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4 days ago · Lancashire, administrative, geographic, and historical county in northwestern England. It is bounded to the north by Cumberland and Westmorland (in the present administrative county of Cumbria ), to the east by Yorkshire, to the south by Cheshire, and to the west by the Irish Sea. Preston is the county seat. Map of England showing Yorkshire ...
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1 day ago · 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.
2 days ago · Liverpool, city and seaport, northwestern England, forming the nucleus of the metropolitan county of Merseyside in the historic county of Lancashire.The city proper, which is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, forms an irregular crescent along the north shore of the Mersey estuary a few miles from the Irish Sea.
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- Liverpool, a city and seaport in northwestern England, forms an irregular crescent along the north shore of the Mersey estuary a few miles from the...
- The location that became the city of Liverpool was granted a charter for a planned new town by King John of England in 1207.
- In 1830 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first in England to link two major cities, was opened. A rail network providing easy and cheap ac...
- All four of the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—were born and started their musical careers in Liverpool.
5 days ago · A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3.Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1907. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. ...
3 days ago · Young Richard Chorley was brought up in the religion and politics of his forefathers. After the Revolution he was arrested as a partisan of James II, (fn. 123) and in the rising of 1715 he and his son Charles joined the Jacobites at Preston and were there taken prisoners on 13 November.
2 days ago · Blackburn (/ ˈ b l æ k b ɜːr n / ⓘ) is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley , 8 mi (13 km) east of Preston and 21 mi (34 km) north-northwest of Manchester .
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The township measures 3,725½ acres, (fn. 1) and in 1901 had a population of 6,865. Three principal roads go through the township from south to north. Of these the central one passes Worden and winding through the village of Leyland by the church goes north-east and north to Farington and Preston.
