Place:Lancashire, England

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NameLancashire
Alt namesLANsource: Curious Fox: UK Counties and Shires [online] (2002). accessed 16 Dec 2002
Lancastersource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 500
Lancssource: Wikipedia
Lancastershiresource: misspelling
TypeHistoric county, Administrative county, Modern county
Coordinates53.7°N 2.667°W
Located inEngland
See alsoWestmorland, EnglandChild
Greater Manchester, EnglandChild
Merseyside, EnglandChild
Contained Places
Unknown
Chew Moor
Borough
Barrow
Bolton
Chorley
Cemetery
Hunter St. Cemetery Liverpool
Lumb
District
Anfield
Patricroft
Platt-Bridge ( 1599 - )
Urmston
Whiston (district)
District council
Fylde
Inhabited place
Abbey Village
Abbeystead
Abram
Accrington
Acre
Adlington
Affetside
Ainsdale
Ainsworth
Aldcliffe
Aldingham
Altham
Appley Bridge
Arkholme
Ashton-in-Makerfield
Ashton-on-Ribble
Ashton-under-Lyne
Aspull
Astley Bridge
Atherton
Audenshaw
Aughton Park
Aughton
Bacup
Balderstone
Bamber-Bridge
Bamford
Banks
Bardsea
Barnoldswick
Barrow Nook
Barrowford
Barton
Barton-upon-Irwell
Baxenden
Becconsall
Belmont
Belthorn
Bickerstaffe
Billinge ( - 1974 )
Birch (near Manchester)
Birkdale
Blackburn ( 300 - )
Blacko
Blackpool
Blackrod
Bolton-Le-Sands
Bolton-by-Bowland
Borwick
Bowgreave
Bracewell
Bradshaw
Bretherton
Brierfield
Brindle
Brinscall
Broughton
Broughton-in-Furness
Burnage
Burnley ( 1500 - )
Burscough Bridge
Burscough
Burtonwood ( - 1974 )
Bury ( - 1974 )
Cadishead ( - 1974 )
Calderbrook
Cantsfield
Carnforth
Cartmel Fell
Cartmel
Castleton
Catforth
Caton
Catterall
Chadderton ( - 1974 )
Chapeltown
Charnock Richard
Chipping
Church
Churchtown
Claughton
Clayton-le-Moors
Clayton-le-Woods
Cleveleys
Clifton
Clitheroe
Clowbridge
Cockerham
Colne
Colton
Common Edge
Coniston
Coppull
Copster Green
Cottam
Cravens
Croft ( - 1974 )
Cronton ( - 1974 )
Crosby
Croston
Crwashawbooth
Dalton
Dalton-in-Furness
Darwen
Deane
Delph ( - 1974 )
Dendron
Denshaw ( - 1974 )
Denton
Didsbury
Digmoor
Downham
Downholland Cross
Droylsden
Dryford
Dunnockshaw
Earby
Earcroft
Earlestown ( - 1974 )
Eccles ( - 1974 )
Eccleston
Edenfield
Edge Hill
Edgworth
Ellel
Elswick
Euxton
Everton
Failsworth ( - 1974 )
Farington
Farleton
Farnworth (near Bolton)
Fazakerley
Feniscowles
Finsthwaite
Fleetwood
Flixton
Formby
Forton
Freckleton
Friezland ( - 1974 )
Fulwood
Galgate
Garstang
Garston
Gateacre
Gisburn
Glasson Dock
Golborne
Goosnargh
Grange-over-Sands
Great Altcar
Great Crosby
Great Eccleston
Great Harwood
Great Marton
Great Mitton
Great Plumpton
Greenhalgh
Greenmount
Greenodd ( - 1974 )
Gressingham
Grimeford Village
Grimsargh
Grindleton
Haigh
Haighton Green
Hale
Halewood ( - 1974 )
Halsall
Halton
Hambleton
Hapton
Harwood
Haskayne
Haslingden Grane
Haslingden
Haverthwaite
Hawkshead ( - 1974 )
Hawkstone
Haydock ( - 1974 )
Helmshore
Hesketh Bank
Heskin Green
Heysham
Heywood
Higham
Higher Ballam
Higher Penwortham
Higher Walton
Hindley
Hoddlesden
Hoghton
Holme Chapel
Holmeswood
Hornby
Horwich
Hough Green ( - 1974 )
Huncoat
Hundred End
Hurlston Green
Hurlston
Hutton
Huyton ( - 1974 )
Ince-in-Makerfield
Inskip
Ireby
Ireleth
Irlam ( - 1974 )
Kearsley
Kelbrook
Kenyon
Kirkby ( - 1974 )
Kirkham
Knott End-on-Sea
Knotty Ash
Knowsley ( - 1974 )
Lancaster
Langho
Lathom
Lea Town
Leck
Lees ( - 1974 )
Leigh
Leyland
Limbrick
Lindale
Litherland
Little Crosby
Little Eccleston
Little Hulton ( - 1974 )
Little Lever
Little Marton
Little Plumpton
Little Singleton
Littleborough
Liverpool ( - 1974 )
Longridge
Longton
Lostock Hall
Love Clough
Lower Darwen
Lower Penwortham
Lower Thurnham
Lowton
Lunt
Lydiate
Lytham Saint Anne's
Lytham St Annes
Maghull
Manchester ( - 1974 )
Mawdesley
Melling
Mellor Brook
Mellor
Mere Brow
Mereclough
Middleton
Midge Hall
Milnrow
Moorside ( - 1974 )
Morecambe
Moss Side
Mossley Hill
Much Hoole
Mythop
Nelson
Nether Burrow
Nether Kellet
Netherton
New Hey
New Lane
New Longton
Newburgh
Newby Bridge
Newsham
Newsholme
Newton
Newton-in-Bowland ( 1974 - )
Newton-le-Willows ( - 1974 )
Oakenshaw
Oldham ( - 1974 )
Ormskirk
Orrell
Osbaldeston
Oswaldtwistle
Over Burrow
Overton
Padiham
Parbold
Paythorne
Pemberton
Pendlebury ( - 1974 )
Pendleton
Penketh ( - 1974 )
Pennington (near Leigh)
Penwortham
Pinfold
Pleasington
Poulton-le-Fylde
Preesall
Prescot ( - 1974 )
Preston ( 1179 - )
Prestwich
Priest Hutton
Radcliffe
Rainford ( - 1974 )
Rainhill ( - 1974 )
Rampside
Ramsbottom
Rawtenstall
Read
Reddish
Rhodes
Ribbleton
Ribby
Ribchester
Rishton
Rivington
Roby Mill
Roby ( - 1974 )
Rochdale ( - 1974 )
Rockcliffe
Roose
Royton ( - 1974 )
Rufford
Rusland
Ryal Fold
Saint Anne's
Saint Michael's on Wyre
Salesbury
Salford ( - 1974 )
Salwick
Samlesbury Bottoms
Samlesbury
Scarisbrick
Scarth Hill
Seaforth
Shaw ( - 1974 )
Shevington
Shirdley Hill
Silverdale
Simonstone
Singleton
Skelmersdale
Slyne
Smallbridge
Sollom
Southport
Speke
St Helens ( - 1974 )
Stacksteads
Staining
Stalmine
Standish
Staveley
Stockport ( - 1974 )
Stonyhurst
Stretford
Stubbins
Summerseat
Swarthmoor
Swinton ( - 1974 )
Tarleton
Tarlscough
Tatham
Thornton
Tockholes
Torver ( - 1974 )
Tottington
Trawden
Treales
Tunstall
Turton Bottoms
Tyldesley
Ulverston
Up Holland
Upper Thurnham
Walk Mill
Wallmer Bridge
Walmersley
Walton
Walton-le-Dale
Warton
Water
Waterloo
Wavertree
Weeton
Wennington
Wesham
West Derby
Westby
Westhead
Westhoughton
Westleigh
Whalley
Wharles
Wheelton
Whiston ( - 1974 )
Whitefield
Whittington
Whittle-le-Woods
Whitworth
Wigan ( 1246 - 1974 )
Wilpshire
Withnell
Woodplumpton
Woolton
Worsley ( - 1974 )
Worsthorne
Wrea Green
Wrightington Bar
Yealand Conyers
Yealand Redmayne
Yealand Storrs
Parish
Bolton-le-Moors
Lund
Suburb
Davyhulme
Middleton (near Manchester)
Newton (near Manchester)
Pendleton (near Salford)
Unknown
Aighton
Aintree
Alkincoats
Alkrington
Allerton
Allithwaite
Alston
Altcar
Anderton
Angerton
Anglezarke
Arbury
Ardwick
Ashton-with-Stodday
Ashworth
Askham-in-Furness
Astley
Aughton (near Ormskirk)
Bailey
Balderston
Bardsley
Bare
Barley-with-Whitley-Booth
Barnacre-with-Bonds
Bedford
Benchill
Besses o'th' Barn
Beswick
Bilsborrow
Birch (near Middleton)
Birtenshaw
Birtle
Bispham
Blackley
Blawith
Bleasdale
Blue Pits
Blundellsands
Bold
Bootle
Bootle-cum-Linacre
Bradford
Brathay
Breightmet
Briercliffe
Brockholes
Broughton (near Salford)
Browsholme
Bryning-with-Kellamergh
Bulk
Burrow-with-Burrow
Butterworth
Cabus
Caldervale
Castlefield
Chaigley
Charnock-Heath
Chatburn
Cheetham
Cherry Tree
Childwall
Chorlton
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Chorlton-upon-Medlock
Chowbent
Church Coniston
Claife
Claughton (near Hornby)
Clayton
Clayton-Green
Clayton-le-Dale
Cleveley
Clifton-with-Salwick
Cliviger
Cloughfold
Cockersand Abbey
Coldhurst
Collyhurst
Copp
Cowpe-Lenches Newhallhey and Hall-Carr
Crawford
Crawshaw-Booth
Crompton
Croxteth Park
Crumpsall
Cuerdale
Cuerden
Cuerdley
Culcheth
Dalton (near Wigan)
Darcy-Lever
Daubhill
Dearnley
Dilworth
Dinkley
Ditton
Dixon-Green
Douglas
Downhall-Green
Downholland
Dunkenhalgh
Dunnerdale
Dutton
Duxbury
East Broughton
East Crompton
Eccleshill
Eccleston (near Prescot)
Edgeworth
Egerton
Egton-with-Newland
Ellenbrook
Elston
Elton
Enfield
Entwistle
Fairbottom
Fairfield (near Liverpool)
Fairfield (near Manchester)
Fairhaven
Fallowfield
Farnworth (near Prescot)
Fence-in-Pendle
Feniscliffe
Fernyhalgh
Fishwick
Flookburgh
Foggathorpe
Folds
Foulridge
Gannow
Glasson
Glodwick
Goldshaw Booth
Goodmanham
Goodshaw
Goose Green
Gorton
Grange
Grassendale
Great & Little Carleton
Great Heaton
Great Lever
Great Sankey
Great Singleton
Greenacres
Greenacres-Moor
Greenalgh-with-Thistleton
Greenheys
Gribthorpe
Habergham-All Saints
Habergham-Eaves
Haggate
Haighton
Hall-fold
Halliwell
Hamer
Hardhorn-with-Newton
Hardshaw
Harpurhay
Hartshaw
Hartshead
Hatherall
Haughton
Haulgh
Hawkshaw Lane
Healey
Heap
Heapey
Heapley
Heaton (near Bolton)
Heaton (near Lancaster)
Heaton Moor
Heaton-Mersey
Heaton-Norris
Henheads
Heskin
Heyhouses
Heyside
Higher Booths
Hindsford
Holcombe
Holden
Holleth
Hollinfare
Hollinwood
Holme
Hooley-Hill
Hope
Hopwood
Houghton
Howick
Hulme
Hundersfield
Hurst
Hurst-Green
Hurstwood
Ightenhill-Park
Ince-Blundell
Inglewhite
Ingol
Kirkby-Ireleth
Kirkdale
Kirkland
Kirkmanshulme
Knowle Green
Knuzden
Lamberhead Green
Lanehead
Layton-with-Warbreck
Leagram
Leesfield
Levenshulme
Leverbridge
Lindeth
Little Bowland
Little Eccleston with Larbreck
Little Harwood
Little Heaton
Little Sankey
Little Woolton
Littledale
Livesey
Longsight
Longworth
Lostock
Low Wray
Lower Booths
Lower Holker
Lowick
Mansriggs
Marsden
Marton
Mearley
Melling (near Hornby)
Melling (near Maghull)
Middle Hulton
Middleton (near Lancaster)
Middleton (near Warrington)
Miles-Platting
Mitton-Henthorn and Coldcotes
Monton Green
Mossley
Moston
Mount Pleasant
Much Woolton
Musbury
Myerscough
Nateby
Nether Wyersdale
New Bury
New Horwich
Newbold
Newchurch
Newchurch-in-Pendle
Newchurch-in-Rossendale
Norbreck
Norris Bank
North Meols
Old Laund Booth
Old Trafford
Openshaw
Ordsall-in-Salford
Orford
Orrell and Ford
Osmotherley
Out Rawcliffe
Outwood
Over Darwen
Over Hulton
Over Kellet
Over Wyersdale
Oxcliffe
Paddington
Padgate
Park-Lane
Parr
Pendle
Pennington (near Ulverston)
Pickup-bank
Pilkington
Pilling
Pilsworth
Pits o'th' Moor
Poulton-le-Sands
Poulton-with-Fearnhead
Poulton-with-Fearnhed
Preesall-with-Hackensall
Prestolee
Quernmoor
Rainsough
Ramsgrave
Red Lumb
Redbank
Reedley-Hallows Filley-Close and New-Laund-B
Ribby-with-Wrea
Ringley
Risley
Rixton-with-Glazebrook
Roaches
Roeburndale
Roseacre
Rossendale
Rough-Lee-Booth
Roughtown
Rumworth
Rusholme
Sabden
Satterthwaite
Sawrey
Scorton
Scotforth
Seathwaite
Sefton
Sharples
Shireshead
Shuttleworth
Simonswood
Skelwith
Skerton
Slyne-with-Hest
Smithills
Southworth-with-Croft
Sowerby
Spotland
St. Anne's-on-the-Sea
St. Michael-on-Wyre
Stalybridge
Standish-with-Langtree
Stanley
Stede
Stoneycroft
Subberthwaite
Sutton
Tarbock
Tarnacre
Tatham-Fell
Tewitfield
Thornham
Thornley-with-Wheatley
Thornton (near Fleetwood)
Thornton (near Liverpool)
Thurnham
Todmorden
Tonge (near Bolton)
Tonge (near Middleton)
Tonge Fold
Torrisholme
Tottington-Higher-End
Tottington-Lower-End
Tottlebank
Towneley
Treals
Tunstead
Turton
Twiston
Ulnes-Walton
Unsworth
Upper Holker
Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre
Urswick
Walkden-Moor
Walmsley
Walney
Walsden
Walshaw
Walton Breck
Wardle
Wardleworth
Warrington
Water Grove
Waterfoot
Waterhead
Weaste
Welsh Whittle
Wernith
Westby-with-Plumpton
Wheatley
Wheatley-Carr
Whitechapel
Whitewell
Whittingham
Widnes
Willitoft
Willows
Windle
Winmarleigh
Winstanley
Winton
Winwick
Wiswall
Withington
Witton
Woodland and Heathwaite
Woolston-with-Martinscroft
Worston
Worthington
Wray-with-Botton
Wrayton
Wrightington
Wuerdle-with-Wardle
Yate and Pickup-Bank
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Lancashire ( or, less commonly) is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston. Lancashire is sometimes referred to by the abbreviation Lancs, as originally used by the Royal Mail. The population of the ceremonial county is 1,449,300. People from the county are known as Lancastrians.

The history of Lancashire is thought to have begun with its founding in the 12th century. In the Domesday Book (1086), some of its lands had been treated as part of Yorkshire. The land that lay Inter Ripam et Mersam, "between the Ribble and Mersey", formed part of the returns for Cheshire. Once its initial boundaries were established, it bordered Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire and Cheshire.

Lancashire emerged during the Industrial Revolution as a major commercial and industrial region. The county encompassed several hundred mill towns and collieries. By the 1830s, approximately 85% of all cotton manufactured worldwide was processed in Lancashire. Preston, Accrington, Blackburn, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham, Chorley, Darwen, Nelson, Colne, Burnley and Wigan were major cotton mill towns during this time. Blackpool was a major centre for tourism for the inhabitants of Lancashire's mill towns, particularly during wakes week.

The county was subject to a significant boundary reform in 1974, which removed Liverpool and Manchester with most of their surrounding conurbations to form part of the metropolitan counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester respectively. At this time, the detached northern part of Lancashire in the Lake District, including the Furness Peninsula and Cartmel, was made part of Cumbria. Today the county borders Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and North and West Yorkshire. The Duchy of Lancaster exercises the right of the Crown in the area known as the County Palatine of Lancaster, which includes the counties of Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

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History

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Early history

The county was established in 1182[1] and later than many other counties. During Roman times the area was considered part of the Brigantes tribal area and was in the military zone of Roman Britain. The towns of Manchester, Lancaster, Ribchester, Burrow, Elslack and Castleshaw were all originally Roman forts. In the centuries immediately following the Roman withdrawal in 410AD the northern parts, at least, of the county probably formed part of the Brythonic kingdom of Rheged, a successor entity of the Brigantes tribe of northern Britain. During the mid 8th Century, this area was incorporated into the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, which itself became a part of England in the 10th Century. In the Domesday Book, its lands between the Ribble and the Mersey were known as "Inter Ripam et Mersam" and were included in the returns for Cheshire. Although some historians have taken this to mean that south Lancashire was, at that time, part of Cheshire,[2] neither can it be said clearly to have been part of Cheshire. It is also claimed that the territory to the north formed, at that time, part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.[3] It bordered on Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire, and Cheshire. The county was divided into the six hundreds of Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland, Lonsdale, Salford and West Derby. Lonsdale was further partitioned into Lonsdale North, which was the detached part north of "the sands" of Morecambe Bay (including both Furness and Cartmel), and Lonsdale South.

Modern history

Lancashire is now much smaller than its historical extent, following a major reform of local government. In 1889 an administrative county of Lancashire was created, covering the historical county except for county boroughs such as Blackburn, Burnley, Barrow-in-Furness, Preston, Wigan, Liverpool, Manchester. The area covered by the Lord-Lieutenant (termed now a ceremonial county) continued to cover the entirety of the administrative county along with the county boroughs, and thus was expanded slightly whenever boroughs annexed areas in other neighbouring counties. Examples of this include Wythenshawe (an area of Manchester south of the River Mersey and historically in Cheshire), and southern Warrington. This area also did not cover the western part of Todmorden, where the ancient border between Lancashire and Yorkshire runs through the middle of the town.

During the 20th century the county became increasingly urbanised, particularly the southern part. To the existing county boroughs of Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Bolton, Bootle, Burnley, Bury, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Salford, St Helens and Wigan were added Blackpool (1904), Southport (1905), and Warrington (1900). The county boroughs also had many boundary extensions. The borders around the Manchester area were particularly complicated, with narrow protrusions of the administrative county between the county boroughs – Lees urban district formed a detached part of the administrative county, between Oldham county borough and the West Riding of Yorkshire.

By the census of 1971 the population of Lancashire (including all its associated county boroughs) had reached 5,129,416, making it then the most populous geographic county in the UK. The administrative county of Lancashire was also the most populous of its type outside of London, with a population of 2,280,359 in 1961. On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the administrative county of Lancashire was abolished, as were the county boroughs. The urbanised southern part largely became part of two new metropolitan counties. The south-western part became part of Merseyside, the south-eastern part was incorporated into Greater Manchester. The new county of Cumbria took the Furness exclave.[1]

The boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens and Sefton were removed entirely from Lancashire. In Greater Manchester the successor boroughs were Bury, Bolton, Manchester, Oldham (part), Rochdale, Salford, Tameside (part), Trafford (part) and Wigan. Warrington and Widnes, south of the new Merseyside/Greater Manchester border, rather than become part of Greater Manchester or Merseyside were instead made part of the new non-metropolitan county of Cheshire. The urban districts of Barnoldswick and Earby, the Bowland Rural District and the parishes of Bracewell and Brogden and Salterforth from the Skipton Rural District from the West Riding of Yorkshire became part of the new Lancashire.[4] One parish, Simonswood, was transferred from the borough of Knowsley in Merseyside to the district of West Lancashire in 1994. In 1998 the county borough system re-appeared in all but name, when Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen became independent unitary authority areas. The Wars of the Roses tradition continued with Lancaster using as its symbol the red rose and York the white. Pressure groups, including Friends of Real Lancashire and the Association of British Counties advocate the use of the historical boundaries of Lancashire for ceremonial and cultural purposes.

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