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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 the county town is the city of Preston.

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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From top left: Blackburn Town Hall and its extension, Blackburn Cathedral, St Silas' Church, Blackburn railway station and Skyline of Blackburn with St Silas' Church and Masjid E Ghousia

Blackburn (/ˈblækbərn/ ^ⓘ) is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, 8 mi (13 km) east of Preston and 21 mi (34 km) north-northwest of Manchester. Blackburn is the core centre of the wider unitary authority area along with the town of Darwen. It is the second largest town (after Blackpool) in Lancashire.

At the 2011 census, Blackburn had a population of 117,963, whilst the wider borough of Blackburn with Darwen had a population of 150,030. Blackburn had a population of 117,963 in 2011, with 30.8% being people of ethnic backgrounds other than white British. (Full article...)

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v t e Ceremonial county of Lancashire
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Unitary authorities	Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool
Boroughs or districts	Burnley Chorley Fylde Hyndburn Lancaster Pendle Preston Ribble Valley Rossendale South Ribble West Lancashire Wyre
Major settlements (cities in italics)	Accrington Bacup Bamber Bridge Barnoldswick Bispham Blackburn Blackpool Brierfield Burnley Burscough Carnforth Chorley Clayton-le-Moors Cleveleys Clitheroe Colne Darwen Earby Euxton Fleetwood Fulwood Garstang Great Harwood Haslingden Heysham Kirkham Lancaster Leyland Longridge Lytham St Annes Morecambe Nelson Ormskirk Oswaldtwistle Padiham Penwortham Poulton-le-Fylde Preesall Preston Rawtenstall Rishton Skelmersdale Thornton Waterfoot Wesham Whitworth See also: List of civil parishes in Lancashire
Rivers	Calder Darwen Douglas Hodder Hyndburn Irwell Lune Ribble Wyre
Canals	Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool
Topics	Parliamentary constituencies Places Population of major settlements Scheduled monuments Schools SSSIs Country houses Grade I buildings Grade II* buildings History Museums Lord Lieutenants High Sheriffs Red Rose

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The following are images from various Lancashire-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Worsley Delph, the entrance to the Duke of Bridgewater's underground mines (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 2John Speed's map of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 1610 (from History of Lancashire)
Image 3Ribble estuarine alluvium (from Geology of Lancashire)
Image 4Map of mid-Lancashire, c. 400. (from History of Lancashire)
Image 5A Chorley cake (left) and an Eccles cake (right) (from Chorley cake)
Image 6Astley Green Colliery, offices and headgear (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 7The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower of Lancashire, and a common symbol for the county. (from History of Lancashire)
Image 8The historic county palatine boundaries in red and the ceremonial county in green (from History of Lancashire)
Image 9Spoil heaps or "rucks" at Wharton Hall Colliery, Little Hulton (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 10Lancashire, nicknamed "The Red Rose County" within England, showing ancient extent (from History of Lancashire)
Image 11Eccles cake and Lancashire cheese at a restaurant (from Lancashire cheese)
Image 12Parsonage Colliery in 1980 (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 13North Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)
Image 14British Coalfields (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 15Monument to James Anderton OBE, inventor of the power shearer, sited in St.Helens (from Lancashire Coalfield)
Image 16Southwest Lancashire in 1610. (from History of Lancashire)

Did you know ...

... that the parish churches of Ormskirk (pictured), Purton and Wanborough are the only churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire?

... that former Burnley chairman Bob Lord described coach Billy Dougall, who worked for the football club for 23 years, as the finest servant a club could have?

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