Darwen

market town in Lancashire, UK
Place town Q1166842
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Darwen

Summary

Darwen is a town[1]. Darwen ranks in the top 4% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (237 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Darwen is located in Blackburn with Darwen[3].
  • Darwen is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Darwen's image is recorded as Darwen.png[5].
  • Darwen's instance of is recorded as town[6].
  • Darwen's instance of is recorded as civil parish[7].
  • Darwen's instance of is recorded as market town[8].
  • Darwen's shares border with is recorded as Feniscowles[9].
  • Darwen's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 153709283[10].
  • Darwen's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n88081000[11].
  • Darwen's postal code is recorded as BB3[12].
  • Darwen's Commons category is recorded as Darwen[13].
  • Darwen's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 7585075[14].
  • Darwen's located in time zone is recorded as UTC±00:00[15].
  • Darwen's local dialing code is recorded as 01254[16].
  • Darwen's OS grid reference is recorded as SD695225[17].
  • Darwen's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 53.698, 'lon': -2.461}[18].
  • Darwen's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0206h8[19].
  • Darwen's GSS code is recorded as E04012080[20].
  • Darwen's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Darwen[21].
  • Darwen's MusicBrainz area ID is recorded as 79e92a96-4c6e-47bb-aee4-02324bb3567c[22].
  • Darwen's population is recorded as {'amount': '+28124'}[23].
  • Darwen's population is recorded as {'amount': '+28046'}[24].
  • Darwen's WOEID is recorded as 17959[25].
  • Darwen's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • Darwen's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia (1902–1905)[27].

Body

Geography

Darwen is in the country of United Kingdom[4]. Darwen is located in Blackburn with Darwen[3].

Physical Characteristics

Darwen's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+7.58'}[28]. Population counts include {'amount': '+28124'}[23] and {'amount': '+28046'}[24].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include town[6], civil parish[7], and market town[8].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Darwen include Darwen F.C.[29], an association football club[30], in United Kingdom[31], founded in 1870[32], headquartered in Darwen[33] and Darwen railway station[34], a railway station[35], in United Kingdom[36].

Why It Matters

Darwen ranks in the top 4% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (237 views/month).[2] Darwen has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Darwen is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Entities named for Darwen include Darwen F.C.[29], an association football club[30], in United Kingdom[31], founded in 1870[32], headquartered in Darwen[33] and Darwen railway station[34], a railway station[35], in United Kingdom[36].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 2.0. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [34] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] . 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. [37] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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