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Blackpool Tower, Lancashire

Blackpool Tower Blackpool Tower rises high above the town of Blackpool in Lancashire, a cast iron masterpiece built purely as a tourist attraction overlooking the seafront, as which it still serves. The tower was modelled on the Eiffel Tower in Paris and was opened to the public on 14 May 1894. At 518 feet tall it is currently reckoned the 120th tallest freestanding tower in the world. (Read more)