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1. www.burnleyexpress.net › news › opinionHistory of Burnley town centre street names - Burnley Express

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   Oct 14, 2013 · Burnley is no different to other towns in this respect but Burnley has some excellent examples of street names being associated with historic events. The two most obvious are the Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean War and it is from the first of these that Blucher Street took its name.

2. www.burnleyexpress.net › news › opinionDays when Burnley was a charming little village - Burnley Express

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   Aug 28, 2014 · Up to about 1760 Burnley remained the charming little village it had been for centuries. Its two village greens remained substantially unaltered and its woodland was almost unchanged in half a millennium.

3. www.fiveminutesspare.com › travel › burnley-the-fiveBurnley 12th-century Lancashire town on the River Calder.

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   Oct 12, 2020 · Early records have the settlement as originally been called Bornley, or other variants of the names. Archaeologists have found stone age circles, hill forts, and even flint tools. This leads us to believe that Burnley was a town long before the dark ages. Castercliff, the Iron Age mud fort nearby, has been dated to 600 BC.

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5. www.burnleyexpress.net › heritage-and-retroBurnley history: 13 fascinating photos looking at prominent ...

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   Jun 1, 2024 · Here are 13 retro pictures taking a look at some of Burnley’s most eminent buildings. The images are part of for Keeping East Lancashire in the Picture, a two-year Lancashire Archives volunteer project bringing together people of different ages and backgrounds to digitise and make the collections of historic photographs in Burnley , Colne ...

6. www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk › news › 18254052Remembering Burnley's historic buildings - Lancashire Telegraph

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   Feb 22, 2020 · St James's Street in Burnley. TAKEN in the 1930s, this picture depicts a scene from St. James’s Street in Burnley. Only one building in this picture of Burnley town centre before the turn...

7. www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk › news › 20581676Burnley's history set to be rewritten by finding of lost village

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   Jul 28, 2022 · RESEARCH using the latest laser imaging technology could be about to rewrite the early history of one of East Lancashire's key industrial towns. It has always been thought that a medieval...

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   Was Burnley a town before the Dark Ages?

   • Early records have the settlement as originally been called Bornley, or other variants of the names. Archaeologists have found stone age circles, hill forts, and even flint tools. This leads us to believe that Burnley was a town long before the dark ages. Castercliff, the Iron Age mud fort nearby, has been dated to 600 BC.

   Burnley 12th-century Lancashire town on the River Calder

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   Why is Burnley called a 'Top o th' Town?

   • This is where the original village of Burnley was founded. It was often referred to as the “Top o’ th’ Town” as it was on slightly higher ground than the property on the Burnley side of the Calder at Bridge End which was known, as a consequence, the “Bottom o’ th’ Town”.

   History of Burnley town centre street names - Burnley Express

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   Where is Burnley?

   • It is situated between the River Calder and the Brun, between Padiham and Accrington, and near the Pendle Forest. This ancient Lancashire town has a population of just over 70,000 people and lies about 20 miles north of Manchester. As you can see Burnley is a surprisingly green place – not like its industrial town image.

   Burnley 12th-century Lancashire town on the River Calder

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   Why is Burnley called Burnley?

   • It is thought that the name Burnley was derived is an adaptation of the old English Brun Lea. This would have referred to the medal by the river Brun. Early records have the settlement as originally been called Bornley, or other variants of the names. Archaeologists have found stone age circles, hill forts, and even flint tools.

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   Why was Burnley a thriving wool fulling town?

   • Burnley was already a thriving wool fulling town. Wool would have been brought in from the surrounding countryside, dyed, treated, and fulled here, to make it thicker, and to make it go farther. Some of the biggest mills and the earliest factories in Burnley, were set upon the banks of the River Calder at the confluence with the Brun.

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   Why was Burnley named Blucher Street?

   • When news of the victory at Waterloo reached Britain the relief that Napoleon had finally been defeated was felt by everyone. It was natural for the people of Burnley to name a street after the man who turned a defeat into a rout and the name Blucher Street was used for a short stretch of Burnley’s main street for two generations.

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9. www.discoverbritainstowns.co.uk › places › burnleyBurnley, Lancashire - Discover Britain’s Towns

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   Burnley is a historic market town, and is surrounded by breathtaking Penine countryside. It developed into one of the most prosperous mill towns in Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution. Burnley was one of the world’s largest cloth producers at its peak.