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Encyclopedia > Farington
Farington
Grid reference: SD549232
Status: Town
Region: North West England
Admin. County: Lancashire
Area:
Admin. HQ: Preston
Demographics
Population:
- Density
Ethnicity:
Politics
Leadership: Leader & Cabinet
Executive: Labour
MPs: David Borrow

Farington is a small village to the immediate north of Leyland in Lancashire in the United Kingdom. Farington is a rural community, although signs of farming are on the decrease as the area becomes more of a commuting base for workers using the nearby motorways. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... The region, also known as Government Office Region, is currently the highest tier of local government subnational entity of England in the United Kingdom. ... North West England is one of the nine regions of England. ... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a Physical quantity. ... Preston is a city and local government district in North West England. ... In physics, density is defined as mass m per unit volume V. For the common case of a homogeneous substance, it is expressed as: where, in SI units: ρ (rho) is the density of the substance, measured in kg·m-3 m is the mass of the substance, measured in kg... The United Kingdom is divided into four parts, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ... This is a list of MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005 to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the United Kingdom general election, 2005, arranged by constituency. ... David Stanley Borrow (born August 2, 1952, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire) is a British politician, and Labour member of Parliament for South Ribble. ... Leyland is a town in the South Ribble borough of Lancashire, England. ... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...


Farington is a parish within South Ribble District Council, and is also within the Parliamentary Constituency of South Ribble. The relationship between Farington and Leyland has always been strong but Farington is not part of Leyland and is a disrict of Preston. Stanifield Lane which runs through the village and into Leyland is the main thoroughfare for shoppers and commuters alike. There is a Catholic convent in Farington, serving a moderately large Catholic population. Farington no longer has a railway station as this was taken away in the sweeping changes to the rail network in the 1960s and 1970s. An entire rail line was also taken away, only the overgrown outlines of tracks remain. A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ... South Ribble is a local government district and borough in Lancashire, England. ... South Ribble is a local government district and borough in Lancashire, England. ...


Farington is linked with Lostock Hall, to the north, in the Farington County Council Ward. Lostock Hall is a small village in Lancashire to the south of Preston and to the north of Farington. ...


Coordinates: 53.70327° N 2.68464° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


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