Whitebirk

Whitebirk

Whitebirk is a suburb in the east of Blackburn, in Lancashire, England. Most of the suburb is in Blackburn with Darwen, a unitary area, with the east of the suburb being in the borough of Hyndburn. Whitebirk is part of the Blackburn urban area. [cite web | url=http://www.northwesteip.co.uk/downloads/documents/20061030094159.doc | title=Regional Spatial Strategy - Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council statement | year=2006 | accessdate=2008-03-13 | publisher=Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council ]

The area is largely industrial and is the eastern terminus of the town's northern ring road, the A6119, where it meets junction 6 of the M65. To the west of the ring road there is Burnley Road and the Greenbank Business Park, and to the east, across the boundary in Hyndburn, is the Peel Retail Centre. The retail park was built in the 1980s on the site of Whitebirk Power Station, which was opened in 1921 and closed in 1976. [cite web | url=http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?language=eng&pageID=2941 | title=Blackburn Encyclopaedia W | accessdate=2008-03-13 | last=Smith | first=Ray | publisher=Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council ]

The suburb also includes a council estate, which is situated between the A679 Accrington Road, A678 Burnley Road and A6119 Whitebirk Road. [ [http://www.get-with-it.org.uk/whitebirk/whitebirk.html Welcome to the website for the Community Health Development Team ] ]

The areas of Whitebirk are in different wards for local government: the residential area is in Shadsworth & Whitebirk, the industrial estate is in Little Harwood, and the retail park is in Rishton ward.

Companies based in the Whitebirk area include the bus manufacturer Darwen Group, formerly known as East Lancashire Coachbuilders, on the industrial estate, and EDC Blackburn, the UK's largest CD manufacturer [cite web | url=http://edc-blackburn.co.uk/ | title=EDC Blackburn | accessdate=2008-04-07 ] , located between Whitebirk and Little Harwood.

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