Portal:Lancashire
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Lancashire (/ˈlæŋkəʃər/ LAN-kə-shər, /-ʃɪər/ -sheer; abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The largest settlement is Blackpool, and Preston is the administrative centre.
The county has an area of 3,079 square kilometres (1,189 sq mi) and a population of 1,490,300. After Blackpool (149,070), the largest settlements are Blackburn (124,995) and the city of Preston (94,490); the city of Lancaster has a population of 52,655. For local government purposes, Lancashire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with twelve districts, and two unitary authority areas, Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool. The county historically included northern Greater Manchester and Merseyside, the Furness and Cartmel peninsulas of Cumbria, and some of northern Cheshire, and excluded the eastern part of the Forest of Bowland. (Full article...)
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A Chorley cake (left) and an Eccles cake (right) (from Chorley cake) -
Map of mid-Lancashire, c. 400. (from History of Lancashire) -
The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower of Lancashire, and a common symbol for the county. (from History of Lancashire) -
British Coalfields (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
Spoil heaps or "rucks" at Wharton Hall Colliery, Little Hulton (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
The historic county palatine boundaries in red and the ceremonial county in green (from History of Lancashire) -
Eccles cake and Lancashire cheese at a restaurant (from Lancashire cheese) -
Worsley Delph, the entrance to the Duke of Bridgewater's underground mines (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
Astley Green Colliery, offices and headgear (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
Lancashire, nicknamed "The Red Rose County" within England, showing ancient extent (from History of Lancashire) -
Parsonage Colliery in 1980 (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
Monument to James Anderton OBE, inventor of the power shearer, sited in St.Helens (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
Ribble estuarine alluvium (from Geology of Lancashire) -
John Speed's map of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 1610 (from History of Lancashire) -
North Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire) -
Southwest Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)
Did you know ...
- ... that the parish churches of Ormskirk (pictured), Purton and Wanborough are the only churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire?
- ... that former Burnley chairman Bob Lord described coach Billy Dougall, who worked for the football club for 23 years, as the finest servant a club could have?
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