Whalley Range is an urban area in
Blackburn
Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north-n ...
,
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
. The area is a community with almost all residents being of
India
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n or
Pakistan
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i heritage. Houses in the area are predominantly
terraced
In agriculture, a terrace is a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of more effective farming. This type of landscaping is therefore ...
and go up on a hill in a typical Pennine
mill town style.
{{Blackburn with Darwen geography
Geography of Blackburn with Darwen