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To avoid confusion little did they realise!! James' and Lower Chapel the independent church. Both chapels lay within the Parish of Blackburn, with St. Mary the Virgin as the Parish Church. At that time, the two chapels were restricted to performing baptisms and burials, while marriages could only be performed at St.

Mary's, Blackburn. Hence, records quote Darwen as part of the parish of Blackburn, although in reality the town was fiercely independent of it's bigger neighbour and still is to this day, in spite of the recent re-organisations in local government which has combined the two into "Blackburn with Darwen" or, as the locals prefer, "Darwen with Blackburn"! You can see the administrative areas in which Over Darwen has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

Maps View maps of Over Darwen and places within its boundaries. English Jurisdictions in Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map. Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map. You can also see Family History Societies covering the nearby area , plotted on a map.

This facility is being developed, and is awaiting societies to enter information about the places they cover. Darwen is in the local authority with the highest number of Universal Credit claimants in the area.

These figures below on the claiming of legacy benefits in Darwen are dated. They are the last published statistics of unemployment rates as a percentage of the population. Althpugh outdated, these statistics can often be a good indicator of the prosperity of the town and how hard it could be to get employment in the area. The rate of unemployment in Darwen is both higher than the average for and higher than the national average, suggesting that finding a job in this area maybe hard.

Social grade is a classification based on occupation and it enables a household and all its members to be classified according to the job of the main income earner. Exact matches only.

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Add Room. Things to Do Search. What's On Search. Any date in the future. Visit Lancashire Highlights. In this section It is only accessable by a series of footpaths from Darwen leading on to the West Pennine Moors. Darwen Library Theatre has a programme of theatre, music, comedy and community arts activities. Covering seven miles of footpaths, Sunnyhurst Wood is a beautiful location for family walks and picnics.

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