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Lancashire

A visit to Lancashire, a county in , can take you from the glitz and excitement of Blackpool's piers and pleasure beach, to pensive walls through silent moors, to explore the rich industrial heritage of its mills and working museums, or along the trail of England’s most-famous witches across Lancaster and Pendle.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Blackpool and Blackburn.

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is a seaside resort in Lancashire on the northwest coast of England, bordering the Irish Sea. It's a traditional holiday resort with miles of sandy beach, the iconic Tower, and cheap and cheerful amenities for visitors.

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is a large town in Lancashire in . The town has some attractive public buildings and parks, but it is mostly known for its contribution to the cotton weaving industry and for its successful premiership football team, Rovers.

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The city of is the county town of Lancashire in Northwest England, named for the Roman camp on the River Lune. It has an old castle and numerous Victorian buildings.

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is a city in the county of Lancashire in , with a population in 2021 of 148,000. It's a former textile and engineering town; it still makes aircraft, hosts the county local government, and has a university.

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is a town in Lancashire, 30 miles north of . It's an industrial town, but it's proud of its many parks that have been awarded the Green Flag for excellence, and of Forest — great places for walking or cycling.

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is a town in East Lancashire. The town's main visitor attraction is the Tiffany glass collection in its art gallery, and the stark natural beauty of the Pennine moors all around.

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is a seaside town in Lancashire, Northwest England, which also includes the small port of Heysham. Administratively they're both part of the city of Lancaster, five miles east.

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is a seaside resort and fishing town, in Lancashire, in the of . is surrounded on 3 sides by water--the Irish Sea to the north and west and the River Wyre to the east.

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is a town in Lancashire, , in the West Pennine Moors. describes itself as "Lancashire's Market Town". The markets take place most days, and continue to attract shoppers from around the local area.

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is a conurbation in Lancashire, . It is comprised of 3 towns, Lytham, Ansdell and St. Annes. It is a fairly affluent area, having being and still is a place that wealthy people retired to after generating wealthy in a city.

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is an attractive market town in the Ribble Valley in East Lancashire. It has a Norman castle guarding the transport route along the valley, and is a good base for exploring the to the north.

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is a market town in Lancashire, 13 miles north of Liverpool. With a population of 24,000 in 2011, it's the main town of West Lancashire Borough.

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is a small market town in Lancashire in Northwest England. It's best known for its railway station, location for the 1945 David Lean film Brief Encounter, with the station clock ticking relentlessly to trammel the characters' lives.

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is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire. It was developed as a mill town during the industrial revolution, but today has lost much of its industry.

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is a small town and civil parish in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England. has 20 heritage listed buildings. Many of the buildings in the town centre date from the Georgian and Victorian eras.

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The Valley is a borough in Lancashire, consisting of a number of small towns and villages including Haslingden, Rawtenstall, Bacup, Waterfoot and 1 Acre. It lies within the West Pennine Moors.

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is a town in Lancashire in , dating back a thousand years as a small settlement but now grown into a dormitory town on the outskirts of which is a few miles to the west.

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or Thornton-Cleveleys is a part of the Wyre local council area in Lancashire, . It is 3 miles north of , with which it has grown to merge along with the other Fylde Coast towns of Bispham, and .

Lancashire

Latitude of center
53.8433° or 53° 50′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
-2.63° or 2° 37′ 48″ west
Population
1,490,000
Elevation
381 feet (116 metres)
Geo­Names ID
11609047
Wiki­data ID
Q23077
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lancashire” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lancashire”
  • Arabic: “لانكاشير”
  • Arabic: “لانكشاير”
  • Arabic: “لانكشر”
  • Arabic: “لانكشير”
  • Armenian: “Լանքաշիր”
  • Asturian: “Lancashire”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lankaşir”
  • Balinese: “Lancashire”
  • Basque: “Lancashire”
  • Bavarian: “Lancashire”
  • Belarusian: “Ланкашыр”
  • Bengali: “ল্যাঙ্কাশায়ার”
  • Breton: “Lancashire”
  • Bulgarian: “Ланкашър”
  • Catalan: “Lancashire”
  • Cebuano: “Lancashire”
  • Chechen: “Ланкашир”
  • Chinese: “Lancashire”
  • Chinese: “兰开夏郡”
  • Chinese: “蘭開夏”
  • Chinese: “蘭開夏郡”
  • Cornish: “Lancashire”
  • Czech: “Lancashire”
  • Danish: “Lancashire”
  • Dutch: “Lancashire”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لانكاشير”
  • Esperanto: “Lankaŝiro”
  • Esperanto: “Lankastrio”
  • Estonian: “Lancashire”
  • Finnish: “Lancashire”
  • French: “Lancashire”
  • Galician: “Lancashire”
  • Georgian: “ლანკაშირი”
  • German: “Lancashire”
  • Greek: “Λάνκασιρ”
  • Gujarati: “લન્કાશાયર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lancashire”
  • Hebrew: “לנקשייר”
  • Hindi: “लैंकाशिर”
  • Hungarian: “Lancashire”
  • Icelandic: “Lancashire”
  • Ido: “Lancashire”
  • Indonesian: “Lancashire”
  • Interlingua: “Lancashire”
  • Irish: “Lancashire”
  • Italian: “Lancashire”
  • Japanese: “ランカシャー”
  • Kannada: “ಲಂಕಾಷೈರ್”
  • Korean: “랭커셔주”
  • Kurdish: “Lancashire”
  • Ladin: “Lancashire”
  • Latin: “Lancastriensis comitatus”
  • Latvian: “Lankašīra”
  • Lithuanian: “Lankašyras”
  • Low German: “Lancashire”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lancashire”
  • Macedonian: “Ланкашир”
  • Malay: “Lancashire”
  • Manx: “Lancashire”
  • Marathi: “लँकेशायर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lancashire”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lancashire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lancashire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lancashire”
  • Norwegian: “Lancashire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lancashire”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lonceasterscīr”
  • Ossetian: “Ланкашир”
  • Persian: “لانکاشایر”
  • Persian: “لانکاشر”
  • Polish: “Lancashire”
  • Portuguese: “Lancashire”
  • Romanian: “Lancashire”
  • Russian: “Ланкашир”
  • Scots: “Lancashire”
  • Serbian: “Ланкашир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lancashire”
  • Slovak: “Lancashire”
  • Slovenian: “Lancashire”
  • Spanish: “Lancashire”
  • Swedish: “Lancashire”
  • Tajik: “Ланкашир”
  • Tamil: “லேன்கஷீர்”
  • Telugu: “లాంక్షైర్”
  • Thai: “แลงคาเชอร์”
  • Turkish: “Lancashire”
  • Turkish: “Törensel Lancashire Kontluğu”
  • Ukrainian: “Ланкашир”
  • Urdu: “لنکاشائر”
  • Venetian: “contea de Lanca”
  • Vietnamese: “Lancashire”
  • Vlaams: “Lancashire”
  • Volapük: “Lancashire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lancashire”
  • Welsh: “Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
  • Western Panjabi: “لنکاشائر”
  • Wu Chinese: “兰开夏”
  • Yiddish: “לאנקאשיר”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘭開夏郡”

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