Lancaster (/ ˈ l æ ŋ k ə s t ər /, / ˈ l æ n k æ s-/) is a city and the county town of Lancashire, England, standing on the River Lune.Its population of 52,234 compares with one of 138,375 in the wider City of Lancaster local government district. The House of Lancaster was a branch of the English royal family.The Duchy of Lancaster still holds large estates on behalf of Charles III ...

England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. Continuous human habitation in …

The Religious Society of Friends began as a proto-evangelical Christian movement in England in the mid-17th century in Lancashire. Members are informally known as Quakers, as they were said "to tremble in the way of the Lord".The movement in its early days faced strong opposition and persecution, but it continued to expand across the British Isles and then in the Americas …

The British empire had a huge impact on the spread of football not only in the country, but around the world by promoting football. The growth of football in England and the world started with the formation of clubs from local elites in the country. An early example of these aforementioned clubs were Darwen and Turton in Lancashire.

The England women's national rugby union team, also known as the Red Roses, represents England in women's international rugby union.They compete in the annual Women's Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.England have won the championship on a total of 18 out of 27 occasions – winning the Grand Slam 16 times and the …

Lancashire is a county of England, in the northwest of the country.The county did not exist in 1086, for the Domesday Book, and was apparently first created in 1182, making it one of the youngest of the traditional counties.. The historic county consisted of two separate parts. The main part runs along the northwestern coast of England.

Sep 26, 2022 · The England and Lancashire fast bowler, who admits he rarely watches cricket when not playing, has not taken to the field for five months because of a stress fracture in his back. "I miss bowling ...

Heywood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, in the historic county of Lancashire.It had a population of 28,205 at the 2011 Census. The town lies on the south bank of the River Roch, 2.4 miles (3.9 km) east of Bury, 3.7 miles (6.0 km) southwest of Rochdale, and 7.4 miles (11.9 km) north of Manchester. ...

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, the increasing use of steam power and …

A wagonway, essentially a railway powered by animals drawing the cars or wagons, was used by German miners at Caldbeck, Cumbria, England, perhaps from the 1560s. A wagonway was built at Prescot, near Liverpool, sometime around 1600, possibly as early as 1594.Owned by Philip Layton, the line carried coal from a pit near Prescot Hall to a terminus about half a mile away.