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Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster.[1] Its county council is based in Preston, the county's administrative capital. Lancaster however is still considered to be the county town. Commonly, Lancashire is referred to by the abbreviation Lancs, originally used by the Royal Mail. People from the county are known as Lancastrians. The county was subject to a significant boundary change in 1974,[2] which removed Liverpool and Manchester with most of their surrounding conurbations to form part of the metropolitan counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester.[3] The Duchy of Lancaster exercises the right of the Crown in the area known as the County Palatine of Lancaster. Image File history File links map of Lancashire within England File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Preston is a city and local government district in Lancashire, England and is located on the River Ribble. ...
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Robert Ben Lobban Wallace known as Ben Wallace (born 15th May, 1970, Farnborough) is the Conservative member of Parliament for the Lancashire constituency of Lancaster and Wyre, elected at the 2005 General Election Wallace was born in Farnborough and attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and served in the...
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West Lancashire is a local government district in Lancashire, England. ...
Chorley is a local government district with borough status, in Lancashire, England. ...
South Ribble is a local government district and borough in Lancashire, England. ...
Fylde is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. ...
Preston is a city and local government district in Lancashire, England and is located on the River Ribble. ...
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Logo The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. ...
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Pendle is a district borough of Lancashire, England, on the North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire borders. ...
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Lancaster is a city within Lancashire, in North West England. ...
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Preston is a city and local government district in Lancashire, England and is located on the River Ribble. ...
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Location within England Coordinates: , Country United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government - Type Metropolitan borough, City - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area - Borough & City 43. ...
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Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
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[edit] Divisions and environs The area under the control of the county council, or shire county, is divided into a number of local government districts. They are Burnley, Bolton, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, the Ribble Valley, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire, and Wyre.[4][5] A shire county or non-metropolitan county in England, is a county level entity which is not a metropolitan county. ...
Burnley is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire in North West England. ...
Bolton is a large town in the north-west of England. ...
Chorley is a local government district with borough status, in Lancashire, England. ...
Fylde is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. ...
Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. ...
Logo The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. ...
Pendle is a district borough of Lancashire, England, on the North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire borders. ...
Preston is a city and local government district in Lancashire, England and is located on the River Ribble. ...
Ribble Valley is a local government district with borough status in the administrative county of Lancashire, England. ...
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South Ribble is a local government district and borough in Lancashire, England. ...
West Lancashire is a local government district in Lancashire, England. ...
This article is about the district of Wyre in England. ...
Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen are unitary authorities which form part of the county for various functions such as Lord Lieutenant but do not come under county council control.[6] The Lancashire Constabulary covers the two unitary authorities.[7] The ceremonial county, the area including the unitary authorities, borders Cumbria, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, and the metropolitan counties of Greater Manchester, and Merseyside and forms part of the North West England region.[8] It has been suggested that South Shore, Blackpool be merged into this article or section. ...
Blackburn with Darwen (Dwrgwyn) is a borough in Lancashire, North West England. ...
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Lancashire Constabulary is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the ceremonial county of Lancashire in the North West England. ...
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[edit] Lancashire County Council -
The county council, serving the shire county, is based in County Hall in Preston, built as a home for the Lancashire county administration (including the Quarter Sessions and Lancashire Constabulary) and opened on September 14, 1882.[9] Lancashire County Council is the local authority for the county of Lancashire, England. ...
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Preston is a city and local government district in Lancashire, England and is located on the River Ribble. ...
The Courts of Quarter Sessions or Quarter Sessions were periodic courts held in each county and county borough in England and Wales until 1972, when together with the Assize courts they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court of England and Wales. ...
Lancashire Constabulary is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the ceremonial county of Lancashire in the North West England. ...
September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Local elections for 84 councillors from 84 divisions are held every four years. The council is currently Labour Party controlled.[10] Lancashire Council is elected every four years. ...
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[edit] Physical geography
[edit] County top The highest point of the ceremonial county is Gragareth, near Whernside, which reaches a height of 627 m (2,057 ft).[11] However, Green Hill near to Gragareth has also been cited as the county top.[citation needed] The highest point within the historic boundaries is Coniston Old Man in the Lake District at 803 m (2,634 ft).[12] Whernside is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales. ...
Green Hill, is a mountain in north west England. ...
Peak bagging (also hill bagging, mountain bagging, or among enthusiasts, just bagging) is a popular activity for hillwalkers and mountaineers in which they attempt to reach the summit of each peak in a region above some height, or having a particular feature. ...
The Old Man of Coniston is a fell in the English Lake District. ...
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[edit] Rivers and lakes Lancashire drains west from the Pennines into the Irish Sea. The major rivers which discharge into the sea are the Mersey (which forms the historic border with Cheshire and is now located entirely outside the ceremonial county), Ribble, Wyre and Lune. Now within Cumbria are the Leven and Duddon (which forms the historic border with Cumberland). Major tributaries of these rivers include the Calder, Crake, Darwen, Douglas, Hodder, Irwell, Roch, Tame and Yarrow. Typical Pennine scenery. ...
Ferry across the Mersey, June 2005 The River Mersey is a river in north-western England. ...
The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a...
The River Ribble at Ribchester The River Ribble is a river that runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire, in the North of England. ...
Map sources for the Wyre estuary at grid reference SD340479 This article is about the River Wyre in Lancashire. ...
The Lune passing through Lancaster The Lune passing through the gorge between the outlying fells of the Lake District and the Howgill Fells, with the local road, M6 motorway, and West Coast Main Line railway sharing the valley with the river The River Lune is a river of the United...
The River Leven is a short river in the (administrative) county of Cumbria, falling within the historic county of Lancashire. ...
The Duddon is a river of north-west England. ...
Cumberland is one of the 39 traditional counties of England. ...
The River Calder is a major tributary of the River Ribble starting above Burnley in Lancashire. ...
The River Crake is a short river in the historic county of Lancashire (administrative county of Cumbria) in north-west England. ...
The River Darwen is a river running through Darwen and Blackburn in Lancashire. ...
The River Douglas, also known as the River Asland, is a river in Lancashire in the north west of England. ...
The River Hodder is a river in Lancashire, England. ...
The River Irwell is a river in the counties of Lancashire and Greater Manchester in England. ...
The River Roch (pronounced roach) is a river in Greater Manchester in north-west England, a tributary of the River Irwell that gives Rochdale its name. ...
The River Tame is a river in Greater Manchester, England. ...
The River Yarrow is a river in Lancashire. ...
Within the historic boundaries are the lakes of Windermere, Coniston Water and Esthwaite Water in the Lake District, which now form part of Cumbria.[13][14] Windermere forms the traditional border with Westmorland, as does the River Brathay which feeds the lake at its northern end and the River Winster and flows into the Kent estuary to the south-east. Windermere from the north. ...
Coniston Water as seen from Holme Fell, 3 kilometres to the north. ...
Esthwaite Water is one of the smaller and less well-known lakes in the Lake District national park. ...
Westmorland (formerly also spelt Westmoreland, an even older spelling is Westmerland) is an area of north west England and one of the 39 historic counties of England. ...
The Brathay is a river of north-west England. ...
The River Winster is a river in the English county of Cumbria. ...
The River Kent is a short river in the county of Cumbria in England. ...
[edit] History - Main article: History of Lancashire
 The historic county boundaries The county was established in 1182[2] and later than many other counties. In the Domesday Book, its lands between the Ribble and the Mersey had been part of Cheshire and the territory to the north formed part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.[15] It bordered on Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire, and Cheshire. Lancashire was established as a county in 1182, making it one of the youngest of the traditional counties of England, although there is evidence that the boundaries of the county were settled as early as 1100. ...
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The River Ribble at Ribchester The River Ribble is a river that runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire, in the North of England. ...
The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a...
The West Riding as an administrative county prior to its abolition in 1974. ...
Cumberland is one of the 39 traditional counties of England. ...
Westmorland (formerly also spelt Westmoreland, an even older spelling is Westmerland) is an area of north west England and one of the 39 historic counties of England. ...
The county was divided into the six hundreds of Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland, Lonsdale, Salford and West Derby.[16] Lonsdale was further partitioned into Lonsdale North, which was the detached part north of Morecambe Bay (also known as Furness), and Lonsdale South. A hundred is an administrative division, frequently used in Europe and New England, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller geographical units. ...
Amounderness (Andernes in ancient times) is an area of England. ...
Blackburnshire was a former district of England around the town of Blackburn. ...
The Leyland hundred, or Leylandshire, was a hundred of the English county of Lancashire. ...
Lonsdale was a hundred of the English county of Lancashire. ...
The hundred of Salford (sometimes known as Salfordshire) was an ancient division of the county of Lancashire. ...
The hundred of West Derby (sometimes known as West Derbyshire, not to be confused with Derbyshire, which has a district formerly called West Derbyshire) is an ancient subdivision of Lancashire, covering the south-west of the county. ...
Morecambe Bay at low tide from Hest Bank, looking towards Grange-over-Sands. ...
Furness (IPA: ) is a peninsula in the southern part of Cumbria, in north-west England. ...
The Red Rose of Lancaster is the traditional symbol for the House of Lancaster, immortalized in the verse "In the battle for England's head/York was white, Lancaster red" (referring to the 15th century War of the Roses). The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower of Lancashire. ...
The House of Lancaster is a dynasty of English kings. ...
The House of York was a branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet, three of whom became English kings in the late 15th century. ...
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Lancashire is now much smaller than its historic extent due to a local government reform.[17] In 1889 an administrative county of Lancashire was created, covering the historic county except for county boroughs such as Liverpool and Manchester.[18] The area covered by the Lord-Lieutenant (termed now a ceremonial county) continued to cover the entirety of the administrative county along with the county boroughs, and thus was expanded slightly whenever boroughs annexed areas in other neighbouring counties. Examples of this include Wythenshawe (an area of Manchester south of the River Mersey and historically in Cheshire), and southern Warrington. This area also did not cover the western part of Todmorden, where the traditional border between Lancashire and Yorkshire runs through the middle of the town. The division into counties is one of the larger divisions of England. ...
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Location within England Coordinates: , Country United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government - Type Metropolitan borough, City - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area - Borough & City 43. ...
Manchester (pronounced ) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. ...
The Ceremonial counties of England are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government with reference to the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England. ...
Wythenshawe is a district in the south of the City of Manchester, in North West England. ...
Manchester (pronounced ) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. ...
Ferry across the Mersey, June 2005 The River Mersey is a river in north-western England. ...
The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a...
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During the 20th century the county became increasingly urbanised, particularly the southern part. To the existing county boroughs of Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Bolton, Bootle, Burnley, Bury, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Salford, St Helens and Wigan were added Blackpool (1904), Southport (1905), and Warrington (1900). The county boroughs also had many boundary extensions. The borders around the Manchester area were particularly complicated, with narrow protrusions of the administrative county between the county boroughs - Lees urban district formed a detached part of the administrative county, between Oldham county borough and the West Riding of Yorkshire.[19] (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
Barrow-in-Furness is a town in Cumbria, England. ...
This article is about Blackburn in Lancashire, England. ...
Bolton is a large town in the north-west of England. ...
Bootle is a town on the Mersey Estuary, North West England. ...
Burnley is a large market town in the north-east of Lancashire in north-west England with a population of 89,542[1] (2001 census). ...
Bury is a town in the north of Greater Manchester in the North West of England. ...
Location within England Coordinates: , Country United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government - Type Metropolitan borough, City - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area - Borough & City 43. ...
Manchester (pronounced ) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. ...
For the larger local government district, see Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. ...
Preston is a city and local government district in Lancashire, England and is located on the River Ribble. ...
For the larger local government district, see Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. ...
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Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, North West England. ...
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Lees is an urban district and village, lying two miles to the east of Oldham town centre in Greater Manchester, England. ...
By the census of 1971 the population of Lancashire (including all its associated county boroughs) had reached 5,129,416, making it then the most populous geographic county in the UK. The administrative county of Lancashire was also the most populous of its type outside of London, with a population of 2,280,359 in 1961. Image File history File linksMetadata Pendle_hill. ...
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Pendle Hill (summit 557 m above mean sea level) is located in the north-east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Colne, Nelson and Clitheroe. ...
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On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the administrative county of Lancashire was abolished, as were the county boroughs. The urbanised southern part largely became part of two new metropolitan counties. The south-western part became part of Merseyside, the south-eastern part was incorporated into Greater Manchester.[20] The new county of Cumbria took the Furness exclave.[2] The boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens and Sefton were entirely from Lancashire. In Greater Manchester the successor boroughs were Bury, Bolton, Manchester, Oldham (part), Rochdale, Salford, Tameside (part), Trafford (part) and Wigan. is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The six metropolitan counties shown within England The metropolitan counties are a type of county-level subnational entity in current use in England. ...
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ...
Cumbria (IPA: ), is a shire county in the extreme North West of England. ...
Location within England Coordinates: , Country United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government - Type Metropolitan borough, City - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area - Borough & City 43. ...
Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Merseyside, England. ...
St Helens is a Metropolitan Borough in Merseyside, North West England. ...
See Sefton, New South Wales for the suburb of Sydney, Australia. ...
The Metropolitan borough of Bury is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in the northwest of England. ...
The Metropolitan borough of Bolton is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. ...
Manchester (pronounced ) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. ...
This article relates to the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. ...
The Metropolitan borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester in North West England. ...
The City of Salford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. ...
Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in north west England. ...
The Metropolitan Borough of Trafford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. ...
The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a Metropolitan Borough of Greater Manchester, in the North West of England. ...
Warrington and Widnes, south of the new Merseyside/Greater Manchester border, rather than become part of Greater Manchester or Merseyside were instead made part of the new non-metropolitan county of Cheshire. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
Arms of the former Widnes Municipal Borough Council Widnes is a town in the borough of Halton and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. ...
The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a...
The urban districts of Barnoldswick and Earby, the Bowland Rural District and the parishes of Bracewell and Brogden and Salterforth from the Skipton Rural District from the West Riding of Yorkshire became part of the new Lancashire.[3] Statistics Population: 12,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD875465 Administration District: Pendle Shire county: Lancashire Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Lancashire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: Lancashire Constabulary Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: North West Post office...
Earby is a town in the North-West of England, near Barnoldswick and about five miles north of Colne. ...
Bowland was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. ...
Bracewell and Brogden is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. ...
Skipton was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. ...
The West Riding as an administrative county prior to its abolition in 1974. ...
One parish, Simonswood, was transferred from the borough of Knowsley in Merseyside to the district of West Lancashire in 1994.[21] Simonswood is a civil parish in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. ...
Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Merseyside, England. ...
West Lancashire is a local government district in Lancashire, England. ...
In 1998 the county borough system re-appeared in all but name, when Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen became independent unitary authorities. It has been suggested that South Shore, Blackpool be merged into this article or section. ...
Blackburn with Darwen (Dwrgwyn) is a borough in Lancashire, North West England. ...
A unitary authority is a term used in a two-tier local government system to describe a unit of local government that operates as a single tier. ...
The City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, founded in 1742, was named after Lancashire. It's neighbor city, York, PA is located about 30 miles to the west. The War of the Roses tradition continued with Lancaster using as its symbol the red rose, and York, the white. Nickname: Location of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania Location of Lancaster in Lancaster County Country United States State Pennsylvania County Lancaster Founded 1730 Incorporated March 10, 1818 Government - Mayor Rick Gray (D) Area - City 7. ...
Motto: Nickname: Map Political Statistics Founded Incorporated Borough:September 24, 1787 City:January 11, 1887 York County Mayor John Brenner Geographic Statistics Area - Total - Land - Water 13. ...
The War or Wars of the Roses may refer to, or have been referred to by: The historical Wars of the Roses, the civil war that took place in Mediæval Britain between the House of York and the House of Lancaster. ...
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In 2004 the Boundary Committee for England published recommendations for a new systems of unitary authorities in the North West. A referendum in the North East rejected a similar reform there and plans to hold a further reform in the North West, including Lancashire, were cancelled. The three northern regions. ...
The Boundary Committee for England is an independent body in England responsible for defining borders for local elections; and for conducting reviews of local government areas. ...
A unitary authority is a type of local authority, which has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area. ...
The three northern regions. ...
[edit] Local identity A pressure group, the Friends of Real Lancashire, seek to promote use of the historic borders, and raised a petition in 1994 with 30,000 signatures calling "for the restoration of Lancashire's historic boundaries"[22][23] - the petition requested that the "Metropolitan Counties of Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cumbria [sic] be abolished and the real and historic county of Lancashire be restored". There is also a long-running campaign for Southport to be removed from Sefton in Merseyside.[24] The Friends of Real Lancashire are a pressure group affiliated to the Association of British Counties calling for the wider recognition of the historic boundaries of Lancashire. ...
For other uses, see Southport (disambiguation). ...
See Sefton, New South Wales for the suburb of Sydney, Australia. ...
Greater Manchester was never adopted as a postal county by the Royal Mail, and so places in Greater Manchester retained their Lancashire and Cheshire addresses. Bolton and Wigan, for example, are still classed as parts of Lancashire. Other changes to the administrative borders were reflected in the postal counties. The postal counties of the United Kingdom, now known officially as the former postal counties, were subdivisions of the UK in routine use by the Royal Mail until 1996. ...
Royal Mail is the national postal service of the United Kingdom. ...
[edit] Duchy of Lancaster The Duchy of Lancaster is one of two remaining royal duchies in the United Kingdom. It has large landholdings throughout the region and elsewhere, and operates as a property company, but also exercises the right of the Crown in the County Palatine of Lancaster.[25] The Duchy's website now describes the County Palatine as comprising of "the counties of Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and the Furness area of Cumbria"[26]. These new counties include areas formerly in Cheshire and Yorkshire and it is unclear as to whether this is a reference to the whole of the new counties or just the parts that comprised the Palatine prior to the 1974 boundary changes. However, in 1992 it was stated by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, William Waldegrave that the "boundaries of the county palatine are the same as the county boundaries which existed prior to local government reorganisation in 1973"[27] A not-so-nice duchy. ...
The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a...
Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...
William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC (born August 15, 1946), educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and now a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford is a British Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet from 1990 until 1997. ...
High Sheriffs for Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside are appointed "within the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster".[28]
The Duchy administers bona vacantia within the County Palatine, receiving the property of persons who die intestate, and where the legal ownership cannot be ascertained. Bona vacantia (Latin for vacant goods) is a common law doctrine in the United Kingdom under which ownerless property passes by law to the Crown. ...
There is no separate Duke of Lancaster, the title having merged in the Crown many centuries ago - but the Duchy is administered by the Queen in Right of the Duchy of Lancaster. A separate court system for the county palatine was finally abolished by Courts Act 1971. A particular form of the The Loyal Toast is still in regular local use: 'The Queen, Duke of Lancaster'. The Courts Act 1971 is a UK Act of Parliament reforming and modernising the courts system. ...
The Loyal Toast is the first toast to be given at a formal gathering by the presiding person. ...
[edit] Industry and commerce Lancashire in the 19th century was a major centre of industrial activity and hence of wealth. Activities included mining and textile production (particularly cotton), though on the coast there was also fishing. Historically, the docks in Preston were an industrial port, though are now disused for commercial purposes. Lancashire was historically the location of the Mersey Ports (now on Merseyside) while Barrow-in-Furness (now in Cumbria) is famous for shipbuilding. Cotton ready for harvest. ...
Preston is a city and local government district in Lancashire, England and is located on the River Ribble. ...
Barrow-in-Furness is a town in Cumbria, England. ...
Men from Francisco de Orellanas expedition building a small brigantine, the San Pedro, to be used in the search for food Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. ...
Today Lancashire is home to firms such as BAE Systems (which has four factories in Lancashire including Warton Aerodrome and BAE Samlesbury, major centres of production for the Eurofighter Typhoon and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter), Heinz, TVR cars, Leyland Trucks and Marconi telecoms. BAE Systems plc is the worlds fourth largest defence contractor,[3] the largest in Europe and a commercial aerospace manufacturer. ...
Warton Aerodrome (IATA: N/A, ICAO: EGNO) is located near to Warton village on the Fylde peninsula in Lancashire, England. ...
BAE Samlesbury is a BAE Systems aerospace facility on the outskirts of Blackburn, Lancashire, England. ...
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TVR 280i TVR S series 1986 TVR 280i Coupe 1984 TVR 350i 1986 TVR Chimaera TVR Cerbera TVR Sagaris, one of the many TVR cars manufactured in Blackpool Two TVRs at the Northampton and Lamport Railway during a Car show held at the railway TVR No. ...
Leyland is a town in the borough of South Ribble, Lancashire, United Kingdom, approximately 6 miles south of Preston. ...
The Marconi Corporation plc is a radio, telecommunication, and internet equipment manufacturing company, formerly known as The General Electric Company (GEC) and Marconi plc. ...
[edit] Economic output This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling. | Year | Regional Gross Value Added[29] | Agriculture[30] | Industry[31] | Services[32] | | 1995 | 13,789 | 344 | 5,461 | 7,984 | | 2000 | 16,584 | 259 | 6,097 | 10,229 | | 2003 | 19,206 | 294 | 6,352 | 12,560 |
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