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Lancashire

Lancaster

The city of Lancaster is the county town of 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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  • Type: City with 46,000 residents
  • Description: county town of Lancashire, England
  • Also known as: “Lancaster, England” and “Lancaster, Lancashire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lancaster Castle and Lancaster Railway Station.

Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a medieval castle and former prison in Lancaster in the English county of . Its early history is unclear, but it may have been founded in the 11th century on the site of a Roman fort overlooking a crossing of the .

Railway station
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the city of Lancaster, in , England. It is one of the principal stations on the West Coast Main Line, located 20 miles 78 chains north of .

Photo: Mark Longair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a folly in , Lancaster, Lancashire, England, built between 1907 and 1909 by the millionaire industrialist Lord Ashton in memory of his second wife, Jessy, at a cost of £87,000.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Morecambe and Heysham.

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

Town
Photo: Rwendland, Public domain.
is a coastal village in the Lancaster district of , England, overlooking . It is a ferry port, with services to the and Ireland, and the site of two .

Suburb
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is a suburb of , , on the North West coast of England. In the 2001 census, the Ward had a population of 6,758 living in 3,118 households, decreasing marginally to 6,755 at the 2011 Census.

Lancaster

Latitude
54.0488° or 54° 2′ 56″ north
Longitude
-2.8014° or 2° 48′ 5″ west
Population
46,000
Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)
IATA airport code
XQL
United Nations Location Code
GB LAN
Open location code
9C6V25XX+GF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26700976
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2644972
Wiki­data ID
Q205905
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lancaster” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لانكاستر، لانكشاير”
  • Arabic: “لانكستر”
  • Armenian: “Լանկաստեր”
  • Armenian: “Լանքասթեր”
  • Asturian: “Lancaster”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lankaster”
  • Bashkir: “Ланкастер”
  • Basque: “Lancaster”
  • Belarusian: “Ланкастэр”
  • Bengali: “ল্যানচেস্টার”
  • Breton: “Lancaster”
  • Bulgarian: “Ланкастър”
  • Catalan: “Lancaster”
  • Cebuano: “Lancaster”
  • Chinese: “兰卡斯特”
  • Chinese: “蘭加士打”
  • Chinese: “蘭加斯特”
  • Chinese: “蘭卡斯特”
  • Chinese: “蘭開斯特”
  • Czech: “Lancaster”
  • Danish: “Lancaster”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lancaster”
  • Dutch: “Lancaster”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لانكاستر”
  • Esperanto: “Lancaster”
  • Esperanto: “Lankastro”
  • Estonian: “Lancaster”
  • Finnish: “Lancaster”
  • French: “Lancaster”
  • French: “Lancastre”
  • Galician: “Lancaster”
  • Georgian: “ლანკასტერი”
  • German: “Lancaster”
  • Greek: “Λάνκαστερ, Αγγλία”
  • Greek: “Λάνκαστερ, Λάνκασαϊρ”
  • Greek: “Λάνκαστερ”
  • Gujarati: “લેન્કેસ્ટર”
  • Hausa: “Lancaster”
  • Hebrew: “לנקסטר”
  • Hindi: “लैंकेस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Lancaster”
  • Icelandic: “Lancaster”
  • Indonesian: “Lancaster, Lancashire”
  • Indonesian: “Lancaster”
  • Irish: “Lancaster, Lancashire”
  • Irish: “Lancaster”
  • Italian: “Lancaster”
  • Japanese: “ランカスター”
  • Kannada: “ಲಂಕಸ್ಟೆರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲ್ಯಾಂಕಾಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ланкастер (Англия)”
  • Kazakh: “Ланкастер”
  • Korean: “랭커스터”
  • Ladin: “Lancaster”
  • Latin: “Lancastria”
  • Latin: “Mediolanun”
  • Latvian: “Lankastera”
  • Lithuanian: “Lankasteris”
  • Lombard: “Lancaster”
  • Macedonian: “Ланкастер”
  • Malay: “Lancaster”
  • Marathi: “लँकेस्टर”
  • Moksha: “Ланкастэр”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lancaster (Lancashire)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lancaster”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lancaster”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lancaster i Lancashire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lancaster”
  • Norwegian: “Lancaster”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lonceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Ланкастер”
  • Persian: “لنکستر، لانکاشر”
  • Polish: “Lancaster”
  • Portuguese: “Lancaster”
  • Quechua: “Lancaster (Lancashire)”
  • Quechua: “Lancaster”
  • Romanian: “Lancaster”
  • Russian: “Ланкастер”
  • Scots: “Lancaster”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lancaster”
  • Serbian: “Ланкастер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lancaster”
  • Silesian: “Lancaster”
  • Sinhala: “ලැන්කැස්ටර්”
  • Slovak: “Lancaster”
  • Slovenian: “Lancaster”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لنکستر، لانکاشر”
  • Spanish: “Lancaster”
  • Swedish: “Lancaster”
  • Tamil: “லான்காஸ்டர்”
  • Telugu: “లాంకాస్టర్”
  • Thai: “แลงคัสเตอร์”
  • Thai: “แลงคาสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Lancaster, Lancashire”
  • Turkish: “Lancaster”
  • Uighur: “Lankastér”
  • Uighur: “لانكاستېر”
  • Ukrainian: “Ланкастер”
  • Urdu: “لنکاسٹر، لنکاشائر”
  • Vietnamese: “Lancaster, Lancashire”
  • Vietnamese: “Lancaster”
  • Volapük: “Lancaster”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lancaster, Lancashire”
  • Welsh: “Caerhirfryn”
  • Western Panjabi: “لنکاسٹر”
  • Wu Chinese: “兰卡斯特 (兰开夏郡)”
  • Wu Chinese: “兰卡斯特（兰开夏郡）”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘭卡士打”

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