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*THE 14 ‘DISTRICTS’ OF ‘LANCASHIRE’*
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(/ˈlæŋkəʃər/, /ˈlæŋkəʃɪər/ or, locally, [ˈɫaŋkɪʃə(ɻ)];
*archaically the county palatine of ‘lancaster’*
*abbreviated ‘lancs.’*
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(‘lancashire’ is a ‘non-metropolitan ceremonial county’ in ‘north west england’)
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(the ‘county town’ is ‘lancaster’ although the county’s administrative centre is ‘Preston’)
(the county has a population of 1,449,300 and an area of 1,189 square miles (3,080 km2))
(people from ‘Lancashire’ are known as ‘Lancastrians’)
(the history of ‘Lancashire’ begins with its founding in the 12th century)
(in the Domesday Book of 1086, some of its lands were treated as part of ‘Yorkshire’)
(the land that lay between the ‘Ribble’ and ‘Mersey’, Inter Ripam et Mersam was included in the returns for ‘Cheshire’)
(when its boundaries were established, it bordered ‘Cumberland’, ‘Westmorland’, ‘Yorkshire’, and ‘Cheshire’)
(‘Lancashire’ emerged as a major commercial and industrial region during the ‘Industrial Revolution’)
(‘Liverpool’ and ‘Manchester’ grew into its largest cities, dominating global trade and the birth of modern capitalism)
(the county contained several mill towns and the collieries of the ‘Lancashire Coalfield’)
(by the 1830s, approximately 85% of all cotton manufactured worldwide was processed in ‘Lancashire’)
(‘Accrington’, ‘Blackburn’, ‘Bolton’, ‘Burnley’, ‘Bury’, ‘Chorley’, ‘Colne’, ‘Darwen’, ‘Manchester’, ‘Nelson’, ‘Oldham’, ‘Preston’, ‘Rochdale’, and ‘Wigan’ were major cotton mill towns during this time)
(‘Blackpool’ was a center for tourism for the inhabitants of Lancashire’s mill towns, particularly during ‘wakes week’)
(the county was subject to significant boundary reform in 1974 that removed ‘Liverpool’ and ‘Manchester’ and most of their surrounding conurbations to form the metropolitan 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’)
(today the county borders ‘Cumbria’ to the north, ‘Greater Manchester’ and ‘Merseyside’ to the south and ‘North’ and ‘West’ ‘Yorkshire’ to the east; with a coastline on the ‘Irish Sea’ to the west)
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(the ‘county palatine boundaries’ remain the same with the ‘duke of lancaster’ exercising sovereignty rights, including the appointment of lords lieutenant in ‘greater manchester’ + ‘merseyside’)
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👈👈👈☜*THE 5 ‘NORTH WEST’ COUNTIES* ☞ 👉👉👉
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