Blackburn (gbr)

Blackburn

Blackburn ranks 1,036th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bacău, Stoke-on-Trent, and Winterthur. The most famous people from Blackburn are Ian McShane, Daniel Burley Woolfall, and John Morley. The most famous people who died in Blackburn are Ronnie Clayton, Keith Newton, and Bob Crompton. Blackburn has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many soccer players. Blackburn is located in United Kingdom.

Blackburn is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, 8 mi (13 km) east of Preston and 21 mi (34 km) north-northwest of Manchester. Blackburn is at the centre of the wider unitary authority area along with the town of Darwen. It is the second largest town in Lancashire. Read more on Wikipedia