Darwen is a Town in the county of Lancashire.
Darwen is a market town located in Lancashire, England. Along with Blackburn, it forms the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen.
Darwen borders the windswept West Pennine Moors with its wonderful landscape and magnificent views.
Darwen is famous for it’s 86ft tall Jubilee Tower, built at the end of the 1800’s to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. It is a bit of a climb to get there, but the views from the top of the tower are worth it. On a clear day you can see the Isle of Man, North Wales, The Furness peninsula and Blackpool Tower.
Darwen postcode: BB3 3
There are great places to visit near Darwen including some great towns, villages, parks, waterfalls, woodlands, rivers and streams, old mines, ruins, historic buildings, ancient sites, historic monuments, hiking areas, hills, round cairns, lakes, bluebell woods, geological features, gardens, country parks, nature reserves, historic sites, canals, roman sites, museums, caves, limestone pavements, sssis, beaches, attractions, shopping centres, cities and castles.
The area around Darwen features a number of interesting towns including Darwen, Chorley, Leyland, Nelson, Blackburn, Burnley, and Blackpool.
The area around Darwen features a number of interesting villages including Ryal Fold, Tockholes, Brinscall, White Coppice, Heath Charnock, Higher Wheelton, and Ribchester.
Bold Venture Park, Sunnyhurst Wood, Astley Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, and Ball Grove Park are great places to visit near Darwen if you like parks.
The area around Darwen features a number of interesting waterfalls including Bold Venture Waterfall, Sunnyhurst Waterfalls, Hatch Brook Waterfall, Holts Flat Waterfall, Lead Mines Clough Waterfall, Sheep Pen Waterfall, and Old Brooks Waterfall.
Darwen has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Sunnyhurst Wood, Wheelton Plantation, High Bullough Wood, Back Plantation, Spen Wood, Duxbury Woods, and Longworth Clough.
Darwen has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like Sunnyhurst Brook, Hatch Brook, Dean Black Brook, Eller Brook, River Yarrow at Duxbury Woods, Ease Gill, and River Roddlesworth.
There are a number of old mines near Darwen including Old Lyons Colliery (ruin), Lead Mines Clough Lead Mines, Coppice Stile Lead Mine Trial, White Coppice Lead Mine, Duxbury Park Colliery (ruin), Ellerbeck Collieries (ruin), and Sykes Mine.
There are a several good ruins in the Darwen area like Old Lyons Colliery (ruin), Higher Pasture Barn (ruin), Ripping (ruin), Wheelton Plantation, Blackhurst (ruin), Heatherlea (ruin), and Shop Fold (ruin).
Church of Saint Stephen at Tockholes, Astley Hall, Chorley Lodge, Belmont Paper Mills (Derelict), Blacko Tower, The Wishing Well at Hollinshead Hall, and Hoghton Tower are great places to visit near Darwen if you like historic buildings.
Don't miss Church of Saint Stephen at Tockholes, The Quernmore Burial, Standing Stones Hill, Pikestones Chambered Long Cairn, Jepsons Gate Cairn, Black Coppice Chambered Cairn, and Dog Holes Cave's ancient sites if visiting the area around Darwen.
Historic Monuments to visit near Darwen include Jubilee Tower, Bevis and the Ruined Summerhouse, and Cromwell's Bridge.
Darwen has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Anglezarke, Lead Mines Clough, High Bullough Wood, Stronstrey Bank, Lister Mill Quarry, Great Hill, and White Coppice.
Standing Stones Hill, Great Hill, Healey Nab, Spitlers Edge, Will Narr, Warton Crag, and Parlick are great places to visit near Darwen if you like hills.
Jepsons Gate Cairn is a great place to visit close to Darwen if you like round cairns.
The area around Darwen features a number of interesting lakes including High Bullough Reservoir, Anglezarke Reservoir, White Coppice Mill Pond, Big Lodge Water, Top Lodge, The Blue Lagoon, and Lower Ogden Reservoir.
High Bullough Wood, Duxbury Woods, Hill Top Wood, Warton Crag, and Roddlesworth Woods are great places to visit near Darwen if you like bluebell woods.
Geological Features to visit near Darwen include Stronstrey Bank, White Coppice Quarry, Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement, Sykes Mine, and The Great Stone of Fourstones.
Darwen has some unmissable gardens nearby like The Evaders' Garden, Astley Walled Garden, and Hoghton Tower.
There are a number of country parks near Darwen including Yarrow Valley Country Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, Witton Country Park, Beacon Fell, Langroyd Country Park, and Wyre Estuary Country Park.
Darwen's best nearby nature reserves can be found at Top Lodge, Longworth Clough, Leighton Moss, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Ball Grove Park, Upper Ball Grove Lodge, and Mere Sands Wood.
The area close to Darwen boasts some of the best historic sites including Black Coppice Mill Stone Factory.
Don't miss Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Heath Charnock, Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Higher Wheelton, Leeds and Liverpool Canal - Summit to Wigan Section, Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Adlington, Lancaster Canal at Bolton-le-Sands, and Leeds and Liverpool Canal - Rufford Branch's canals if visiting the area around Darwen.
Ribchester Roman Bath House, and Ribchester Roman Museum are great places to visit near Darwen if you like roman sites.
There are a number of museums near Darwen including Ribchester Roman Museum, The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, and Harris Museum - Art Gallery and Library Preston.
Dog Holes Cave, Fairy Hole, and County Pot are great places to visit near Darwen if you like caves.
The area close to Darwen boasts some of the best limestone pavements including Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement.
Darwen's best nearby sssis can be found at Warton Crag S.S.S.I, and West Pennine Moors.
The area around Darwen boasts some of the best beaches including Blackpool, Half Moon Bay, The Shore (Bolton-le-Sands), and Hest Bank Wharf.
There are a number of attractions near Darwen including Madame Tussauds Blackpool, The Big One, and Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
Darwen is near some unmissable shopping centres like The Concourse Shopping Centre,
Darwen has some unmissable cities nearby like Preston, and Lancaster.
There are a number of castles near to Darwen including Clitheroe Castle.
Darwen History
There are some historic monuments around Darwen:
Areas of Darwen
Like most towns and cities Darwen is comprised of a number of areas, once separate villages or small towns and parishes now part of Darwen.
Many of the areas of Darwen have their own character and places of interest.
Places to see near Darwen
History of Darwen
Much of the town was built between about 1850 and 1900; placenames, date stones in terraces, and the vernacular architecture of cellars, local stone, locally-made brick, pipework and tiles and leaded glass, the last now mostly gone, reflect this. It was one of the first places in the world to have steam trams. The arrangement of town hall, market, public transport, eating/hotel facilities and the pre-suburban mixed-size vernacular housing, with local variations according to topography, is very characteristic of Northern England. The year 1900 perhaps represents the peak of Victorian optimism in the area. The working classes were then much more identifiable as masses than now. The rise of the Labour Party from about 1900 coincided with a decline in the Liberal Party, which followed the Manchester School in economics, increasingly seen as permitting unjustified exploitation. However, Darwen usually voted for the Conservative Party until a Conservative government made unpopular administrative rearrangements in the early 1970s.
