Lower Darwen
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 a village in the unitary borough of Blackburn with Darwen, contiguous with the town of Darwen, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. It is located between the towns of Blackburn and Darwen. Nearby places include Ewood and Blackamoor. It is situated in the valley of the River Darwen.
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Worth seeing in and around Lower Darwen
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Ewood Park
Ewood Park is a football stadium in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, and the home of Blackburn Rovers, founding members of the Football League and Premier League, who have played there since 1890. It is an all seater multi-sports facility with a capacity of 31,367, and four sections: the Bryan Douglas Darwen End, The Ronnie Clayton Blackburn End, the Riverside Stand, and Jack Walker Stand, named after Blackburn industrialist and club supporter, Jack Walker.
1.4 km · football stadium in Blackburn, England · Wikipedia - 02Darwen
Darwen is a market town and civil parish in the Blackburn with Darwen borough of Lancashire, England. The residents of the town are known as "Darreners".
2.7 km · market town in Lancashire, UK · Wikipedia - 03Blackburn Cathedral
Blackburn Cathedral, officially known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary the Virgin with Saint Paul, is a Church of England cathedral situated in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The site on which the cathedral stands has been home to a parish church for over a thousand years, and the first stone church was built there in Norman times, though the building was completely rebuilt in the 19th century.
3 km · church in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Jaame Masjid
The Jaame Masjid, also known as the Jaame Masjid Islamic Cultural Centre, is a mosque, located on Lambert Street in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, in the United Kingdom. The congregation was established from a house in 1962, incorporating two terrace houses, and has since been expanded on several occasions.
2.8 km · mosque in Blackburn, Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 05Diocese of Blackburn
The diocese of Blackburn is diocese of the Church of England in North West England. Its boundaries correspond to northern Lancashire.
3.3 km · Church of England diocese · Wikipedia - 06Ewood Aqueduct
Ewood Aqueduct is a high embankment carrying the Leeds and Liverpool Canal over the River Darwen and the B6447 road near Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Built of sandstone in the early 19th century, it is a Grade II listed building.
1.9 km · grade II listed canal in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St Mark's Church, Blackburn
St Mark's Church is in Buncer Lane, in the former parish of Witton, Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It is a redundant Anglican church in the deanery of Blackburn with Darwen, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.
3.4 km · church in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
The Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery is the local museum service for the borough of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. It is a museum with collections of Christian icons, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and local history, as well as those of the former Lewis Textile Museum.
3.3 km · museum in Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 09Holy Trinity Church, Blackburn
Holy Trinity Church is in Mount Pleasant, Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It is a former Anglican parish church which is now redundant and under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.3 km · church in Blackburn, UK · Wikipedia - 10Town Hall
Blackburn Town Hall is a municipal building on King William Street in Blackburn, England. The town hall, which is the headquarters of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.
3.3 km · town hall in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lower Darwen
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 43 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 50 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 56 km
- Stations
- Blackburn railway station, 2.9 km · Darwen railway station, 2.6 km · Cherry Tree railway station, 3.2 km · Mill Hill railway station, 2.5 km · Feniscowles railway station, 4 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Lower Darwen31 km · quickest by road, 1h · £3.5–5
- Liverpool → Lower Darwen48 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Lower Darwen61 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–11
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lower Darwen
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lower Darwen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries ply to Liverpool from: Dublin twice a day (P & O, 8 hours), though there are faster sailings from Dublin to Holyhead in North Wales.
- Get inBelfast twice a day (Stena Line, 8 hours) Douglas Isle of Man three per day (Isle of Man Steam Packet, 2 hour 45 min); Douglas also has ferries to Heysham near Morecambe.
- Get aroundLancashire is increasingly a cycle friendly place for on- and off-road cyclists.
- Go nextOr hop on a ferry to Ireland or the Isle of Man.
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Lower Darwen is 16 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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