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Lancashire



Lancashire has a long history of wrestling, developing its own style called Lancashire wrestling with many clubs that over the years have produced many renowned wrestlers. Some of these have crossed over into the mainstream world of professional wrestling, including Billy Riley, Davey Boy Smith, William Regal and The Dynamite Kid.

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Cuisine

The Ashton Memorial, Lancaster
The Ashton Memorial, Lancaster

Lancashire is widely-known for its eponymous Lancashire Hotpot, a casserole dish traditionally made with lamb and for Lancashire cheese, reputed to be the best toasting cheese in the world. Other traditional foods from the area include:

  • Bénédictine, 80% of the worlds Benedictine is drunk in Burnley.
  • Black peas, also known as parched peas: popular in Bolton and Preston.
  • Black Pudding: long associated with the town of Bury.
  • Bury Simnel: cross between a fruitcake and a biscuit. Eaten on Simnel or Mid-Lent Sunday.
  • Butter Cake - slice of bread and butter.
  • Clapbread: oatcake.
  • Chorley cakes: from the town of Chorley.
  • Ducks: faggots as in savoury ducks.
  • Eccles cakes: from the town of Eccles.
  • Fag Pie: pie made from chopped dried figs, sugar and lard. Associated with Blackburn and Burnley where it was the highlight of Fag Pie Sunday (Mid-Lent Sunday).
  • Fish and Chips: first fish and chip shop in northern England opened in Mossley near Oldham around 1863.[47]
  • Frog-i'-th'-'ole pudding: now known as toad in the hole.
  • Frumenty: sweet porridge. Once a popular dish at Lancashire festivals like Christmas and Easter Monday.
  • Goosnargh Cakes: Small flat shortbread biscuits with coriander or caraway seeds pressed into the biscuit before baking. Traditionally baked on feast days like Shrove Tuesday.
  • Jannock: cake or small loaf of oatmeal. Allegedly introduced to Lancashire (possibly Bolton by Flemish weavers.
  • Nettle Porridge: a common starvation diet in Lancashire in the early 1800s. Made from boiled stinging nettles with perhaps a handful of meal.
  • Ormskirk Gingerbread: local delicacy which were sold all over South Lancashire
  • Pobs, Pobbies: bread and milk.
  • Potato Hotpot, a variation of the Lancashire Hotpot without meat also known as fatherless pie.
  • Ran Dan: barley bread. Food of last resort for the poor at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century.
  • Rag Pudding: Traditional Suet Pudding filled with Minced Meat and Onions.
  • Sad Cake: A traditional cake, perhaps a variation of the more widely known Chorley cake, once common around Burnley.
  • Scouse, a type of stew popular in Liverpool (historically part of Lancashire).
  • Throdkins: a traditional breakfast food of the Fylde.

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Famous Lancastrians

As one of the most populous counties Lancashire has produced many famous names. See people from Lancashire.

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Catholic History

Lancashire is noted for its high percentage of Catholics, historically due in most part to immigration from Ireland. Preston has the highest proportion of Catholics in Great Britain.[citation needed] Areas above the River Ribble form part of the Diocese of Lancaster.

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Places of interest

The following are places of interest in the ceremonial county:

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Notes and References

  1. ^ Vision of Britain - Lancashire
  2. ^ Gibb, Robert (2005). Greater Manchester: A panorama of people and places in Manchester and its surrounding towns. Myriad, 13. ISBN 1-904736-86-6. 
  3. ^ a b c d George, D., Lancashire, (1991)
  4. ^ a b c Local Government Act 1972. 1972, c. 70
  5. ^ Vision of Britain - Divisions of Lancashire
  6. ^ Lancashire County Council - Lancashire districts
  7. ^ OPSI - The Lancashire (Boroughs of Blackburn and Blackpool) (Structural Change) Order 1996
  8. ^ Lancashire County Council - Map of Lancashire (Unitary boundaries shown)
  9. ^ Government Office for the North West - Local Authorities
  10. ^ Opening of the new Town-Hall at Preston. The Times. September 15, 1882.
  11. ^ Lancashire County Council - County Councillors by Area
  12. ^ BUBL Information Service - The Relative Hills of Britain
  13. ^ Administrative (1974) County Tops
  14. ^ Historic County Tops
  15. ^ Cumbria County Council - Discover Cumbria
  16. ^ Her Majesty's Stationary Office, Aspects of Britain: Local Government, (1996)
  17. ^ a b Sylvester (1980). p. 14.
  18. ^ Morgan (1978). pp.269c–301c,d.
  19. ^ Booth, P. cited in George, D., Lancashire, (1991)
  20. ^ Harris and Thacker (1987). write on page 252:

    Certainly there were links between Cheshire and south Lancashire before 1000, when Wulfric Spot held lands in both territories. Wulfric's estates remained grouped together after his death, when they were left to his brother Aelfhelm, and indeed there still seems to have been some kind of connexion in 1086, when south Lancashire was surveyed together with Cheshire by the Domesday commissioners. Nevertheless, the two territories do seem to have been distinguished from one another in some way and it is not certain that the shire-moot and the reeves referred to in the south Lancashire section of Domesday were the Cheshire ones.

  21. ^ Phillips and Phillips (2002). pp. 26–31.
  22. ^ Crosby, A. (1996). writes on page 31:

    The Domesday Survey (1086) included south Lancashire with Cheshire for convenience, but the Mersey, the name of which means 'boundary river' is known to have divided the kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia and there is no doubt that this was the real boundary.

  23. ^ Booth, P. cited in George, D., Lancashire, (1991)
  24. ^ Vision of Britain - Lancashire ancient county divisions
  25. ^ Berrington, E., Change in British Politics, (1984)
  26. ^ a b Vision of Britain - Lancashire ancient county boundaries
  27. ^ Lord Redcliffe-Maud and Bruce Wood. English Local Government Reformed. (1974)
  28. ^ a b Jones, B. et al, Politics UK, (2004)
  29. ^ OPSI - The Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside (County and Metropolitan Borough Boundaries) Order 1993
  30. ^ Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 4 December 1995, column 116
  31. ^ Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 21 April 1994, column 1146
  32. ^ Final Recommendations on the Future Local Government of Sefton, Local Government Commission for England, November 1997.
  33. ^ Alan Crosby, The Lancashire Dictionary, page xiii for Cumbria and page xix for Merseyside
  34. ^ The Duchy of Lancaster - Boundary Map
  35. ^ Duchy of Lancaster website
  36. ^ House of Commons Hansard debates for 15 June 1992 (2nd paragraph in "Duchy of Lancaster" section
  37. ^ High Sheriffs, The Times, March 21, 1985
  38. ^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
  39. ^ includes hunting and forestry
  40. ^ includes energy and construction
  41. ^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
  42. ^ Transport for Lancashire - Lancashire Inter Urban Bus and Rail Map (PDF)
  43. ^ Vision of Britain - Lancashire boundaries 1974
  44. ^ Chandler, J., Local Government Today, (2001)
  45. ^ a b Youngs. Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Volume 2. Northern England.
  46. ^ LCCC contact details
  47. ^ History of fish and chips

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Bibliography

  • Crosby, A. (1996). A History of Cheshire. (The Darwen County History Series.) Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0850339324.
  • Harris, B. E., and Thacker, A. T. (1987). The Victoria History of the County of Chester. (Volume 1: Physique, Prehistory, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Domesday). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0197227619.
  • Morgan, P. (1978). Domesday Book Cheshire: Including Lancashire, Cumbria, and North Wales. Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0850331404.
  • Phillips A. D. M., and Phillips, C. B. (2002), A New Historical Atlas of Cheshire. Chester, UK: Cheshire County Council and Cheshire Community Council Publications Trust. ISBN 0904532461.
  • Sylvester, D. (1980). A History of Cheshire. (The Darwen County History Series). (2nd Edition.) London and Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0850333849.

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Coordinates: 53°48′N 2°36′W / 53.8, -2.6




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