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Nelson
Nelson in Lancashire is first mentioned as an entry in the Domesday Book and grew as a textile mill town during the Industrial Revolution, with major manufacturers including William Yates, Lord Shuttleworth and Samuel Brooks.
The town became part of Pendle Borough Council in 1974 following local government reorganisation, until its abolition on 1 April 2009 when all of Lancashire’s borough councils became unitary authorities.
Blacko Tower
Local History
Historic monuments near Nelson
- Twiston lime kiln and associated tramway 250m east of Twiston Mill – 8.44 km away
- Northern part of Rimington lead mines, part of a medieval open field system and three limestone clamp kilns 120m south east of Hollins – 8.69 km away
- Warren at Everage Clough 450m north east of New Copy Farm – 7.84 km away
- Burwains Camp prehistoric defended settlement west of Broad Bank Hill – 4.83 km away
- Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill – 4.76 km away
- Twist Castle Romano-British farmstead – 4.96 km away
- Two Romano-British farmsteads known as Ring Stones – 5.35 km away
- Beadle Hill Romano-British farmstead – 4.59 km away
- Ring cairn 25m east of Ell Clough – 5.39 km away
- Saucer barrow 90m east of Ell Clough – 5.46 km away
- Bowl barrow 155m east of Beadle Hill – 4.76 km away
- Bowl barrow 90m east of Twist Castle – 4.96 km away
- Ring cairn on Slipper Hill – 5.54 km away
- Round cairn on Hameldon Pasture – 5.99 km away
- Bowl barrow on Hameldon Pasture – 5.99 km away
- Pike Low bowl barrow and site of beacon, Bonfire Hill – 4.85 km away
- Small stone circle on Delf Hill – 5.64 km away
- Round cairn 230m west of Bleara Lowe – 9.81 km away
- Castercliff small multivallate hillfort – 2.35 km away
- Ightenhill Manor (site of) – 5.72 km away
- Higherford Old Bridge – 2.38 km away
- Ice house at Towneley Hall – 6.90 km away
- Oakmount Mill engine and engine house, Wiseman Street – 5.81 km away