Preston, Lancashire Toponymy
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Preston (/ˈprɛstən/ ) is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England. The city is the administrative centre of the county of Lancashire...- The toponymy of England derives from a variety of linguistic origins. Many English toponyms have been corrupted and broken down over the years, due to...
Bay. Lancaster is the county town although Lancashire County Council has been based at County Hall in Preston since its formation in 1889. The city's long...
Chorley (redirect from Chorley, Lancashire)town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, 8 miles (13 km) north of Wigan, 11 miles (18 km) south west...
Goosnargh (redirect from Goosnargh, Lancashire)(/ˈɡuːznər/ GOOZ-nər) is a village and civil parish in the City of Preston district of Lancashire, England. The village lies between Broughton and Longridge,...
county boroughs being formed. Since then Lancashire County Council has been seated at County Hall in Preston. In 1974 the administrative county was abolished...
Blackburn (redirect from Blackburn, Lancashire)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...
Adlington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, near the West Pennine Moors. It is 3 miles (5 kilometres) south...
Skelmersdale (redirect from Ashurst, Lancashire)Skelmersdale /ˈskɛlmərzdeɪl/ is a town in the West Lancashire district, in Lancashire, England, on the River Tawd, 6 miles (10 km) west of Wigan, 13 miles...
Burnley (redirect from Burnley, Lancashire)Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is 21 miles (34 km) north of Manchester and 20 miles (32 km) east of Preston, at the...
Walton-le-Dale (category Villages in Lancashire)borough of South Ribble, in Lancashire, England. It lies on the south bank of the River Ribble, opposite the city of Preston, adjacent to Bamber Bridge...
Wigan (redirect from Wigan, Lancashire)captured Preston but failed in assaults on Manchester and Lancaster and two attempts to capture Bolton. Abandoning attempts to secure Lancashire, he took...
Manchester (redirect from Manchester, Lancashire)becoming the world's first industrialised city. Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester...
Liverpool (redirect from Liverpool, Lancashire)obvious meaning. G. Melville Richards (1910–1973), a pioneer of scientific toponymy in Wales, in "Place Names of North Wales", does not attempt to explain...
Rivington (redirect from Rivington, Lancashire)Rivington is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England, occupying 2,538 acres (4.0 sq mi; 10.3 km2). It is about 6 miles...
Farnworth (redirect from Farnworth, Lancashire)miles (12.9 km) northwest of Manchester. Within the historic county of Lancashire, Farnworth lies on the River Irwell and River Croal. At the 2011 Census...
Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. Its largest settlement is...
Bolton (redirect from Bolton, Lancashire)administrative centre. The town is within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a centre for textile production since...
Salford (redirect from Salford, Lancashire)It was the former Salfordshire's judicial seat in historic county of Lancashire. It was granted a market charter in about 1230 by Ranulf de Blondeville...
Leominster (section Toponymy)John Wyatt. The mill was financed by Lancashire native Daniel Bourn, and was partly owned by other men from Lancashire. Bourn introduced his own version...
