Accrington

town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England
Place town Q1622949
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Accrington

Summary

Accrington is a town[1]. Accrington ranks in the top 3% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (250 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Accrington is located in Hyndburn[3].
  • Accrington is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Accrington's image is recorded as Town Hall. - geograph.org.uk - 525051.jpg[5].
  • Accrington's instance of is recorded as town[6].
  • Accrington's instance of is recorded as unparished area[7].
  • Accrington's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 146684731[8].
  • Accrington's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n88080831[9].
  • Accrington's postal code is recorded as BB5[10].
  • Accrington's Commons category is recorded as Accrington[11].
  • Accrington's located in time zone is recorded as UTC±00:00[12].
  • Accrington's local dialing code is recorded as 01254[13].
  • Accrington's OS grid reference is recorded as SD761286[14].
  • Accrington's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 53.75337, 'lon': -2.36384}[15].
  • Accrington's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0136p[16].
  • Accrington's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Accrington[17].
  • Accrington's page banner is recorded as Accrington banner Stream at Hyndburn road.jpg[18].
  • Accrington's MusicBrainz area ID is recorded as 3278cb38-93b9-4372-a939-edb8dbb539c3[19].
  • Accrington's Curlie ID is recorded as Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Lancashire/Accrington/[20].
  • Accrington's population is recorded as {'amount': '+35456'}[21].
  • Accrington's WOEID is recorded as 10313[22].
  • Accrington's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[23].
  • Accrington's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[24].
  • Accrington's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[25].
  • Accrington's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[26].
  • Accrington's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[27].

Body

Geography

Accrington is in the country of United Kingdom[4]. Accrington is located in Hyndburn[3].

Physical Characteristics

Accrington's population is recorded as {'amount': '+35456'}[21].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include town[6] and unparished area[7].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Accrington include Accrington F.C.[28], an association football club[29], in United Kingdom[30], founded in 1876[31], headquartered in Accrington[32].

Why It Matters

Accrington ranks in the top 3% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (250 views/month).[2] Accrington has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33]

Entities named for Accrington include Accrington F.C.[28], an association football club[29], in United Kingdom[30], founded in 1876[31], headquartered in Accrington[32].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 2.0. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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