolution industrielle un centre textile important.

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Blackburn railway station

Blackburn railway station serves the town of Blackburn, in Lancashire, England. It is 12 miles (19 km) east of Preston; it is managed and served by Northern Trains.

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Blackburn Rural District

Blackburn was a rural district in Lancashire from 1894 to 1974. It was named after, but did not include Blackburn, which was an independent county borough. It surrounded Blackburn on the north and western sides, and also included an exclave on the south-eastern side of Blackburn, consisting of the parishes of Yate and Pickup Bank and Eccleshill. It was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894. It lost the parish of Witton to Blackburn in the 1930s. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the district was abolished. Its territory was split between the new districts of Blackburn and Ribble Valley.

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Blackburn Boulevard bus station

Blackburn Boulevard bus station served the town of Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The bus station was situated adjacent to the Blackburn railway station and the town's Cathedral in the town centre. The main operators from the bus station were Lancashire United; the company acquired the formerly municipal company Blackburn Transport in January 2007. Other services were operated by Stagecoach North West, Rosso, M&M Coaches, Holmeswood Coaches, J&S Travel and Darwen Coach Services. There are also infrequent coach services of National Express. Buses travelled from the bus station around the Blackburn with Darwen area and went as far afield as Burnley, Rawtenstall, Bolton, Manchester, Preston and Clitheroe. On 22 September 2013, the Boulevard closed, to pave the way for the redevelopment of the Cathedral Quarter. All bus services served an interim bus station on the former market site, pending the opening of a new bus station on a new site 200 yards (200 m) to the north of the Boulevard site, which officially opened on Sunday, 1 May 2016. Construction began in March 2014, and the first windows were installed in March 2015. Originally, the bus station was due to open in January 2015, as announced in October 2014. It was then delayed to June 2015, then later to December. In September 2015, it was delayed again, this time to 2016.

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Blackburn Cathedral

Blackburn Cathedral, officially known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary the Virgin with Saint Paul, is an Anglican (Church of England) cathedral situated in the heart of Blackburn town centre, in Lancashire, England. The cathedral site has been home to a church for over a thousand years and the first stone church was built there in Norman times.

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BBC Radio Lancashire

BBC Radio Lancashire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Lancashire in England. Originally launched as BBC Radio Blackburn, it expanded in 1981 to cover the whole county and was renamed BBC Radio Lancashire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on Darwen Street in Blackburn. According to RAJAR, the station had a weekly audience of 167,000 listeners in June 2025.

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