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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.
Burnley Lancashire. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Burnley like this: Burnley, parl. and mun. bor., and township, at the confluence of the Burn and the Calder, Whalley par., NE.
Aug 20, 2014 · As you can see, the map, specially drawn for an application by the Burnley Tradesmen’s Billposting Co. Ltd, was produced to indicate the location new hoardings, or Bill Posting Stations, as they were called.
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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.
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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The town stands on the river Burn, immediately above its influx to the West Calder, 22 miles N of Manchester. The Leeds and Liverpool canal is adjacent; and railways go in three directions, toward Skipton, Todmorton, and Blackburn.
