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• Accrington, Adlington, Anglezarke

Map sources for Accrington at grid reference SD7528 Arms of Accrington Borough Council Accrington, in the County of Lancashire, is a small former mill town in the industrial north-west of England. ... Adlington is a town in Lancashire, England near the West Pennine Moors, and the larger town of Chorley. ... Anglezarke is an area of oustanding national beauty in Lancashire that is dominated by a series of reservoirs that supply water to Manchester and Liverpool. ...

B

• Bacup, Bamber Bridge, Barnoldswick*, Bickerstaffe, Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Burscough, Brindle

Bacup is crap I live there you dont. ... Bamber Bridge is a town to the south of Preston, Lancashire, England. ... Barnoldswick (colloquially known as Barlick) is a Yorkshire town with an approximate population of 12,000. ... Bickerstaffe is a village and civil parish in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. ... This article is about Blackburn in Lancashire, England. ... Blackpool is a seaside town in northwestern England. ... Location within the British Isles Burnley is a market town in the east of Lancashire in north-west England with a population of around 74,000. ... Location within the British Isles Burscough is a small town in England, situated in West Lancashire, to the North of Ormskirk and Skelmersdale. ... Brindle is a coat coloring in animals, particularly dogs, cats, and horses: tawny or grayish with streaks or spots of a darker color. ...

C

• Carnforth, Chipping, Chorley, Clayton-le-Moors, Cleveleys, Clitheroe, Colne

Carnforth is a small town in the north of Lancashire, England, situated at the north-east end of Morecambe Bay, by the River Keer. ... Chipping is a prefix used in a number of place names in England, probably derived from ceapen, an Old English word meaning market, though the meaning may alternatively come from (or via) the Medieval English word chepynge with a more specific meaning of long market square. Examples include: Chipping Campden... Chorleys Coat of Arms Chorley is a market town in Lancashire, Great Britain, south of Preston and at the foot of the West Pennine Moors. ... Clayton-le-Moors is a town near Blackburn in Lancashire two miles north of Accrington. ... Map sources for Cleveleys at grid reference SD317433 Cleveleys (with its neighbouring town of Thornton, collectively known as Thornton-Cleveleys) is a town on the Fylde Coast of Lancashire, England, about 4 miles north of Blackpool and 2 miles south of Fleetwood. ... Map sources for Clitheroe at grid reference SD745415 Arms of Clitheroe Town Council Clitheroe is a small town in Lancashire, England. ... Colne is a town (population approx 20,000), in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England, close to the Yorkshire border. ...

D

• Dalton, Darwen , Dolphinholme

Location within the British Isles Arms of the former Darwen Borough Council Darwen (Dwrgwyn) from the Old Welsh dwr and Brythonic gwyn, (Darren in Lancashire dialect) is a small market town of the West Pennine Moors in Lancashire, in the North West region of England. ... Dolphinholme is a village in Lancashire, North West England (53. ...

E

• Earby*

Earby is a Lancashire town near Colne. ...

F

• Fleetwood, Freckleton

Map sources for Fleetwood at grid reference SD333479 Fleetwood is a town in Lancashire, England, lying at the northern end of the Fylde peninsula. ... Freckleton is a small town on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, England, to the south of Kirkham and east of the genteel seaside resorts of LythamSt Annes. ...

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• Galgate, Garstang, Gisburn*, Goosnargh, Great Harwood

Galgate is a small village south of Lancaster University, about half a mile south of Lancaster itself in the County of Lancashire in England. ... Garstang is a small town in the North of England situated on the A6 between Lancaster and Preston, a short distance from Knott End-on-Sea and Myerscough College. ... Goosnargh Goosnargh is a Betelgeusian word used in Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book, So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish. ... Location within the British Isles Great Harwood is an urban district in the Hyndburn parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 4 1/2 miles north east of Blackburn. ...

H

• Haslingden, Heapey, Hesketh Bank, Heysham, Hoghton, Holmeswood

Map sources for Haslingden at grid reference SD785231 Haslingden is a unique small town, in the early 20th century an independent borough, in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire and is now part of the Borough of Rossendale. ... Hesketh Bank is a small agricultural village in Lancashire. ... Stone graves overlooking Morecambe Bay, with the mountains of the Lake District in the distance Heysham (pronounced hee-sham) is a small, coastal village near Lancaster in the county of Lancashire in England. ... Holmeswood is a small agricultural village in West Lancashire, in the north-west of England. ...

K

• Kirkham, Knott End-on-sea

Map sources for Kirkham, Lancashire at grid reference SD426321 Kirkham, or Kirkam-in-Amounderness is a town in Fylde area of Lancashire, England, between Blackpool and Preston. ...

L

• Lancaster, Lathom, Leyland, Longridge, Lytham

A view of Lancaster showing the Lune, the Millennium Bridge and the Ashton Memorial Lancaster (2001 census population 45,952: source ONS) is a city in Lancashire, in the north-west of England, UK. It is a commercial, cultural and educational centre. ... Map sources for Lathom at grid reference SD458107 Lathom is a village in Lancashire, England about 5 km northeast of Ormskirk. ... Map sources for Leyland at grid reference SD544214 Leyland is a town in the borough of South Ribble, Lancashire, United Kingdom, approximately 6 miles south of Preston. ... Longridge is a town in Lancashire, England, on a ridge above the River Ribble. ... Lytham St Annes is a town in the Fylde district of Lancashire, England. ...

M

• Mawdesley, Morecambe

Location within the British Isles Morecambe is a resort town in the Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. ...

N

• Nelson

Nelson is a town in Lancashire in north-west of England with a population of around 30,000. ...

O

• Ormskirk, Oswaldtwistle

Map sources for Ormskirk at grid reference SD415085 Ormskirk is a small market town in England, with a population of approximately 23,500 (2005 est. ... Rhyddings Park Oswaldtwistle is a town on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire, 3 m. ...

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• Padiham, Parbold, Pendle, Poulton-le-Fylde, Preston

Location within the British Isles Padiham is a small town (population of 8,998 according to the 2001 census), on the River Calder amid the hills of north-east Lancashire, England, situated approximately three miles to the west of Burnley and south of Pendle Hill. ... Parbold is a small village in the county of Lancashire. ... Pendle is a district borough of Lancashire, England, on the North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire borders. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Preston is a city and local government district in North West England. ...

R

• Rawtenstall, Ribchester, Rufford

Map sources for Rawtenstall at grid reference SD806228 Rawtenstall is a town and district of industrial origin located at the centre of the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. ... Map sources for Ribchester at grid reference SD649353 Ribchester is a village in Lancashire, England near the towns of Blackburn and Preston. ... Rufford is a village in West Lancashire (Grid reference SD458155). ...

S

• Silverdale, Skelmersdale, Slaidburn*, St Annes

Silverdale is a small village in Lancashire, near to the border with Cumbria. ... Location within the British Isles Skelmersdale is a new town, by far the largest town in the district of West Lancashire. ... Slaidburn lies near the head of the River Hodder, in the Forest of Bowland AONB. Slaidburn parish includes Newton in Bowland, Dunsop Bridge and Easington, and lies in the ancient West Riding of Yorkshire, although the Local Government Act 1972 theoretically made the inhabitants Lancastrian, administered by Lancashire County Council... Map sources for Lytham St Annes at grid reference SD342278 Lytham St Annes is a town in the Fylde district of Lancashire, England. ...

T

• Thornton, Trawden, Tyldesley

Map sources for Thornton at grid reference SD339421 Thornton (with its neighbouring town of Cleveleys, together known as Thornton-Cleveleys) is a town on the Fylde coast of Lancashire, England, about 4 miles north of Blackpool and 2 miles south of Fleetwood. ... Trawden is a medium sized but rapidly expanding village in Lancashire, England, situated at the foot of Boulsworth hill. ... Tyldesley miners outside the Miners Hall during the UK General Strike of 1926 Tyldesley (pronounced tilds-lee is a town in Greater Manchester, north-west England. ...

U

• Upholland

Upholland is a civil parish and small town in Lancashire, England, situated approximately three miles east of Skelmersdale and two miles west of Orrell. ...

W

• Wennington, Whalley, White Coppice

(*) denotes settlements within the traditional borders of the West Riding of Yorkshire but which are now part of the post-1974 county of Lancashire. Wennington, Lancashire, United Kingdom is a village on the B6480, near the River Wenning and the Yorkshire border. ... Location within the British Isles Whalley is a small town in the Ribble Valley on the banks of the River Calder in Lancashire. ... The West Riding as an administrative county prior to its abolition in 1974. ...

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Some Lancashire villages