Leyland
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- Type: Town with 37,600 residents
- Description: town in Lancashire, England
- Also known as: “Leyland, Lancashire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Andrew’s Church, Leyland and British Commercial Vehicle Museum.
St Andrew’s Church, Leyland
Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in Leyland, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Blackburn.
British Commercial Vehicle Museum
Museum
Photo: Sherpa 536, CC BY 2.0.
The British Commercial Vehicle Museum displays antiquarian buses, early fire engines and other historical and commercial vehicles produced by the British manufacturing industry.
Wellfield Academy
School
Wellfield Academy is a coeducational secondary school located in Leyland in the English county of Lancashire. Wellfield High School was previously awarded specialist status as a Business and Enterprise College.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whittle-le-Woods and Whitestake.
Whittle-le-Woods
Village
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Whittle-le-Woods is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,434. Whittle-le-Woods is situated 2½ miles east of Leyland.
Whitestake
Village
Photo: Margaret Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitestake is a small village in the South Ribble district of Lancashire, England, on the eastern edge of New Longton It is at the boundary of the parishes of Farington, Longton and Penwortham. Whitestake is situated 2½ miles northwest of Leyland.
Bolton Green
Hamlet
Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bolton Green is a village in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England. Bolton Green Hall farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building dating from 1612. Bolton Green is situated 2½ miles south of Leyland.
Leyland
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: South Ribble, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.69048° or 53° 41′ 26″ northLongitude
-2.69913° or 2° 41′ 57″ westPopulation
37,600Elevation
128 feet (39 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LYLOpen location code
9C5VM8R2+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 29390813OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Leyland” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليلاند”
- Asturian: “Leyland”
- Basque: “Leyland (Lancashire)”
- Basque: “Leyland”
- Bulgarian: “Лейланд”
- Cebuano: “Leyland”
- Chinese: “利蘭 (蘭開夏郡)”
- Chinese: “萊蘭”
- Dutch: “Leyland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليلاند”
- French: “Leyland”
- German: “Leyland”
- Hebrew: “ליילנד”
- Irish: “Leyland, Lancashire”
- Italian: “Leyland”
- Japanese: “リーランド”
- Japanese: “レイランド”
- Ladin: “Leyland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leyland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leyland”
- Norwegian: “Leyland”
- Persian: “لیلاند، لانکاشر”
- Polish: “Leyland”
- Romanian: “Leyland”
- Silesian: “Leyland (Lancashire)”
- Silesian: “Leyland”
- Spanish: “Leyland”
- Swedish: “Leyland, Lancashire”
- Swedish: “Leyland”
- Turkish: “Leyland, Lancashire”
- Turkish: “Leyland”
- Urdu: “لیلینڈ، لنکاشائر”
- Uzbek: “Leyland, Lankashir”
- Volapük: “Leyland”
- Welsh: “Leyland, Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
- Welsh: “Leyland”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Leyland Family Hearing Centre and Leyland Library.
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