Lancashire

Lancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster) is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. Its name is sometimes abbreviated to Lancs. Its traditional county town is Lancaster, but the county council is based at Preston. Areas previously administered by the County Council came under the juristiction of West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Cheshire, the new Metropolitan Counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester and the new administrative county of Cumbria.

Places of interest

• Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley
• Astley Hall
• British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland
• East Lancashire Railway, a heritage railway
• Helmshore Textile Museum
• Hoghton Tower
• Samlesbury Hall
• Lathom Park Chapel, site of Lathom Hall, seat of the Earls of Derby
• Lancaster Castle
• The Pennines, provide great opportunity for Mountain Biking, and
• Rock Climbing is also popular with the area having some 6600+ routes to climb many of which are in disused quarries (Quarry)
• Forest of Bowland
• Forest of Bowland AONB - Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• RSPB Leighton Moss nature reserve, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
• Morecambe Bay
• WWT Martin Mere, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve, Burscough
• Wyre Forest NNR National Nature Reserve
• Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Ribble Link
• River Ribble, River Douglas, River Tawd, River Lostock, River Irwell, River Roch
• Williamson Park and the Ashton Memorial