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, roman sites, museums, caves, limestone pavements, sssis, canals, beaches, shopping centres, cities and castles.
Darwen, Chorley, Leyland, Nelson, Blackburn, Burnley, and Blackpool are some of Darwen best towns to visit near Darwen.
Ryal Fold, Tockholes, Brinscall, White Coppice, Ribchester, Belmont, and Chipping are some of Darwen best villages to visit near Darwen.
The area around Darwen features a number of interesting parks including Bold Venture Park, Sunnyhurst Wood, Astley Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, and Ball Grove Park.
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.
The area around Darwen features a number of interesting rivers and streams including Sunnyhurst Brook, Hatch Brook, Dean Black Brook, Eller Brook, River Yarrow at Duxbury Woods, Ease Gill, and River Roddlesworth.
Darwen's best nearby old mines can be found at 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 number of ruins near Darwen including 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, Blacko Tower, The Wishing Well at Hollinshead Hall, Hoghton Tower, and Stonyhurst College are some of Darwen best historic buildings to visit near Darwen.
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 are great places to visit near Darwen if you like ancient sites.
There are a number of historic monuments near Darwen including Jubilee Tower, Bevis and the Ruined Summerhouse, and Cromwell's Bridge.
Darwen's best nearby hiking areas can be found at 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 some of Darwen best hills to visit near Darwen.
Round Cairns to visit near Darwen include Jepsons Gate Cairn.
Darwen has some unmissable lakes nearby like High Bullough Reservoir, Anglezarke Reservoir, White Coppice Mill Pond, Big Lodge Water, Top Lodge, The Blue Lagoon, and Lower Ogden Reservoir.
The area around Darwen features a number of interesting bluebell woods including High Bullough Wood, Duxbury Woods, Hill Top Wood, Warton Crag, and Roddlesworth Woods.
Stronstrey Bank, White Coppice Quarry, Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement, and Sykes Mine are great places to visit near Darwen if you like geological features.
Don't miss The Evaders' Garden, Astley Walled Garden, and Hoghton Tower's gardens if visiting the area around Darwen.
There are a several good country parks in the Darwen area like Yarrow Valley Country Park, Worden Park, Cuerden Valley Country Park, Witton Country Park, Beacon Fell, Langroyd Country Park, and Wyre Estuary Country Park.
Top Lodge, Longworth Clough, Leighton Moss, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Ball Grove Park, Upper Ball Grove Lodge, and Mere Sands Wood are great places to visit near Darwen if you like nature reserves.
There are a several good historic sites in the area around Darwen like Black Coppice Mill Stone Factory.
Ribchester Roman Bath House, and Ribchester Roman Museum are some of Darwen best roman sites to visit near Darwen.
Don't miss Ribchester Roman Museum, The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, and Harris Museum - Art Gallery and Library Preston's museums if visiting the area around Darwen.
The area around Darwen boasts some of the best caves including Dog Holes Cave, Fairy Hole, and County Pot.
There are a number of limestone pavements near to Darwen including Warton Crag and Grisedale Wood Limestone Pavement.
There are a several good sssis in the Darwen area like Warton Crag S.S.S.I, and West Pennine Moors.
There are a number of canals near Darwen including 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.
Don't miss Blackpool, and Half Moon Bay's beaches if visiting the area around Darwen.
The Concourse Shopping Centre is one of Darwen's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Darwen.
There are a several good cities in the Darwen area like Preston, and Lancaster.
Clitheroe Castle is one of Darwen's best, nearby castles to visit in Darwen.
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.
