New signage will make it easier for visitors to discover a Cowling landmark.

A memorial cairn dedicated to the Labour Party’s first Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Philip Snowden, sits in a field on Ickornshaw Moor.

And Mark Barnes, chairman of history group Moonrakers, has arranged for two signs to be installed on Colne Road at a cost of £250. They will replace two older signs, which were originally erected in the 1950s.

However, Mr Barnes, who is also a member of Cowling Parish Council, said the two older signs have been refurbished at a cost of £200 and will be placed on Park Lane and Reedshaw Lane, which provide access to the memorial.

The memorial cairn, which commemorates the former MP for Blackburn and Colne Valley, will also be refurbished later this year.

Mr Barnes said that Blackburn’s Labour Party had donated £100 to have the cairn re-pointed and its memorial plaques cleaned.

Viscount Snowden, who was born in Middleton, died at the age of 72 in May, 1937 and the memorial cairn was erected shortly after his death.