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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.
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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Lytham Pier, a pleasure and working pier, was opened in the seaside town of Lytham, Lancashire, England in 1865, in the face of reservations from local residents. The pier underwent several renovations during the 1890s and early 1900s before being badly damaged by a storm in 1903, during which two barges collided with the structure and split it in two. A fire in 1928 resulted in extensive damage to the pavilion, which was not rebuilt, although the pier itself was reopened several months later. Following a period of decline it was closed to the public shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. The pier was demolished in 1960 despite the protests of thousands of local residents.
Plans to rebuild the pier were discussed by local councillors in 2007, with the Lytham St Annes Civic Society opposed to any such plan and no further progress has been made since that initial proposal. (Full article...)Topics
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- Image 1Eccles cake and Lancashire cheese at a restaurant (from Lancashire cheese)
- Image 3The historic county palatine boundaries in red and the ceremonial county in green (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 4Astley Green Colliery, offices and headgear (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 5Southwest Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 6Worsley Delph, the entrance to the Duke of Bridgewater's underground mines (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 7Ribble estuarine alluvium (from Geology of Lancashire)
- Image 8North Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 9British Coalfields (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 10Lancashire, nicknamed "The Red Rose County" within England, showing ancient extent (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 11Monument to James Anderton OBE, inventor of the power shearer, sited in St.Helens (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 12Parsonage Colliery in 1980 (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 13Spoil heaps or "rucks" at Wharton Hall Colliery, Little Hulton (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 14Map of mid-Lancashire, c. 400. (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 15A Chorley cake (left) and an Eccles cake (right) (from Chorley cake)
- Image 16The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower of Lancashire, and a common symbol for the county. (from History of Lancashire)
Did you know ...
- ... that the flushwork decorating parts of St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling (pictured), Lancashire, is in two colours of sandstone rather than the more usual materials of flint and stone?
- ... 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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