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Lancashire

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1 What region does Lancashire belong to?

2 ________ has been one of the most successful county cricket teams, particularly in the one-day game.

3 Historically, the docks in ________ were an industrial port, though are now disused for commercial purposes.

4 What is Lancashire's current status?

5 [12] Lonsdale was further partitioned into Lonsdale North, which was the detached part north of Morecambe Bay (also known as ________), and Lonsdale South.

6 In the Domesday Book, its lands between the Ribble and the Mersey were known as "Inter Ripam et Mersam"[6] and were included in the returns for ________.

7 In 2004 Lancashire took the winning title at the Inter-counties championships from ________ who had held it for the past 7 years.

8 Today the largest private industry in Lancashire is the defence industry with ________ Military Air Solutions division based in Warton on the Fylde Coast.

9 Other defence firms include ________ which operates a site at Chorley, Ultra Electronics in Fulwood and Rolls-Royce Plc in Barnoldswick.

10 What is the origin of Lancashire?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Lancashire textile merchant and politician Robert Needham Philips was the grandfather of the historian G. M. Trevelyan?
  • the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Blackpool, Lancashire, was built as a thanksgiving for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster being relatively undamaged in the Second World War?
  • the land for the first Holy Trinity Church in Morecambe, Lancashire, was bequeathed by the village blacksmith?
  • in St Peter's Church, Heysham, Lancashire, is a Viking hogback stone, and in the churchyard is the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross (pictured)?
  • Warton in Lancashire is a historic village famous for its contribution to the UK aerospace industry?
  • John Roby ignored some Lancashire oral traditions in writing about the boggart of Clegg Hall?
  • St Oswald's Church, Warton, Lancashire (pictured), has connections with the ancestors of George Washington?
  • Tower Hill Water Tower (pictured) in Ormskirk, Lancashire, is reputed to be the oldest remaining water tower in England?
  • English landscape architect Edward Milner designed three public parks in Preston, Lancashire, as a scheme for relieving unemployment caused by the cotton famine in the 1860s?
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