The village is primarily a
suburb of Blackburn, off
Preston Old Road near the boundary with the borough of
Chorley. The village's Park Farm and Feniscowles Bridge neighborhoods are home to an abundance of homes established during the 1960s. The village is on the
Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Bridge 92, to the south of the village, also known as Millfield Bridge, is a Grade II
listed structure and is described by
English Heritage as: "Accommodation bridge over Leeds-Liverpool Canal. 1811-16, Supervising Engineer probably
Joseph Priestley. Squared sandstone. Elliptical portal with rusticated voussoirs and keystone, band, parapet with ridge coping, pilastered ends to curved keepers". The village also lies on the
Blackburn to Chorley railway line, which was built in 1866–69. The village's
railway station closed in 1960, with the line closing completely in 1968. Industry in the village includes a
Sappi Blackburn Mill, originally built in 1875 as the Star Paper Mill. Another paper mill, also built in the 1870s and known as the Sun Paper Mill, closed in 1992 and has now been demolished. On the edge of the village, next to the
River Darwen is Feniscowles New Hall, now a ruin but in the 19th century the home of the
Feilden family. In the village there is a school called Feniscowles Primary. == History ==