North West England
Lancashire
Hyndburn District

Accrington

Accrington is a town in East . The town's main visitor attraction is the Tiffany glass collection in its art gallery, and the stark natural beauty of the Pennine moors all around.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Crown Ground and Accrington Library.

Stadium
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The is a multi-use in Accrington, , England. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Accrington Stanley. Opened in 1968, the stadium has a capacity of 5,450.

Library
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is a Carnegie library located in the town of Accrington, . In 1904 a sum of £7,500 was offered to the town by the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for the building of a new library.

Railway station
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Accrington in , . It is a station on the East Lancashire line 6+1⁄4 miles east of operated by Northern Trains.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oswaldtwistle and Clayton-le-Moors.

Town
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in the Hyndburn borough of , England, 3 miles southeast of , contiguous with Accrington. The town has a rich industrial heritage, being home to James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny, and Robert "Parsley" Peel of calico printing fame.

Town
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is an industrial town in the Borough of Hyndburn in the county of , England. located two miles north of Accrington. The town has a population of 8,522 according to the 2011 census.

Village
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is a large village in Hyndburn, , England, situated one mile west of Accrington. The village had a population of 5,186 at the 2011 census, an increase from 3,990 according to the 2001 census.

Accrington

Latitude
53.7541° or 53° 45′ 15″ north
Longitude
-2.3655° or 2° 21′ 56″ west
Population
35,300
Elevation
486 feet (148 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB ACR
Open location code
9C5VQJ3M+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26703043
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2657770
Wiki­data ID
Q1622949
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Accrington” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أكرينجتون”
  • Asturian: “Accrington”
  • Basque: “Accrington”
  • Belarusian: “Акрынгтан”
  • Belarusian: “Экрынгтан”
  • Catalan: “Accrington”
  • Cebuano: “Accrington”
  • Chinese: “艾寧頓”
  • Chinese: “阿克宁顿”
  • Chinese: “阿克寧頓”
  • Czech: “Accrington”
  • Danish: “Accrington”
  • Dutch: “Accrington”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكرينجتون”
  • Esperanto: “Accrington”
  • Finnish: “Accrington”
  • French: “Accrington”
  • German: “Accrington”
  • Greek: “Άκρινγκτον”
  • Hebrew: “אקרינגטון”
  • Icelandic: “Accrington”
  • Indonesian: “Accrington”
  • Irish: “Accrington”
  • Italian: “Accrington”
  • Japanese: “アクリントン”
  • Korean: “애크링턴”
  • Ladin: “Accrington”
  • Lithuanian: “Accrington”
  • Lithuanian: “Akringtonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Accrington”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Accrington”
  • Norwegian: “Accrington”
  • Persian: “آکرینگتون”
  • Polish: “Accrington”
  • Portuguese: “Accrington”
  • Romanian: “Accrington”
  • Russian: “Аккрингтон, Ланкашир”
  • Russian: “Аккрингтон”
  • Russian: “Экрингтон”
  • Silesian: “Accrington”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آکرینقتون”
  • Spanish: “Accrington”
  • Swedish: “Accrington”
  • Turkish: “Accrington”
  • Ukrainian: “Еккрінгтон”
  • Volapük: “Accrington”
  • Welsh: “Accrington”
  • Yue Chinese: “艾寧頓”

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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 “Accrington”. Photo: Benkid77, CC BY-SA 3.0.