Darwen
Darwen is a market town and civil parish in the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The residents of the town are known as "Darreners".| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 32,600 residents
- Description: market town in Lancashire, UK
- Also known as: “Darwen, Lancashire”, “Darwen, Lancs”, and “Darwen, UK”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Darwen railway station and St Peter’s Church, Darwen.
Darwen railway station
Railway station
Photo: Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Darwen railway station serves Darwen, a town in Lancashire, England. It was opened in 1847 by the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe & West Yorkshire Railway, which was subsequently taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway twelve years later.
St Peter’s Church, Darwen
Church
Photo: Chris Coleman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Peter's Church is in Bank Street, Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Blackburn with Darwen, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hoddlesden and Lower Darwen.
Hoddlesden
Village
Photo: robert wade, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hoddlesden is a village in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen, in Lancashire, England. The village population at the 2011 census was 1,239. It is in the borough's East Rural ward, and is situated east of Darwen.
Lower Darwen
Village
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lower Darwen is a village in the unitary borough of Blackburn with Darwen, contiguous with the town of Darwen, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. Lower Darwen is situated 2 miles north of Darwen.
Guide
Village
Photo: robert wade, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Guide is a village on the edge of Blackburn, in Lancashire, England. It is located south of the town centre, and the M65 Motorway passes around the south and east of the village, with Junction 5 situated immediately to the southwest of the village. Guide is situated 2½ miles north of Darwen.
Darwen
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Blackburn with Darwen, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.6961° or 53° 41′ 46″ northLongitude
-2.46651° or 2° 27′ 59″ westPopulation
32,600Elevation
564 feet (172 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DWNOpen location code
9C5VMGWM+C9OpenStreetMap ID
node 26703042OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Darwen” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Darwen”
- Basque: “Darwen”
- Bengali: “ডারওয়েন”
- Cebuano: “Darwen”
- Chinese: “达温”
- Chinese: “達溫”
- Dutch: “Darwen”
- French: “Darwen”
- German: “Darwen”
- Greek: “Ντάργουιν”
- Gujarati: “દરવેન”
- Irish: “Darwen”
- Italian: “Darwen”
- Japanese: “ダーウェン”
- Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ವೆನ್”
- Korean: “다윈”
- Ladin: “Darwen”
- Lithuanian: “Darvenas”
- Lithuanian: “Darvinas”
- Macedonian: “Дарвен”
- Northern Frisian: “Darwen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Darwen”
- Persian: “دارون”
- Polish: “Darwen”
- Portuguese: “Darwen”
- Romanian: “Darwen”
- Russian: “Дарвен”
- Russian: “Даруен”
- Russian: “Даруэн”
- South Azerbaijani: “دارون”
- Spanish: “Darwen”
- Swedish: “Darwen”
- Tamil: “டரவென்”
- Telugu: “డార్విన్”
- Turkish: “Darwen”
- Ukrainian: “Дарвен”
- Urdu: “دروین”
- Volapük: “Darwen”
- Welsh: “Darwen”
- Yue Chinese: “達溫”
- “Darwen”
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