Portal:Lancashire
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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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Blackburn Olympic F.C., Pendle witches, Samlesbury witches
List of Nelson F.C. seasons, Listed buildings in Rivington
Preston railway station, River Irwell, Rivington, Stonyhurst College, Turf Moor, William SudellGeneral images -
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Ribble estuarine alluvium (from Geology of Lancashire) -
Eccles cake and Lancashire cheese at a restaurant (from Lancashire cheese) -
Thehistoric county palatine boundaries in red and the ceremonial county in green (from History of Lancashire) -
Spoil heaps or "rucks" at Wharton Hall Colliery, Little Hulton (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
Monument to James Anderton OBE, inventor of the power shearer, sited in St.Helens (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
Southwest Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire) -
Astley Green Colliery, offices and headgear (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
Worsley Delph, the entrance to the Duke of Bridgewater's underground mines (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
Map of mid-Lancashire, c. 400. (from History of Lancashire) -
Thecounty flower of Lancashire, and a common symbol for the county. (from History of Lancashire) -
British Coalfields (from Lancashire Coalfield) -
John Speed's map of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 1610 (from History of Lancashire) -
A Chorley cake (left) and an Eccles cake (right) (from Chorley cake) -
North Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire) -
Lancashire, nicknamed "The Red Rose County" within England, showing ancient extent (from History of Lancashire) -
Parsonage Colliery in 1980 (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Did you know ...
- ... that Argleton (supposed location pictured) appears on Google Maps as a settlement in West Lancashire, England, even though no such place exists?
- ... 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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