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Blackburn Blackburn town centre, Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, Eng.

Blackburn with Darwen

unitary authority, England, United Kingdom
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Blackburn with Darwen, unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England, 23 miles (37 km) northwest of Manchester. The famous weaving tradition of the town of Blackburn had its beginnings in the 13th-century wool trade. By the reign of Elizabeth I, Blackburn was a flourishing market town of 2,000 people, with Irish flax being utilized in the production of fabrics. The introduction of the spinning jenny (invented by James Hargreaves about 1764 at...

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