Witton Country Park is a 480 acre (1.9 km²) public park in the west of Blackburn, Lancashire. Approximately half of the park is mixed woodland and parkland, while the remainder is either farmland or rough grassland with open access. A visitor's centre features stables with exhibitions of old horse drawn farm machinery, farm hand-tools and a natural history room. A mammal centre houses shrews, voles, ferrets, rabbits and other animals, which are on display to the public. An acre is a measure of land area in Imperial units or U.S. customary units. ... An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Lancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster) is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. ... Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as a number of distinct scientific disciplines. ... Orders Subclass Monotremata Monotremata Subclass Marsupialia Didelphimorphia Paucituberculata Microbiotheria Dasyuromorphia Peramelemorphia Notoryctemorphia Diprotodontia Subclass Placentalia Xenarthra Dermoptera Desmostylia Scandentia Primates Rodentia Lagomorpha Insectivora Chiroptera Pholidota Carnivora Perissodactyla Artiodactyla Cetacea Afrosoricida Macroscelidea Tubulidentata Hyracoidea Proboscidea Sirenia The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the presence of mammary glands... This article is about the animal; see also The Taming of the Shrew for the use of this term to describe a person. ... Genera Microtus Myodes Phenacomys Lagurus Arvicola A vole is a small rodent resembling a mouse but with a stouter body; a shorter, hairy tail; and smaller ears and eyes. ... Trinomial name Mustela putorius furo This article is about the mammal. ... Genera Pentalagus Bunolagus Nesolagus Romerolagus Brachylagus Sylvilagus Oryctolagus Poelagus The bane of Australian farmers - the wild rabbit An old rabbit trap Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae, found in many parts of the world. ...
It is also worth noting that the Park is host to a Secondary School.
WittonCountryPark is 480 acres of beautiful mixed woodland, parkland and farmland to the west of Blackburn.
Fortunately the outbuildings of Witton House survived and these former stables and coach-houses were renovated in the late 1970s. They were officially opened in 1980 as the visitor centre for the countrypark.
There is one working farm within the country park. As the farm is centrally placed within the park there are several footpaths enabling access from the visitor centre and showfield through the farm fields to lead up to Billinge Hill and woods at the top end of the park.
Blackburn is known to fans of The Beatles as the town featured in the song "A Day in the Life".
Actor Steve Pemberton was born in Blackburn in 1967 and is most famous for co-writing and co-starring in BBC television comedy series The League of Gentlemen.
Bill Fox, chairman of Blackburn Rovers and president of the Football League from 1998 until his death in 1991, was born in Blackburn on 6 January 1928.
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