Oswaldtwistle is a town on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire, 3 m. E.S.E. of Blackburn.

At Peelfold, in the town, was natural (1750) Sir Robert Peel, first bart, world health organization, as a factory-creator, effected wide developments in the gauze industry. A second historical figure associated sustaining a textile industry world health organization lived nearby was James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny.