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  • Type: Town with 26,900 residents
  • Description: town and an unparished area in Greater Manchester, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Farnworth, Greater Manchester”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Farnworth Town Hall and Farnworth railway station.

Town hall
Photo: David Ingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a municipal building in Market Street, Farnworth, , England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Farnworth Borough Council, is a grade II listed building.

Railway station
Photo: Peter Whatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Farnworth, in the , . The station underwent several name changes before the present name was adopted in 1974.

Church
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St John the Evangelist's Church is in Church Street, Farnworth, , England. It is an active Anglican in the deanery of Bolton, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the diocese of Manchester.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kearsley and Prestolee.

Town
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in the , , England. The population at the 2011 census was 14,212. Within the Historic County of , it lies 8 miles northwest of , 5 miles southwest of and 3+3⁄4 miles south of .

Village
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is a small village in , within the , in , England. It lies on the River Irwell and is one of a cluster of villages between and Kearsley, which includes Stoneclough and .

Suburb
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is an area of , in , England. Historically part of , the area lies on the B6209, between Bolton and .

Farnworth

Latitude
53.5486° or 53° 32′ 55″ north
Longitude
-2.397° or 2° 23′ 49″ west
Population
26,900
Elevation
335 feet (102 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB FNW
Open location code
9C5VGJX3+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30686744
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2649650
Wiki­data ID
Q1397011
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Farnworth” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فارنورث”
  • Asturian: “Farnworth”
  • Basque: “Farnworth”
  • Belarusian: “Фарнуорт”
  • Catalan: “Farnworth”
  • Cebuano: “Farnworth”
  • Chinese: “法恩沃思”
  • Chinese: “法恩沃斯”
  • Dutch: “Farnworth”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فارنورث”
  • French: “Farnworth”
  • German: “Farnworth”
  • Hebrew: “פארנוורת‘”
  • Irish: “Farnworth”
  • Italian: “Farnworth”
  • Ladin: “Farnworth”
  • Luxembourgish: “Farnworth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Farnworth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Farnworth”
  • Persian: “فارنورث”
  • Polish: “Farnworth”
  • Portuguese: “Farnworth”
  • Romanian: “Farnworth”
  • Russian: “Фарнуэрт”
  • Silesian: “Farnworth”
  • Spanish: “Farnworth (Gran Mánchester)”
  • Spanish: “Farnworth”
  • Swedish: “Farnworth”
  • Ukrainian: “Фарнворт”
  • Welsh: “Farnworth”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Farnworth”. Photo: David Ingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.