Accrington
| Accrington | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 45 ′ N , 2 ° 22 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 35,456 United Kingdom Census 2011 | ||
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| Post town | ACCRINGTON | ||
| prefix | 01254 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North West England | ||
| Shire county | Lancashire | ||
| District | Hyndburn | ||
| British Parliament | Hyndburn | ||
| Website: www.accrington.co.uk | |||
Accrington is a city in the county of Lancashire in north-west England in the United Kingdom . It belongs to the Borough of Hyndburn and had 31,456 inhabitants in 2011. Accrington is 4 miles east of Blackburn , 6 miles west of Burnley , 13 miles east of Preston and 20 miles north of Manchester city center . The industrial city is a former center of the cotton and textile machine industry.
Accrington is known for producing the hardest and densest bricks in the world ( The Accrington NORI ), which were used, among other things, for the substructure of the Empire State Building , for the football club Accrington Stanley FC and the Haworth Art Gallery , which has the largest collection of Tiffany -Glass art houses in Europe.
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