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Blackburn with Darwen

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Blackburn with Darwen
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Blackburn with Darwen is a borough in north west England. It consists of Blackburn, the small town of Darwen to the south of it, and surrounding countryside. It was founded in 1974 as the Lancashire borough of Blackburn, from the County Borough of Blackburn, the Borough of Darwen, and parts of Turton Rural District and Blackburn Rural District.

It was renamed in May 1997, in preparation for splitting from Lancashire. On April 1, 1998 it became a unitary authority and administrative county in its own right.

The county borders Greater Manchester, and Lancashire.

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Districts of England - North West England
Allerdale | Barrow-in-Furness | Blackburn with Darwen | Blackpool | Bolton | Burnley | Bury | Carlisle | Chester | Chorley | Congleton | Copeland | Crewe and Nantwich | Eden | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Fylde | Halton | Hyndburn | Knowsley | Lancaster | Liverpool | Macclesfield | Manchester | Oldham | Pendle | Preston | Ribble Valley | Rochdale | Rossendale | St Helens | Salford | Sefton | South Lakeland | South Ribble | Stockport | Tameside | Trafford | Vale Royal | Warrington | West Lancashire | Wigan | Wirral | Wyre

Administrative counties with multiple districts: Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside