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Burnley (/ ˈ b ɜːr n l i /) is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. [2] It is 21 miles (34 km) north of Manchester and 20 miles (32 km) east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun.
The hall was the home of the Towneley family from around 1200. The family once owned extensive estates in and around Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. [2] The male line of the family died out in 1878 and in 1901 one of the daughters, Lady O'Hagan, sold the house together with 62 acres (250,000 m 2) of land to Burnley Corporation for £17,600.
The Empire Theatre was opened as a variety hall by local stationer William Horner (1841–1922) who also ran the nearby Victoria Opera House. [1] It was designed by local architect George Birkbeck Rawcliffe with an innovative dual staircase, described by the local Burnley Express newspaper, as a "double helix."
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The newspaper was founded as the Burnley Express and East Lancashire Observer, by printer George Frankland, from Preston, as an eight-page penny weekly. It was politically Conservative . It merged with the Burnley Advertiser in 1880, becoming the Burnley Express and Advertiser , and in 1886, it became the Burnley Express and Clitheroe Division ...
Scott Park is a public park in Burnley, Lancashire. It covers 7.9 hectares (20 acres) and was opened in 1895. It covers 7.9 hectares (20 acres) and was opened in 1895. Located south of the town centre, attractions include tennis courts, a children's play area, a bandstand, and bowling greens.
The town of Burnley had been governed by improvement commissioners from 1819. [2] The commissioners were replaced in 1861 when the town was made a municipal borough, governed by a body formally called the "mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Burnley" but generally known as the corporation or town council. [3]
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