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Blackpool
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Preston
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Blackburn
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Lancaster
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Lancaster is a medium-sized city on the River Lune in Lancashire, and is the county town. Today it is a thriving university city, but the Wars of the Roses during the 15th Century saw many bloody battles between the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
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Morecambe
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Morecambe is a medium-sized seaside town in Lancashire, overlooking Morecambe Bay. It grew as one of England’s most popular holiday resorts during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, but sadly now this is no longer the case. Local comedian Eric Morecambe famously borrowed the town’s name – he is commemorated with a statue on the Promenade.
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Chorley
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Chorley is a medium-sized market town in Lancashire, and a settlement has existed on the site since the Bronze Age and perhaps even before. Its name derives from the Old English word ‘Ley’ meaning clearing in the wood, and from the toown’s location on the banks of the River Chor.
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Ormskirk
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Ormskirk is a small market town on the Lancashire Plain, towards the west of the county. The town is believed to have been founded by Vikings – the ‘Kirk’ part being Norse for ‘Church’; Orme was supposedly a Viking leader. Today Ormskirk is a bustling town, and is home to Edge Hill University.
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Bacup
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Bacup is a small former mill town is East Lancs, close to the border with West Yorkshire. It has been described as one of England’s best-preserved mill towns, having grown markedly with the mechanisation of the textile industry during the 19th Century.
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Accrington
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Accrington is a small former mill town in Lancashire, its cotton mills having long since gone. With the decline of its industry, Accrington’s most famous feature today must surely be its football team, Accrington Stanley F.C.
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Burnley
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Burnley is a large former mill town in East Lancashire. Its origins are presumed to be from the late Anglo-Saxon era, although the town’s finest hour came during the Industrial Revolution, when it was one of Lancashire’s many great mill and coal mining towns.
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