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3 giorni fa · History. Before the county. During Roman times the area was part of the Brigantes tribal area in the military zone of Roman Britain.
4 giorni fa · A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8. Covers Lonsdale hundred, the northernmost part of the historic county. To the north it includes the parishes of Cartmel, Hawkshead and Ulverston (now in Cumbria).
2 giorni fa · A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 Describes the history of the hundred of Leyland, including the parishes of Chorley and Standish. It also covers part of the hundred of Blackburn, including the parish of Blackburn itself.
4 giorni fa · A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 Detailed local histories of the city of Liverpool, Wigan and most of greater Manchester. The rest of Merseyside is treated in volume III.
2 giorni fa · Liverpool, a city and seaport in northwestern England, forms an irregular crescent along the north shore of the Mersey estuary a few miles from the Irish Sea. It is the nucleus of the metropolitan county of Merseyside in the historic county of Lancashire.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The location that became the city of Liverpool was granted a charter for a planned new town by King John of England in 1207.
- In 1830 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first in England to link two major cities, was opened. A rail network providing easy and cheap ac...
- All four of the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—were born and started their musical careers in Liverpool.
3 giorni fa · A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 Continues the account of Salford hundred begun in volume 4. It includes accounts of the parishes of Bury, Bolton-le-Moors, Prestwich-with-Oldham and Rochdale.
4 giorni fa · Katrina Navickas’s Radicalism and Loyalism in Lancashire is an integrated account of politics, war and industrialisation during the Napoleonic period which explores and challenges both Linda Colley’s account of the forging of British identity and E. P. Thompson’s account of The Making of the English Working Class, quietly ...
