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Darwen

Darwen was a centre for textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution like towns in Lancashire. From 1878, the Darwen municipal borough existed for years. Renamed Blackburn with Darwen in 1997, before it became a unitary authority, of the Blackburn Lancashire district that is non-metropolitan, the town became part.

During the Industrial Revolution, the cotton represents the industry in which the town grew and prospered and the bolls to represent Darwen's three areas that are main - Hoddlesden, Lower Darwen, and Over Darwen. Operated by Northern, Darwen stands athwart Ribble Valley railway line. Formed in 1870 and the world's football club to have paid professional players, the town was the home of Darwen Football Club.

Darwen Golf Club lies to the north-west. Out as far as Blackpool and into the Darwen Tower shadow cascades down, from its peak viewpoint the course has views of the surrounding area. Formerly Elite School of Music, Darwen School of Music is Darwen has its music school on Blackburn Road.

Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio opened in September 2013 and, in the renovated Model Lodging House on Police Street, the school moved to its permanent home in 2014. The coat of arms used by the unitary authority of Blackburn with Darwen, which is the coat of arms for Blackburn, should not be confused with Darwen's. Whilst a build was completed on the original site, Darwen Vale High School was temporarily moved to the Moorland site.

Replaced almost by A.F.C. Darwen, the club was wound up at the end of the 2008-09 season. At the High School of Darwen Moorland premises on the outskirts of the town, which had closed in July 2008 to reopen as the academy after the summer holidays, Darwen Aldridge Community Academy opened in September 2008. It forms with Darwen the Blackburn Borough - a unitary authority area, along with northerly neighbour, Blackburn.

St Peter's, an Anglican church consecrated in 1829, is the Parish Church of Darwen. Urns containing human ashes and a bronze dagger were artefacts found, and, at Darwen Library Theatre, on display are a number of these finds. As Darwen Etrurians CC playing at Barley Bank, Cricket Club of Darwen in the late 1800s was founded, as the town has a strong cricketing tradition.