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Lancashire (/ˈlæŋkəʃər/ LANG-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 the city of Preston.

The county has an area of 3,079 square kilometres (1,189 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 1,601,645 in 2024. Preston and Blackburn are near the centre of the county, Burnley is in the east, the seaside resort of Blackpool on the coast in the west, and the city of Lancaster in the north. For local government purposes the county comprises a non-metropolitan county, with twelve districts, and two unitary authority areas: Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool. Lancashire County Council and the two unitary councils collaborate through the Lancashire Combined County Authority. The county historically included the Furness and Cartmel peninsulas of Cumbria, northern Greater Manchester and Merseyside, and Warrington, but excluded the eastern part of the Forest of Bowland. (Full article...)

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Blackburn (/ˈblækbɜːrn/ ^ⓘ) is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough, in Lancashire, England. The town lies north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, 8 miles (13 km) east of Preston and 21 miles (34 km) north-north-west of Manchester. Blackburn is at the centre of the wider unitary authority area along with the town of Darwen. It is the second largest town in Lancashire, after Blackpool.

At the 2011 census, Blackburn had a population of 117,963, whilst the wider borough of Blackburn with Darwen had a population of 150,030; 30.8% of the population of town were people of ethnic backgrounds other than White British. (Full article...)

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The following are images from various Lancashire-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Ribble estuarine alluvium (from Geology of Lancashire)
Image 2Map of mid-Lancashire, c. 400. (from History of Lancashire)
Image 3North Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)
Image 4Spoil heaps or "rucks" at Wharton Hall Colliery, Little Hulton (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 5The historic county palatine boundaries in red and the ceremonial county in green (from History of Lancashire)
Image 6Parsonage Colliery in 1980 (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 7Lancashire, nicknamed "The Red Rose County" within England, showing ancient extent (from History of Lancashire)
Image 8A Chorley cake (left) and an Eccles cake (right) (from Chorley cake)
Image 9John Speed's map of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 1610 (from History of Lancashire)
Image 10Eccles cake and Lancashire cheese at a restaurant (from Lancashire cheese)
Image 11British Coalfields (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 12Astley Green Colliery, offices and headgear (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 13The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower of Lancashire, and a common symbol for the county. (from History of Lancashire)
Image 14Worsley Delph, the entrance to the Duke of Bridgewater's underground mines (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 15Monument to James Anderton OBE, inventor of the power shearer, sited in St.Helens (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 16Southwest Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)

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... 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?