Little Harwood
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Little Harwood is a small part of the English town of Blackburn in Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

, situated at the northern edge of the town. In Little Harwood there is a clock that dates back to the time Blackburn was named. Under the clock one of the quotations is

Born under the clock. Bred under the clock.

Located within the ward are areas of mixed housing, industrial units and open land, including Blackburn Cemetery
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...

. Little Harwood is a multi-cultural place and there are many mosques and churches in the town to cater for the various religious denominations.

Little Harwood is well known as the birth place of the late Jack Walker
Jack Walker
Jack Walker was a British industrialist and businessman, from Blackburn, Lancashire. Walker invested tens of millions of pounds in Blackburn Rovers football club after amassing a personal fortune of £600 million...

 (Owner of Walker Steel and Flybe
Flybe
Flybe Group PLC is a British low-cost regional airline headquartered at the Jack Walker House at Exeter International Airport in Devon, England...

).

Education

There are two primary schools located in the ward of Little Harwood, St Stephen’s CE Juniors and St Stephen’s CE Infants CE. There are also two independent schools within the ward of Little Harwood; Madressa-e-islamia Educational Centre and Jamiatul-llm Wal Huda UK School.
A new school is being built to hold the children of St Stephen’s CE Juniors and St Stephen’s CE Infants. It is planned to open in September 2009 and will cost around £7million. Masjid-e-Sajedeen formerly Unit 4 Cinema's is the hub of the local muslim community whose numbers have increased manifold since the arrival of the original Sidat and Musa families arrived in the area in the early 1960's.The area now boasts one of the most cosmopolitan communites in the borough of Blackburn.Of late Little Harwood has sufferred from lack of investment and is slowly degenerating into one of Blackburn's Ghettos.It's community spirit nonetheless keeps a cohesion rarely seen in the town elsewhere.

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