Lancashire
A visit to Lancashire, a county in North West England, 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.Photo: Jon Royle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Popular Destinations
Blackpool
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Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire on the northwest coast of England, bordering the Irish Sea.
Blackburn
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Blackburn is a large town in Lancashire in North West England.
Preston
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Preston is a city in the county of Lancashire in North West England, with a population in 2021 of 148,000.
Destinations
Lancaster
The city of Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire in Northwest England, named for the Roman camp on the River Lune.Accrington
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Accrington 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.
Morecambe
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Morecambe is a seaside town in Lancashire, Northwest England, which also includes the small port of Heysham.
Fleetwood
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Fleetwood is a seaside resort and fishing town, in Lancashire, in the North West of England.
Chorley
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Chorley is a town in Lancashire, England, in the West Pennine Moors.
Lytham St Annes
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Lytham St Annes is a conurbation in Lancashire, England.
Ormskirk
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Ormskirk is a market town in Lancashire, 13 miles north of Liverpool.
Clitheroe
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Clitheroe is an attractive market town in the Ribble Valley in East Lancashire.
Carnforth
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Carnforth is a small market town in Lancashire in Northwest England.
Nelson
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Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire.
Kirkham
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Kirkham is a small town and civil parish in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England.
Rossendale
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The Rossendale Valley is a borough in Lancashire, consisting of a number of small towns and villages including Haslingden, Rawtenstall, Bacup, Waterfoot and 1 Acre.
Poulton-le-Fylde
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Poulton-le-Fylde is a town in Lancashire in England, dating back a thousand years as a small settlement but now grown into a dormitory town on the outskirts of Blackpool which is a few miles to the west.
Cleveleys
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Cleveleys or Thornton-Cleveleys is a part of the Wyre local council area in Lancashire, England.
Lancashire
- Type: Region with 1,490,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county in North-West England, United Kingdom
- Neighbors: Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
53.8433° or 53° 50' 36" northLongitude of center
-2.63° or 2° 37' 48" westPopulation
1,490,000Elevation
381 feet (116 metres)GeoNames ID
11609047Wikidata ID
Q23077Lancashire Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Lancashire
- Arabic: 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
- 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
- English: Ceremonial County Lancashire
- English: Lancashire, England
- English: Lancs
- Esperanto: Lankastrio
- Esperanto: Lankaŝiro
- Estonian: Lancashire
- Finnish: Lancashire
- French: Lancashire
- Galician: Lancashire
- Georgian: ლანკაშირი
- German: Lancashire
- Greek: Λάνκασιρ
- Gujarati: લન્કાશાયર
- Hakka Chinese: Lancashire
- Hausa: 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
- Manx: Lancashire
- Marathi: लँकेशायर
- Min Nan Chinese: Lancashire
- Northern Frisian: Lancashire
- Norwegian: Lancashire
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lancashire
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Lancashire
- Occitan (post 1500): Lancashire
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Lonceasterscīr
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Lonċeastersċīr
- 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
- 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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