Stoneyholme is a district of

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, England, situated immediately north of the town centre. It is bounded by the

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to the west, and by the railway and the

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to the east, and consists of predominantly pre-1919

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. Stoneyholme developed between 1860 and 1914 to house Burnley's expanding workforce. It had fewer industrial buildings than its near-neighbour Daneshouse, but these included the Ashley Street Dye Works (opened 1909; now converted to workshop units) and several gas holders, two of which survive. In recent years, it has suffered from housing market failure, and is now part of East Lancashire's Elevate scheme to clear, rebuild or

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sub-standard housing. It lies in the Daneshouse with Stoneyholme

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, which is 90.85%

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. The

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places the ward among the 5% most deprived in the United Kingdom. 40.22% of children in the ward are eligible for

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. There were 339.8 crimes per 1,000 inhabitants in the year to December 2007 (

average 89.4), an increase of 3.1% on the previous twelve months. A £3.6m privately financed project to construct the Burnley Islamic Cultural Centre, together with a new building for the

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and Madrasah, is currently underway in the ward.

References

External links

Stoneyholme OnlineStoneyholme Community Primary SchoolSure Start Daneshouse & Stoneyholme
Districts in Burnley {{Lancashire-geo-stub