Hotels Burnley

Hotels Burnley

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Burnley is a large market town in the borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a population of around 70,000. It lies 11 miles east of Blackburn and 25 miles east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun.

It began life in the early medieval period as a small market town, but its main period of expansion came during the Industrial Revolution, when it became the world's largest producer of cotton cloth. Today, Burnley has lost much of its industry, and is increasingly a dormitory town for Manchester, Leeds and the M65 corridor.

Burnley's origins are prehistoric, as shown by Stone Age flint tools and weapons that found on the moors around the town. Local place names Padiham and Habergham show the influence of the Angles, suggesting that some had settled in the area by the early 7th century, but there is no definitive record of settlement until 1122, when a charter granted the church of Burnley to the monks of Pontefract Abbey. In its early days, Burnley was a small farming community, gaining a corn mill in 1290, a market in 1294, and a fulling mill in 1296. At this point, it was within the manor of Ightenhill, one of five that made up the Honour of Clitheroe, then a far more significant settlement, and consisted of no more than 50 families. Little survives of early Burnley – the name means ‘meadow by the River Brun’– apart from the Market Cross, erected in 1295, which now stands in the grounds of an annexe of Burnley College. Over the next three centuries, Burnley grew in size to about 1,200 inhabitants by 1550, still centred around the church, St Peter’s, in what is now known as "Top o’ th’ Town". Prosperous residents built larger houses, including Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham and Towneley Hall, and in 1532 St Peter's Church was largely rebuilt. Burnley’s grammar school was founded in 1559, and moved into its own schoolhouse next to the church in 1602. Burnley began to develop in this period into a small market town. It is known that weaving was established in the town by the middle of the 17th century and in 1617 a new Market House was built. The town continued to be centred on St Peter’s Church until the market was moved to the bottom of what is today Manchester Road at the end of the 18th century.

Industrial Revolution and after

In the second half of the 18th century, the manufacture of cotton began to replace that of wool. Burnley’s earliest known factories – dating from the mid-century – stood on the banks of the River Calder close to where it is joined by the River Brun, and relied on water power to drive the spinning machines, but by 1830 there were 32 steam engines in cotton mills throughout the rapidly expanding town. By 1866, the town was the largest producer of cotton cloth in the world. The 18th century also saw the rapid development of coal mining: the drift mines and shallow bell-pits of earlier centuries were replaced by deeper shafts meeting industrial as well as domestic demand locally, and by 1800 there were over a dozen pits in the centre of the town alone. The first turnpike road through Burnley was begun in 1754, linking the town to Blackburn and Colne, and by the early 19th century there were daily stagecoach journeys to Blackburn, Skipton and Manchester, the last taking just over two hours. For the transportation of goods in bulk, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal arrived in 1796, and in 1848 the East Lancashire Railway Company’s extension from Accrington linked the town to the nation’s nascent railway network for the first time. By 1851, the town’s population had reached almost 21,000.

Burnley became incorporated as a municipal borough in 1861, and became, under the Local Government Act 1888, a county borough outside the administrative county of Lancashire. But from a population of over 100,000 in 1911, the town's population has declined to today's figure, mirroring the decline in its traditional industries of textiles, mining and engineering. Under the Local Government Act 1972 Burnley's county borough status was abolished, and it was incorporated with neighbouring areas into the non-metropolitan district of Burnley.

To the west of Burnley lie the towns of Padiham, Accrington and Blackburn, with Nelson and Colne to the north. To the north west of the town lies the imposing and visually dramatic Pendle Hill, home of the Pendle Witches, whose summit stands 1,827 feet above sea level. To the east of the town lie the hills of the South Pennines, and to the south, the Forest of Rossendale. The town lies in a natural three-forked valley at the confluence of the River Brun and the River Calder, surrounded by open fields which evolve into wild moorland at higher altitudes. There are several large parks in the town, including Towneley Park, once the deer park for the 15th century Towneley Hall and three winners of the Green Flag Award, including Queens Park, which hosts a summer season of brass band concerts each year, and Thompson Park, which has a boating lake and miniature railway.

The Pennine Way passes six miles east of Burnley; the Mary Towneley Loop, part of the Pennine Bridleway, and the Burnley Way offer riders and walkers clearly-signed routes through the countryside immediately surrounding the town.

Burnley has good sporting facilities for a town of its size. The new £29m St Peter's Centre offers swimming, squash courts and a fitness suite, while the nearby Spirit of Sport complex includes a large sports hall, and several indoor courts and synthetic pitches. There has been an outdoor athletics track at Barden Lane, where the Burnley Athletic Club have met. There have been tennis courts at Towneley Park, as well as at the Burnley Lawn Tennis Club, bowling greens around the town, and a £235,000 skate park at Queens Park, which opened in 2003. There are also basketball, caving and judo clubs in the town.

The town's sporting life is dominated by Burnley Football Club, which was founded in 1882, and has played its home matches at Turf Moor since 1883. The club was one of the 12 founder members of the Football League in 1888, and is one of only four to have held continuous membership of that league. Nicknamed the Clarets. Other football clubs in the town include Burnley Belvedere and Burnley United. Padiham Football Club are an English football team based in Padiham, Lancashire. Lowerhouse Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at Liverpool Road in Burnley. Burnley Cricket Club, based at Turf Moor in Burnley, Lancashire, is a cricket club in the Lancashire.

There are two members of the Lancashire Cricket League in the town. Burnley Cricket Club play their home matches at Turf Moor, on a field next to the football ground, while Lowerhouse Cricket Club play at Liverpool Road.

Burnley's traditional employment base has been in decline for several decades.

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Districts in Burnley include or have included ; Burnley Wood, Cliviger, Hapton, Lancashire, Ightenhill, Padiham, Stoneyholme, Worsthorne.

Worsthorne is a rural village on the eastern outskirts of Burnley in Lancashire, England. Burnley Wood is a district of Burnley, Lancashire. In broad terms it lies between Parliament Street in the north and Stoney Street in the south, and from the railway in the west to Todmorden Road in the east.

Stoneyholme developed between 1860 and 1914 to house Burnley's expanding workforce. It had fewer industrial buildings than its near-neighbour Daneshouse.

Padiham is a small town and civil parish on the River Calder, about 3 miles west of Burnley and south of Pendle Hill. It is part of the Borough of Burnley but also has its own town council with limited powers. The first recorded mention of the town, as 'Padyngham', dates from 1294. For hundreds of years it was a market town where produce from Pendleside was bought and sold. (Padiham market continues today, being held every Wednesday and Friday.) The town expanded and was substantially redeveloped during the Industrial Revolution and the central area is now a conservation area.

Schools in the town include or have included ; Blessed Trinity RC College, Burnley College, Hameldon Community College, Shuttleworth College, Sir John Thursby Community College, Thomas Whitham Sixth Form, Unity College (Burnley)

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