Accrington
Accrington shown within Lancashire
Population	35,203 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference	SD755286
District	Hyndburn
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ACCRINGTON
Postcode district	BB5
Dialling code	01254
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
European Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Hyndburn
List of places: UK • England • Lancashire

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Accrington^[1] is an industrial town and is the major settlement in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire; situated in North West England. Manufacturing (from Latin manu factura, making by hand) is the use of tools and labor to make things for use or sale. ... Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. ... Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... North West England is one of the nine regions of England. ...

Accrington has a population of around 35,000 and is located 20 miles north of Manchester. It is a former centre of the cotton industry and is a centre of the textile machinery industry, however the industries are now new and more diversified. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ...

Accrington, a former mill town, is commonly abbreviated to "Accy".^[2] Amoskeag Canal, 1948, by Charles Sheeler A mill town is a community that grew up around one or more mills or factories, usually on a river that was used as a source of power in the days before electricity. ...

History

The name Accrington derives from Anglo-Saxon ton - a town or enclosure of, ring means "the people of" and accr is a distortion of a family called alker. However, there is little evidence of this and it would have been the chief or land owner in the area. Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon[1], Old English: ) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ...

The kings 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.

For many decades, the textile industry was the central activity of the town. Mills and dye works provided work for the inhabitants, but often in very difficult conditions. There was regular conflict with employers, most famously in the 1842 'Plug riots' where a general strike spread from town to town, as thousands of strikers walked over the hills from one town to another to persuade people to join the strike. It was a marvel of robust Accrington spirit, that has been remembered through the years as Accrington D-Day. The deliverance of a better working environment for all. 'Hip-hip Horray'. The strike joined up with the Chartist movement, but was not successful in its aims. The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest building bricks in the world, "The Accrington NORI" Which is IRON spelt backwards. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Look up dye in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century between 1838 and 1848. ...

Accrington became incorporated as a municipal borough in 1878. Under the Local Government Act 1972, since 1974, the town has formed part of the larger borough of Hyndburn, also including Oswaldtwistle, Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood and Rishton. A borough is a political division originally used in England. ... The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ... Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. ... Rhyddings Park Oswaldtwistle is a town on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire, 3 m. ... Church is a suburb of Accrington in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England, about a mile west of Accrington town centre. ... Clayton-le-Moors is a town near Blackburn in Lancashire two miles north of Accrington. ... Location within the British Isles Great Harwood is an urban district in the Hyndburn parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 4 1/2 miles north east of Blackburn. ... Rishton is a small town in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England, about 2 miles west of Clayton-le-Moors and 4 miles east of Blackburn. ...

Accrington Pals

Further information: Recruitment to the British Army during World War I

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 World War I. The Pals battalions were a peculiarity of the 1914-1918 war: Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, believed that it would help recruitment if friends and work-mates from the same town were able to join up and fight together. Strictly speaking, the 'Accrington Pals' battalion is properly known as the '11th East Lancashire Regiment': the nickname is a little misleading, since of the four 250-strong companies that made up the original battalion only one was actually composed of men from Accrington. The rest volunteered from other East Lancs towns such as Burnley, Blackburn, and Chorley. A World War I recruitment poster featuring Kitchener. ... The Accrington Pals was a British First World War Pals battalion of Kitcheners Army raised in and around the town of Accrington in Lancashire. ... Symbol of the Austrian 14th Armoured Battalion in NATO military graphic symbols This article is about the military unit. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... The Pals battalions of World War I were units of the British Army that consisted of men who had enlisted together at special local recruiting drives, with the promise that they would be able to serve alongside their friends, neighbours and work colleagues (Pals) rather than having to be mixed... Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (June 24, 1850 - June 5, 1916) was a British Field Marshal and statesman. ... The secretary of war in cabinet position was Henry Knox. ... For other meanings see Burnley (disambiguation) , Burnley is a large town in the borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a population of about 73,021. ... This article is about the town in Lancashire, England. ... , Chorley Library Chorley is a market town in Lancashire, England, south of Preston and at the foot of the West Pennine Moors and home to the Chorley cake. ...

The Pals' first day of combat, Saturday 1 July 1916, took place in Serre in the north of France. It was part of the 'Big Push' (later known as the Battle of the Somme) that was intended to force the German army into a retreat from the Western Front, a line they had held since late 1914. The German defences in Serre were supposed to have been obliterated by sustained, heavy, British shelling during the preceding week; however, as the battalion advanced it met with fierce resistance. 235 men were killed, and a further 350 wounded — more than half of the battalion — within half an hour. Similarly desperate losses were suffered elsewhere on the front, in a disastrous day for the British army. is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Combatants British Empire Australia Canada New Zealand Newfoundland South Africa United Kingdom France German Empire Commanders Douglas Haig Joseph Joffre Max von Gallwitz Fritz von Below Strength 13 British & 11 French divisions (initial) 51 British and 48 French divisions (final) 10. ... Western Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the contested armed frontier between lands controlled by Germany to the East and the Allies to the West. ...

Later in the year, the East Lancs Regiment was rebuilt with new volunteers — in all, 865 Accrington men were killed during World War I. All of these names are recorded on a war memorial, an imposing white stone cenotaph, which stands in Oak Hill Park in the south of the town. The cenotaph also lists the names of 173 local fatalities from World War II. The Cenotaph, London A ceremony at the Cenotaph, London, on Sunday 12th June 2005, remembering Irish war dead Memorial Cenotaph, Hiroshima, Japan A cenotaph is a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

After the Great War and until 1986, Accrington Corporation buses were painted in the Regimental Colours of Red and Blue with Gold lining. Mudguards were painted black as a sign of mourning.

Governance

Geography

Accrington Urban Area

Blackburn Road near Church

The 2001 census gave the population of Accrington town as 35,203. The figure for the urban area, which includes Accrington Town, Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood and Oswaldtwistle), was 71,224, up 1.1% from 70,442 in 1991. For comparison purposes that is approximately the same size as Aylesbury, Carlisle, Guildford or Scunthorpe urban areas. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 541 pixel Image in higher resolution (3248 × 2196 pixel, file size: 187 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) New NHS construction following Hyndburns Phoenix re-generation programme, Blackburn Road, Accrington (Dec 2006) Author: David Hindle Location: Accrington 2006 Source: Personal... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 541 pixel Image in higher resolution (3248 × 2196 pixel, file size: 187 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) New NHS construction following Hyndburns Phoenix re-generation programme, Blackburn Road, Accrington (Dec 2006) Author: David Hindle Location: Accrington 2006 Source: Personal... Church is a suburb of Accrington in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England, about a mile west of Accrington town centre. ... Clayton-le-Moors is a town near Blackburn in Lancashire two miles north of Accrington. ... Location within the British Isles Great Harwood is an urban district in the Hyndburn parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 4 1/2 miles north east of Blackburn. ... Rhyddings Park Oswaldtwistle is a town on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire, 3 m. ... This page is about Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. ... For other uses, see Carlisle (disambiguation). ... , For other places with the same name, see Guildford (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Scunthorpe (disambiguation). ...

Transport

The town is linked to Burnley and Blackburn by railway and by the M65 motorway. There was once a rail link south to Manchester via Haslingden and Bury, but this was closed in the 1960s as part of cuts following the Beeching Report. The trackbed from Accrington to Baxenden is now an attractive treelined cycleway / footpath. The section from Rising Bridge to Carr's Industrial estate at Haslingden is now the A56 dual carriageway road, which provides a link to the M66 motorway. There is now a regular bus service from Accrington to Manchester, via Haslingden. For other meanings see Burnley (disambiguation) , Burnley is a large town in the borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a population of about 73,021. ... This article is about the town in Lancashire, England. ... The M65 motorway is a major road in England. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... , Haslingden is a small town in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire, lying 19 miles north of Manchester. ... This article is about the town of Bury in North West England. ... Many railway lines were closed as a result of the Beeching Axe The Beeching Axe was an informal name for the British governments attempt in the 1960s to control the spiralling cost of running the British railway system by closing what it considered to be little-used and unprofitable... , Baxenden is a village and ward located in the Borough of Hyndburn in Lancashire, North-West England. ... The A56 is a road in England which extends between the city of Chester in Cheshire and the town of Skipton in North Yorkshire. ... This early German Autobahn uses a dual carriageway design. ... The M66 is a short motorway in England. ...

Sports

The town's other famous association is with Accrington Stanley F.C.^[3], the butt of many (largely affectionate) jokes. The team's name is often invoked as a symbol of British sport's legion of plucky but hopeless causes (much like British ski-jumping's 'heroic failure' Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards). The club entered the Football League in 1921 with the formation of the old Third Division (North); after haunting the lower reaches of English football for forty years, they eventually resigned from the League in 1962, due to financial problems, and folded in 1965. The club was reformed for the 1968/69 season and then worked their way through the 'non-league' divisions to reach the Nationwide Conference in 2003 and in the 2005-06 season Accrington Stanley, after winning against Woking with 3 matches to spare, secured a place back in the Football League and the town celebrated with a small parade and honours places on senior executives of the team. Coincidentally, one of the teams relegated - and thus being replaced by Accrington - were Oxford United F.C., who were voted into the Football League to replace the previous Accrington Stanley. The football stadium is called the Fraser Eagle Stadium, with the Fraser Eagle company, who are also sponsors of Burnley F.C., sponsoring the team. Accrington Stanley is a football club from Accrington in Lancashire, in the north-west of England, formed in 1968. ... Image:Eddieedwards. ... The Football League is a league competition featuring professional football clubs from England and Wales, and is the oldest such competition in world football. ... The Football Conference is a football league at the top of the National League System of so-called non-league football in England. ... The Football League is a league competition featuring professional football clubs from England and Wales, and is the oldest such competition in world football. ... For the Northern Irish football club, see Oxford United Stars F.C. Oxford United Football Club are an English football team who are currently playing in the fifth tier of English football for the 2007–08 season. ...

An earlier club, Accrington F.C., were one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888. However, their time in league football was even less successful, and considerably briefer, than that of Accrington Stanley: they dropped out of the league in 1893, and folded shortly afterwards due to financial problems. The town of Accrington thus has the unique 'distinction' of having lost two separate clubs from league football, over the years. Accrington Football Club were one of the founder members of the Football League in England. ...

Tiffany Glass

The Haworth Art Gallery^[4] 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. The Art Nouveau vases are considered to be the most important such group in Europe. One of the most striking items is a glass mosaic exhibition piece, designed by Briggs himself and entitled Sulphur Crested Cockatoos.

Notable residents

• Jon Anderson, singer with rock band Yes
• David "Bumble" Lloyd, a former cricketer, now a pundit for Sky Sports.
• Graeme Fowler, Foxy Fowler, (cricketer), former England batsman, cricket coach and occasional pundit on BBC Radio's Test Match Special
• Jeanette Winterson, an author whose Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is an account of her childhood in the town.
• Harrison Birtwistle (composer).
• John Virtue, artist
• Ron Hill, long-distance and marathon runner, born 25/09/38, won Commonwealth Marathon Gold in 1970.
• John Rex Whinfield, chemist, inventor of Terylene (polyester), the first completely synthetic fibre invented in UK.
• Julie Hesmondhalgh, an actress who plays Hayley Cropper in the TV Soap Coronation Street.
• Yvette Livesey, ex beauty-queen and former squeeze of the late Tony Wilson
• The footballer Mike Duxbury was born in the town.
• Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.
• Famous ex-residents include darts player Ronnie Baxter, the National Lottery's Mystic Meg and former Lancashire all rounder Bob Ratcliffe
• Mystic Meg was born in the town as Margaret Anne Lake on July 27, 1942
• Tony Mills, ex-body building champion and renowned bare fisted boxer. 1950-2007

This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... David Lloyd (born March 18, 1947 in Accrington, Lancashire, England) is a former English cricketer who played county cricket for Lancashire and also played Test cricket and one-day international cricket for England. ... Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of 9 channels. ... Graeme (Foxy) Fowler (born 20 April 1957 in Accrington, Lancashire) was a professional cricketer who played for Lancashire and England. ... Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. ... Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985, subsequently made into a BBC television serial starring Charlotte Coleman. ... Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle, CH (born July 15, 1934) is a British composer, widely seen as one of the most significant modern composers from that country. ... John Virtue (born Accrington, Lancashire in 1947) is an English artist. ... Ron Hill, MBE, BSc, PhD (b. ... Julie Hesmondhalgh in character as Hayley Cropper on Coronation Street. ... Hayley Anne Cropper (né Harold Patterson) is a fictional character in the British soap opera Coronation Street. ... Coronation Street is an award-winning British soap opera. ... Michael Mike Duxbury (born September 1, 1959 in Accrington, Lancashire) was an English football player. ... Andrew Hargreaves (13 February 1951) is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. ... The Lynch School of Education is a professional school of Boston College. ... For similarly-named academic institutions, see Education in Boston, MA. Boston College (BC) is a private research university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in the New England region of the United States. ... Ronnie Baxter (born 1961) is an English darts player. ... Mystic Meg (born Margaret Lake, Accrington, Lancashire ca. ... Robert Malcolm Ratcliffe (Bob) was born on 29th November 1951, Accrington, Lancashire, England. ... Mystic Meg (born Margaret Lake, Accrington, Lancashire ca. ...

References

Further reading

• William Turner Pals: the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington), East Lancashire Regiment ISBN 0-9507892-4-

External links

• Hyndburn Borough Council
• Accrington Observer Local newspaper's website
• Accrington Web Accrington forum and town information
• The Bee The local radio station
• It's HYNDBURN Local news and information portal
• Accrington Market Accrington Victorian Market Hall and Out Door Market
• Accrington Moorhead Sports College
• A 3D map of Accrington You can see the town of Accrigton and parking