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Lancashire (/ˈlæŋkəʃər/ LAN-kə-shər, /-ʃɪər/ -sheer; abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in North West England. Lancashire is a historic, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county and the county boundaries differ between these different forms. Its county town is Lancaster. The non-metropolitan county was created by the Local Government Act 1972 and is administered by the Lancashire County Council and twelve district councils. Its administrative centre is Preston. The ceremonial county has a population of 1,449,300 and an area of 1,189 square miles (3,080 km2).
The historic County Palatine of Lancashire included the large cities of Manchester and Liverpool as well as the Furness and Cartmel peninsulas in the Lake District, and had an area of 1,909 square miles (4,940 km2). Many of these places still identify strongly with the county, particularly in areas of Greater Manchester (such as Oldham and Bury) where Lancashire is still used as part of the postal address. The historic county was subject to a significant boundary reform in 1974 which created the current ceremonial county and removed Liverpool and Manchester, and most of their surrounding conurbations, to form the metropolitan and ceremonial counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester. The detached northern part of Lancashire in the Lake District, including the Furness Peninsula and Cartmel, was merged with Cumberland and Westmorland to form Cumbria. Lancashire lost 709 square miles of land to other counties – about two fifths of its original area – although it did gain some land from the West Riding of Yorkshire. (Full article...)
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Gillows of Lancaster and London, also known as Gillow & Co., was an English furniture making firm based in Lancaster, Lancashire, and in London. It was founded around in Lancaster in about 1730 by Robert Gillow (1704–1772).
Gillows was owned by the family until 1814 when it was taken over by Redmayne, Whiteside, and Ferguson; they continued to use the Gillow name. Gillows furniture was a byword for quality, and other designers used Gillows to manufacture their furniture. Gillows furniture is referred to by Jane Austen, Thackeray and the first Lord Lytton, and in one of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas. In 1903 Gillows merged with Warings of Liverpool to become Waring and Gillow and although the furniture remained of a high quality it was not as prestigious. (Full article...)Topics
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Eccles cake and Lancashire cheese at a restaurant (from Lancashire cheese)
The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower of Lancashire, and a common symbol for the county. (from History of Lancashire)
Map of mid-Lancashire, c. 400. (from History of Lancashire)
Parsonage Colliery in 1980 (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Lancashire, nicknamed "The Red Rose County" within England, showing ancient extent (from History of Lancashire)
Spoil heaps or "rucks" at Wharton Hall Colliery, Little Hulton (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Worsley Delph, the entrance to the Duke of Bridgewater's underground mines (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Southwest Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)
Lancashire hotpot (from Lancashire hotpot)
British Coalfields (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Astley Green Colliery, offices and headgear (from Lancashire Coalfield)
The historic county palatine boundaries in red and the ceremonial county in green (from History of Lancashire)
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)
Ribble estuarine alluvium (from Geology of Lancashire)
Monument to James Anderton OBE, inventor of the power shearer, sited in St.Helens (from Lancashire Coalfield)
North Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)
Did you know ...
- ... that the parish churches of Ormskirk (pictured), Purton and Wanborough are the only churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire?
- ... that in 1920–21, Burnley were crowned champions of English football for the first time?
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