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Accrington is a town in Lancashire, within the borough of Hyndburn.
The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.
The town we now call Accrington covers two townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation ; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation of the borough council.
There have been settlements there since the medieval period, likely in the Grange Lane and Black Abbey area, and the King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when the Forest of Accrington was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.
The Industrial Revolution, however, resulted in large changes and Accrington ’ s location on the confluence of a number of streams made it attractive to industry and a number of mills were built in the town in the mid-eighteenth century.
One well-known association the town has is with the ' Accrington Pals ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war.
The 2001 census gave the population of Accrington town as 35, 203.
As well as motor dealerships from Ford ( Greyhound ), Vauxhall & Chevrolet ( Accrington Garages ), the town was home to a Arnold Clark car dealer which closed down in 2010.
Accrington is a hill town located at the western edge of the Pennines within a bowl and largely encircled by surrounding hills to heights of 300-400m.
The Hyndburn or Accrington Brook flows through the centre of the town.
The town has strong local travel links as Accrington railway station lies on the East Lancashire Line serving trains running locally and trains running from Blackpool to York.
Accrington is the smallest town in England and Wales with a Football League club.
Accrington Stanley Football Club has officially had its own pub in the town, the Crown, since July 2007.
The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington contains an outstanding collection of Tiffany glassware presented to the town by Joseph Briggs, an Accrington man who had joined Tiffany ’ s in the late 19th century and eventually became art director and assistant manager.
One of the most important pieces of the regeneration jigsaw for the Borough is reviving Accrington town centre.
The Council using funding from the Single Regeneration Budget appointed URBED ( Urban, Built, Environment Design ), consultants based in Manchester to help the Council, our partners and the local community develop a new vision for Accrington town centre.
* Accrington Web Accrington forum and town information
* A 3D map of Accrington You can see the town of Accrington and parking
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Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent from the Kansas town of Smallville, Clark ( and thus Superman ) was raised with the values of a typical rural American town, including attending the local Methodist Church ( though it is debated by comic fans if Superman is a Methodist ).
The Prince of Hesse joined him, thus leaving the town ( he would die one month later in the siege of Barcelona ).
The town authorities might be represented in the guild meetings and thus had a means of controlling the handicraft activities.
It comes from heiðr = heathland, and býr = " yard " or " clearing / village / town ", thus " heath yard ", or " heath town ".
In informal use, the word county is often dropped except where necessary to distinguish between county and town or city ; thus " Offaly " rather than " County Offaly ", but " County Antrim " to distinguish it from Antrim town.
Although the town was small, with just one street, it was at the junction of Watling Street and the estuary of the Medway, and was thus a fortified town.
A historic moment came about in 2006 when the town of Radłów changed its local laws to make German, alongside Polish, the district ’ s second official language ; thus becoming the first town in the region to achieve such a feat.
Thus, its functions largely overreached simple law enforcement activities and included public health concerns, urban planning ( which was important because of the miasma theory of disease ; thus, cemeteries were moved out of town, etc.
" The Yemenite king thus did not destroy the town and converted to Judaism.
She returns to town only to find out that her pregnant sister is kidnapped by Gith, who returns in a giant space station, thus leaving room for a sequel and / or suggesting future action.
On the opposite ( west ) bank is the town of Nordenham at the foot of the Butjadingen Peninsula ; thus, the mouth of the river is located in Lower Saxony.
The name of the town means Thor's Harbour, and it may be named after the god of thunder and lightning in Norse mythology ; thus the town's coat of arms shows Thor's hammer Mjolnir, but more likely it was named after the first settler whose name then was Thor.
The town was captured and garrisoned, and thus the first Portuguese outpost was established on the mainland of Africa.
The new town of Thermae or Therma, called for the sake of distinction Thermae Himerenses, which thus took the place of Himera, obviously derived its name from the hot springs for which it was celebrated, and the first discovery of which was connected by legends with the wanderings of Hercules.
Besieged from May until October 1574 by the Spanish, Leiden was relieved by the cutting of the dikes, thus enabling ships to carry provisions to the inhabitants of the flooded town.
The hotel industry and that of the construction industry, in full strength in the 1920s, attracted the world more and more and thus made it possible for Nice to become a town of national importance.
There was concern that growth would necessitate the construction of a second bridge across the river into the town, thus putting further strain on the wooden town.
It grew to a significant town, and as such received the attentions of Boudica of the Iceni in AD 61, when Verulamium was sacked and burnt: a black ash layer has been recorded by archaeologists, thus confirming the Roman written record.
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Since that time the telegraph office has shifted in location from the railroad station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to the town clerk's office and drugstore at the Village.
Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.
Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.
And I've been told that just about every town, no matter what its size, has its Lucille Warren.
The town has had a coat of arms since 1338, that of the Counts of Abensberg.
It probably was a Thracian town, as Strabo has it, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians, with the consent of Gyges, king of Lydia, around 700 BC.
The town of Nibutani ( Ainu: Niputay ) in Hidaka area ( Hokkaido prefecture ) has a number of Ainu households and a visit to some of the Ainu owned craft shops close to the Ainu museums ( there are two of them in Nibutani ) is an opportunity to interact with the Ainu people.
Development in Canberra has been closely regulated by government, both through the town planning process, but also through the use of crown lease terms that have tightly limited the use of parcels of land.
The town has not changed since he went off to war ; however, he finds that he does " not belong here anymore, it is a foreign world.
It is developing as an annual autumn event in his native town of Legnago where a theater has been renamed in his honor.
The presence of several major manufacturers since the 19th century has given Albion the reputation of a factory town.
This has changed with the closure of several manufacturers, and Albion's culture is changing to that of a college town with a strong interest in technology and sustainability issues.
Since 1 April 1956, Aalen has the status of Große Kreisstadt (“ major district town ”).
The town was ruled from the " Rore " tower, which has been incorporated into the modern city hall.
The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem has the Cardo Maximus, the town ’ s main street, beginning at the northern gate, today's Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | Damascus Gate, and traversing the city in a straight line from north to south to Nea Church.
Afyon is the centre of an agricultural area and the city has a country town feel to it.
* the White Elephant-Afyon is twinned with the town of Hamm in Germany, and now has a large statue of Hamm's symbolic white elephant.
In recent decades the number of Welsh speakers in the town has increased dramatically.
The town has one of the two Welsh-medium primary schools in Monmouthshire, Ysgol Gymraeg y Fenni, which was founded in the early 1990s.
The story is set in an imaginary American town that has gone bankrupt.
The scheming Comptroller Schub, tells her that he has a plan to save her administration, and the town, promising “ It's highly unethical .” He tells her to meet him at the rock on the edge of town.
Schub has put the miracle on hiatus, but announces that they can easily turn the town against Hapgood by blaming him for it.
Again, Schub has the answer-since the Cookie Jar is still successful, they can turn the entire town into one big Cookie Jar!
As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.
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