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LancashireAI

AI automation across Blackburn with Darwen.

We work with businesses in all 75 towns and villages in the district.

Villages and smaller places we also cover

These are served from the same team on the same terms. They are listed here rather than given a page each, because a page that only restates the district page helps nobody.

North Turton

Rural West Pennine Moors parish created in 1974, covering Edgworth, Chapeltown, Belmont, Entwistle and Quarlto...

Edgworth

Former textile and farming village now driven by walking tourism, pubs and B&Bs, with reservoirs on its doorst...

Hoddlesden

Weaving and coal mining village; Vernon Carus ran a healthcare products mill here until 2003, and it is now la...

Belmont

Around 20 small firms occupy the converted former bleach works, including engineering, architectural ironwork,...

Tockholes

Moorland farming parish; the Silk Hall Fold cottages were built in the 17th century for silk weavers.

Pleasington

Rural parish with Pleasington Priory, one of only two Grade I listed buildings in the borough, plus a nature r...

Yate and Pickup Bank

Moorland parish containing the hamlets of Bank Fold and Pickup Bank plus part of Belthorn village.

Eccleshill

Parish containing Shaws of Darwen, the fireclay sink and architectural terracotta works that was Darwen's larg...

Audley

Bank Fold

Bank Hey

Bank Top

Bastwell

Beardwood

Belthorn

Moorland village of old weavers' cottages, divided between Blackburn with Darwen and Hyndburn.

Blackamoor

Stands where the B6231 crosses the ancient Manchester to Ribchester road, south of Blackburn.

Blacksnape

Upland hamlet above Darwen towards Hoddlesden, gateway to the Darwen moorland quarry landscape

Brookhouse

Brownhill

Cadshaw

Farming hamlet on the A666 between Darwen and Bolton.

Chapels

Residential district on the eastern side of Darwen served by the borough bus network, adjoining Hoddlesden Roa...

Chapeltown

Stone terraced cottage village that was the historic administrative centre of the old Turton Urban District.

Cherry Tree

Residential suburb with its own station on the East Lancashire line, mostly within Livesey parish.

Daisyfield

Earcroft

One of Darwen's five council wards.

Entwistle

Reservoir hamlet with a station on the Blackburn to Bolton line, popular with walkers and anglers.

Ewood

Home of Ewood Park, Blackburn Rovers' stadium.

Feniscliffe

Feniscowles

Home to the Sappi Blackburn paper mill, built in 1875 as the Star Paper Mill; the rival Sun Paper Mill closed...

Four Lane Ends

Griffin

Grimshaw

One of the three hamlets of Eccleshill parish, on the route of the former Hoddlesden Branch railway.

Grimshaw Park

Guide

Industrial and office development followed the M65 extension in 1997; also has a micro-brewery and sports club...

Higher Audley

Higher Croft

Hollin Bank

Hollins Grove

Intack

Knuzden Brook

Lammack

Little Harwood

Mixed housing, industrial units and open land at Blackburn's northern edge; birthplace of steel magnate and Ro...

Longshaw

Lower Darwen

Sits at junction 4 of the M65; the former ROF Blackburn munitions site is now housing, alongside roadside hote...

Marsh House

One of Darwen's five council wards.

Moorgate

Over Darwen

Historic name for the upper part of Darwen township.

Pickup Bank

Moorland hamlet whose Grade II listed former Sunday school chapel survives.

Pleckgate

Quarlton

Former township whose 19th century economy rested on collieries and the Quarlton Vale calico print works.

Queen's Park

Revidge

Roe Lee

Round Barn

Small moorland hamlet listed by North Turton parish alongside Entwistle and Quarlton; agricultural and reservo...

Royshaw Hill

Ryal Fold

Hamlet within Tockholes civil parish, main visitor entrance to Roddlesworth Woods and the Darwen Tower walk

Shadsworth

Large post-war council estate that gives its name to the Shadsworth with Whitebirk ward.

Sough

Spring Vale

Darwen district built around the Spring Vale paper and wallpaper mills, close to the West Pennine Moors edge

Sudell

One of Darwen's five council wards.

Sunnybower

Sunnyhurst

Darwen council ward on the wooded western side of the town.

Turton Bottoms

Hamlet in North Turton civil parish on Bradshaw Brook; former textile bleaching and spinning site, Bolton post...

Waterside

Site of the Shaws of Darwen factory, opened 1908, making fireclay sinks and architectural terracotta.

Wensley Fold

Whalley Range

Whinny Heights

Whitebirk

Industrial and retail district: Greenbank Business Park, a cluster of main-dealer car showrooms, and the Peel...

Whitehall

One of Darwen's five council wards.

Whittlestone Head

Hamlet in North Turton parish on the edge of the West Pennine Moors above Entwistle reservoir

Witton

Older terraced streets beside Witton Country Park on the River Darwen.

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