Talk:Nelson, Lancashire

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I thought Nelson was called Nelson in commemoration of Lord Nelson after originally being called Marsden —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.255.32.14 (talk • contribs) 15 May 2005

Whoever wrote the above - and it is better to sign it! - that is what the article says: called after the inn called after Lord Nelson! Peter Shearan 13:13, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

According to my father (who was born and raised in Nelson), the origin of the town's name is as stated in the article i.e. the town was named after the station which was named after the Lord Nelson Inn. Presumably this is verifiable from public and railway company records.

More interestingly, perhaps, this an unusual case in modern times (post Norman?) of an English town being named after a person: the only other one I know of is Carterton in Oxfordshire. Gtawc 00:10, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't appear to have been named after the person, but the inn, as previously stated. I've added a reference that confirms that the town was indeed named after the Lord Nelson Inn, not Nelson himself. --Malleus Fatuorum 04:23, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Couldn't find the stats

I'm not sure if this is correct or not:

'59.02% of adults between the ages of 16 and 74 are classed as economically active and in work'

I think as well as the fact that adults can't be aged 16 or 17, I couldn't find from the source provided a way of extracting this statistic. The source is a blank ONS search page - so I'm not sure how to check the source for this assertion (I'd have to use the same search criteria of the writer).

Also, if 16-18s are included in this stat - does 'economically active' include those in full time education. If not that would skew the statistics to suggest a higher-than-is-accurate 'unemployment' level. If so the sentence should read 'economically active OR in work'.

Anyway I'm not 100% on any of this so wasn't sure whether to make the edit - any thoughts?? JohnMcEwan (talk) 19:49, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Religion

The section regarding churches and places of worship and the details of what religions is missing from this article. can somone please add some information on this thanks JMRH6 (talk) 16:45, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Worth adding this?

Would it be worth mentioning something briefly about Nelson's 'British in India museum'? Under the recreation section perhaps? It's a slightly unusual kind of attraction, and it seems a shame to leave it out...

That sounds perfectly reasonable, would you be interested I writing a couple of sentences about it (with a source to show where the information comes from)? Nev1 (talk) 18:52, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

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