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Church is a village in Hyndburn, Lancashire, England; situated a mile west of Accrington. The local travel links are located less than a mile from the village centre to Church and Oswaldtwistle railway station and to Blackpool Airport. Also, the main road running through the village is the A679. The village has a population of 3,988 according to the 2001 census. The parish church is the Church of St James, which has late medieval tower (damaged by fire in 1983) and a nave constructed in 1805. Church's nearest hospital is ''Accrington Victoria Hospital'', and the nearest A&E is the ''Royal Blackburn Hospital''. Church's most famous son was Edward Ormerod or Ormrod (1834-1894), inventor in 1867 of the patent Ormerod Butterfly Clip, which has been responsible for saving the lives of generations of coal miners. Church has a few novelties, such as a Lidl, a KFC, a bakery (''Yates), a Coral, a Texaco, a sports centre (''Hyndburn Sports Centre''), which opened in 1977, a fire station (''Hyndburn Community Fire Station''), which opened in 2003, a post office (''Dill Hall Post Office''), a ''Howarth Timber'', a car sales/tyres (''S&D Car Sales & Tyres''), a motorstore/bike shop (''A1 Top Gear Motorstore''), an appliance repair/sales (''E&D Domestics''), a chippy (''Henry Street Chippy''), and an Italian "''Pizzeria Ristorante''" (''Monte Cristo''). The village also had an Arnold Clark, and there was previously a ''Bowker'' BMW and Mini car dealer on the border with Accrington, but it closed down during 2010, and was demolished in January 2015. This was in order to make way for a pub and restaurant called ''Brickworks''. A small library, ''Church Library'', was located in the village, but it closed during 2006. ==Governance== Church was once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley, covering Oswaldtwistle Moor in the south and with Hyndburn Brook forming the boundary with Rishton as far as Dunkenhalgh in Clayton-le-Moors and past Dill Hall toward Whalley Road. This became a civil parish in 1866. Between 1894 and 1974 the area was administered by an Urban District. It has since become an unparished part of the borough of Hyndburn. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Church, Lancashire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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