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  • ===Road=== ...ipton; the A585 from [[Kirkham, Lancashire|Kirkham]] to [[Fleetwood]]; the A666 from the A59 north of Blackburn to Bolton via [[Darwen]]; and the A683 from
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  • The main road through Darwen is the A666 towards Blackburn to the north and Bolton to the south, and ultimately [[Ma ...ainly accessible from the north (Blackburn) and south (Bolton) by the A666 road. Its weather conditions made it perfect for cotton weaving and as a result
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  • ...0 motorway''', '''Manchester Ring Motorway''', or '''Manchester Outer Ring Road''', is an orbital motorway around the [[Manchester]] conurbation in [[Lanca ...op. In 2004, a section of the northern M60 was the UK's busiest stretch of road, with an average of 181,000 vehicles per day using the stretch between junc
    9 KB (1,329 words) - 10:54, 25 June 2016
  • ...amily. Agecroft Hall Estate is a recently built housing estate on Agecroft Road (A6044), named after the hall. ...er Station, via a conveyor belt system that crossed a bridge over Agecroft Road. Mining finished in 1990, and the Agecroft Colliery site is now home to the
    19 KB (2,952 words) - 23:24, 16 November 2018
  • ...This stretch of the road on the approach to the terminus with the M60 ring road is a collection of sliproads and overpass tunnels providing free-flowing ac *the A580 (East Lancashire Road)
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  • ...d shortly after it opened with a new, quieter tarmac because the amount of road noise had been so great that it prevented birds of prey (mainly owls) from ===Unusual spur road===
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  • The village is situated on the A666 Whalley Road, between the Brownhill area of Blackburn and the village of [[Langho]]. Th
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  • ...[Farnworth]] to the north-west, though separated from it by the A666 trunk road and motorway spur. ...ea was a busy coal mining area. Several street names such as Moss Colliery Road (in nearby [[Clifton, Lancashire|Clifton]]) bear testimony to this. The lar
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  • ...er Irwell in Salford. The canal is currently navigable as far as Oldfield Road, Salford. ...ry and Ladyshore Colliery. Some of these pits were linked to the canal by road, and some by short tramlines.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hindle|2005|p=8.}}</ref><ref>{{H
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