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Lancashire (/ˈlæŋkəʃər/ LAN-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 Blackpool, and Preston is the administrative centre.
The county has an area of 3,079 square kilometres (1,189 sq mi) and a population of 1,490,300. After Blackpool (149,070), the largest settlements are Blackburn (124,995) and the city of Preston (94,490); the city of Lancaster has a population of 52,655. For local government purposes, Lancashire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with twelve districts, and two unitary authority areas, Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool. The county historically included northern Greater Manchester and Merseyside, the Furness and Cartmel peninsulas of Cumbria, and some of northern Cheshire, and excluded the eastern part of the Forest of Bowland. (Full article...)
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Malkin Tower (or the Malking Tower or Mocking Tower) was the home of Elizabeth Southerns, also known as Demdike, and her granddaughter Alizon Device, two of the chief protagonists in the Lancashire witch trials of 1612.
Perhaps the best-known alleged witches' coven in English legal history took place in Malkin Tower on 10 April 1612. Eight of those attending were subsequently arrested and tried for causing harm by witchcraft, seven of whom were found guilty and executed. The house may have been demolished shortly after the trials. The only firm evidence for its location comes from the official account by the clerk of the court, Thomas Potts, who places it somewhere in the Forest of Pendle. Archaeological excavations in the area have failed to discover any confirmed remains of the building. (Full article...)Topics
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- Image 1Lancashire, nicknamed "The Red Rose County" within England, showing ancient extent (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 2Spoil heaps or "rucks" at Wharton Hall Colliery, Little Hulton (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 3North Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 4Southwest Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 5A Chorley cake (left) and an Eccles cake (right) (from Chorley cake)
- Image 6Parsonage Colliery in 1980 (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 7British Coalfields (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 8Map of mid-Lancashire, c. 400. (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 9The historic county palatine boundaries in red and the ceremonial county in green (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 10Monument to James Anderton OBE, inventor of the power shearer, sited in St.Helens (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 11The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower of Lancashire, and a common symbol for the county. (from History of Lancashire)
- Image 12Worsley Delph, the entrance to the Duke of Bridgewater's underground mines (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 13Astley Green Colliery, offices and headgear (from Lancashire Coalfield)
- Image 14Eccles cake and Lancashire cheese at a restaurant (from Lancashire cheese)
- Image 16Ribble estuarine alluvium (from Geology of Lancashire)
Did you know ...
- ... that the flushwork decorating parts of St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling (pictured), Lancashire, is in two colours of sandstone rather than the more usual materials of flint and stone?
- ... that in 1920–21, Burnley were crowned champions of English football for the first time?
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