Rent Houses West Bromwich

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Rent Houses West Midlands

Approximate Population: 136,940

West Bromwich is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands, England. It is 5 miles (8.0 km) north west of Birmingham lying on the A41 London-to-Birkenhead road. is part of the Black Country. is the largest town within the Borough of Sandwell with a population of 136,940 (2001).

is famous for its football club, Albion.   The club was founded in 1878 and in 1888 it became one of the twelve founder members of the Football League.   It won the league championship in 1920 and has won the FA Cup five times, most recently in 1968.   The club recently won the Coca Cola Championship in 2008.   Albion were based in and around the centre of during their formative years, but moved further out of the town in 1900 when they switched to their current ground, The Hawthorns.

Engineering and chemicals are important to the town’s economy, as it played a crucial part in the Industrial Revolution during the 19th century and still retains many manufacturing jobs to this day, despite a steady nationwide decline in this sector since the 1970s.

Sandwell General Hospital is located near the town centre.   It is part of the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the United Kingdom.  William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth had his seat at Sandwell Hall.   Legge was unusual as an aristocrat of this period by being a Methodist and attending the Wednesbury Methodist meetings, where fellow Methodists – many of them colliers and drovers – knew him as “Brother Earl”.

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Rent Houses Halifax

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Rent Houses West Yorkshire

Approximate Population: 82,056

is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of 82,056 in the 2001 Census. It is well-known as a centre of England’s woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, originally dealing through the Piece Hall. Internationally famous for its Mackintosh chocolate and toffee (now owned by Nestlé), the Building Society and Shibden Hall.

was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1848 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and with the passing of the Local Government Act 1888 became a County Borough in 1889.   Since 1974, has been the administrative centre of the Metropolitan District of Calderdale, part of the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire.

North is noted for its local support of the far-right British National Party; the suburb of Mixenden became the first area in West Yorkshire to popularly vote in a BNP councillor, with Illingworth soon to follow.

Topographically, is located in the south-eastern corner of the moorland region called the South Pennines. is situated about 4 miles (6.4 km) from the M62 motorway close to Bradford, Huddersfield and Rochdale.   The Tees-Exe line passes through the A641 road, which links nearby Brighouse with Bradford and Huddersfield, The town lies 65 miles (105 km) from Kingston upon Hull and Liverpool, and about 200 miles (320 km) from the cities of London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin and Cardiff as the crow flies. The major waterway is the River Calder.

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Rent Houses Preston

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Approximate Population: 131,900

Preston is a city and non-metropolitan district of Lancashire, in North West England. It is located on the north bank of the River Ribble, and was granted city status in 2002, becoming England’s 50th city in the 50th year of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. has a population of 131,900, and lies at the centre of the wider sub-area, which has a population of 184,836, and the Central Lancashire sub-region, with a population of 335,000.

In the mid-12th century, was in the hundred of Amounderness,in the deanery of Amounderness and the archdeaconry of Richmond.   The name “Amounderness” is more ancient than the name of any other “Wapentake” or hundred in the County of Lancashire, and the fort at Tulketh, strengthened by William the Conqueror, shows that the strategic importance of the area was appreciated even then.

In the last great Jacobite Rising, on 27 November 1745 the Jacobite Prince of Wales and Regent, Bonnie Prince Charlie passed through with his Highland Army on the way south through Chorley and Manchester to Derby intending to take London and the Crown.

was the first of the very few places in England where the Prince was cheered as he rode by and where he was actually joined by some English volunteers for his Army.   From 10 to 12 December the Prince gave his retreating Army a rest in on their long, last and fatal retreat from Derby through Lancaster and Carlisle to their dreadful day of destiny the following 16 April on Culloden Moor near Inverness.

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Rent Houses Blackburn

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Lancashire

Approximate Population: 105,085

Blackburn is a large town in Lancashire, England.   It lies to the north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, 8.9 miles (14.3 km) east of the city of Preston, and 21 miles (34 km) north-northwest of the city of Manchester. is bounded to the south by Darwen, with which it forms the unitary authority area of with Darwen, being the administrative centre.   At the time of the UK Government’s 2001 census, had a population of 105,085, whilst the wider borough had a population of 137,470.

A former mill town, textiles have been produced in since the middle of the 13th century, when locally produced wool was woven in people’s houses. Flemish weavers who settled in the area during the 14th century helped to develop the industry.

James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny, was a weaver in .  The most rapid period of growth and development in ’s history coincided with the industrialisation and expansion of textile manufacturing.   was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the first industrialised towns in the world.

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