Nelson is placed Foursome miles n of Burnley, 25 miles east of Preston, 25 miles northerly of Manchester and 30 miles west of Leeds.

A town was known as when a Lord Nelson Pub at a carrefour around which Nelson developed. It grew higher as an industrial town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its economy existence mostly depending upon a textile industry (in the main cotton gauze weaving). A textile industry has currently sharply declined, allowing a town sustaining high unemployment. It was besides associated by having a production of confectionery, including Jelly Babies and Victory Vs. A Pack Holiday company Airtours (formally Pendle Travel & recently confiscate by My Travel) began life as an independent travel agent on this button. A town is too residence to Nelson F.C., a formerly professional football club that spent ten years in the Football League but nows plays in the lower reaches of the semi-professional leagues.

Despite existence at home to the lot big South Asian community than adjoining Burnley, no "race riots" st& occurred on this button, and a far best-wing British National Person keep close at hand failed to benefit any seats inside local elections in any a portion of the borough.