North West England
Lancashire
Pendle District

Nelson

Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire. It was developed as a mill town during the industrial revolution, but today has lost much of its industry.
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  • Type: Town with 29,300 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England
  • Also known as: “Nelson (England)” and “Nelson, Lancashire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nelson railway station and St Mary’s Church, Nelson.

Railway station
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Nelson in , ; it is situated on the East Lancashire Line, 2 miles away from the terminus at . The station is managed by Northern Trains, which also provides its passenger service.

Church
Photo: RailwayJG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Mary's Church is on Manchester Road in Nelson, Pendle, . It is a redundant Anglican , and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

Church
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a church and local ecumenical partnership in Nelson, Lancashire, England. It is situated on Carr Road in the town centre. The building has been shared by the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the Roman Catholic Church since 2004 – a rare example of an ecumenical union between Methodists and Roman Catholics.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brierfield and Colne.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle, in , England. It is 3 miles north east of , 1 mile south west of Nelson, and 1 mile north east of Reedley.

Town
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is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in , England. The town is 3 miles northeast of Nelson, 6 miles northeast of and 25 mi east of . is situated 2 miles northeast of Nelson.

Nelson

Latitude
53.8363° or 53° 50′ 11″ north
Longitude
-2.2116° or 2° 12′ 42″ west
Population
29,300
Elevation
558 feet (170 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB NLN
Open location code
9C5VRQPQ+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26703084
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2641810
Wiki­data ID
Q1857774
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Nelson” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Nelson”
  • Basque: “Nelson (Lancashire)”
  • Basque: “Nelson”
  • Bengali: “নেলসন”
  • Cebuano: “Nelson”
  • Chinese: “尼尔森”
  • Chinese: “尼爾森”
  • Chinese: “納爾遜”
  • Chinese: “纳尔逊”
  • Dutch: “Nelson”
  • French: “Nelson”
  • German: “Nelson”
  • Gujarati: “નેલ્સન”
  • Hebrew: “נלסון (לנקשייר)”
  • Irish: “Nelson”
  • Italian: “Nelson”
  • Japanese: “ネルソン (ランカシャー)”
  • Japanese: “ネルソン”
  • Kannada: “ನೆಲ್ಸನ್”
  • Korean: “넬슨”
  • Ladin: “Nelson”
  • Lithuanian: “Nelsonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nelson”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nelson”
  • Persian: “نلسون، لانکاشر”
  • Polish: “Nelson”
  • Portuguese: “Nelson”
  • Romanian: “Nelson, Lancashire”
  • Russian: “Нельсон”
  • Slovenian: “Nelson, Lancashire”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نلسون، لانکاشر”
  • Spanish: “Nelson”
  • Swedish: “Nelson, Lancashire”
  • Tamil: “நெல்சன்”
  • Telugu: “నెల్సన్”
  • Turkish: “Nelson, Lancashire”
  • Turkish: “Nelson”
  • Ukrainian: “Нельсон”
  • Urdu: “نیلسن، انگلینڈ”
  • Urdu: “نیلسن”
  • Volapük: “Nelson”
  • Welsh: “Nelson, Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
  • Welsh: “Nelson”

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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 “Nelson”. Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.