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Mar 21, 2024 · 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.
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Geology, landscape, and ecology. Topography of Lancashire. The three main rivers in Lancashire are the Ribble, Wyre and Lune, which all drain west to the Irish Sea. The Wyre rises in Bowland and is entirely within Lancashire, while the Ribble and Lune rise in North Yorkshire and Cumbria respectively.
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The geology of Lancashire in northwest England consists in the main of Carboniferous age rocks but with Triassic sandstones and mudstones at or near the surface of the lowlands bordering the Irish Sea though these are largely obscured by Quaternary deposits.
Lancaster. Photo: Antiquary, CC BY 4.0. The city of Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire in Northwest England, named for the Roman camp on the River Lune. Burnley. Photo: Childzy, CC BY 3.0. Burnley is a town in Lancashire, 30 miles north of Manchester. Accrington. Photo: Benkid77, CC BY-SA 3.0. Accrington is a town in East Lancashire.
Lancashire , Administrative (pop. 2001: 1,134,976), historic, and geographic county, northwestern England. The administrative county comprises 12 districts. In the early Middle Ages it was a province of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. The region included the ancestral lands of the house of Lancaster.
May 11, 2018 · Lancashire. Isolated by dense forests and scarcely marked by the Romans, this north-western area of England remained remote and desolate even at Domesday ; the coastline of dunes, marshes, and mosses had discouraged intensive settlement from across the Irish Sea , although combined Norse/Anglian place-names still persist.
Lancaster ( / ˈlæŋkəstər /, / ˈlænkæs -/) [2] is a city [3] in Lancashire, England and the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of City of Lancaster district. The city is on the River Lune directly inland from Morecambe Bay.