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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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Blackburn
Blackburn ( ) is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, 8 mi (13 km) east of Preston and 21 mi (34 km) north-northwest of Manchester. Blackburn is at the centre of the wider unitary authority area along with the town of Darwen. It is the second largest town (after Blackpool) in Lancashire.
At the 2011 census, Blackburn had a population of 117,963, whilst the wider borough of Blackburn with Darwen had a population of 150,030; 30.8% of the population of town were people of ethnic backgrounds other than white British.
A former mill town, Blackburn has been the site of textile production since the mid-13th century, when wool was woven in people's houses in the domestic system. Flemish weavers who settled in the area in the 14th century helped to develop the woollen cottage industry. The most rapid period of growth and development in Blackburn's history coincided with the industrialisation and expansion of textile manufacturing.
Blackburn's textile sector fell into decline from the mid-20th century and subsequently faced similar challenges to other post-industrial northern towns, including deindustrialisation, economic deprivation and housing problems. Blackburn has had significant investment and redevelopment since 1958 through government funding and the European Regional Development Fund.