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Lancashire, nicknamed "The Red Rose County" within England, showing ancient extent. 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, [1] making it one of the youngest of the traditional counties.
Lancashire was founded in the 12th century; in the Domesday Book of 1086 much of what would become the county is treated as part of Yorkshire and Cheshire. Until the Early Modern period the county was a comparatively poor backwater, although in 1351 it became a palatine, with a semi-independent judicial system.
5 days ago · During the 16th and 17th centuries the towns of Lancashire began to prosper with the manufacture of linen (in the west) and woolen cloth (in the east). The Industrial Revolution originated in Lancashire during the 18th century with the introduction of cotton manufacture, combining the use of waterpower, the mechanization of spinning, and the ...
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The earliest sites in Lancashire date from the Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age, a time when hunter gatherers roamed what has become the moorland areas of today. They lived in temporary camps and hunted the deer that would browse the woodland fringes.
Perhaps the most notable Lancashire example of this diversity is George Fox who in 1652, on the summit of Pendle Hill, experienced a vision, which later led him to the home of Thomas and Margaret Fell near Ulverston where the Quaker movement may be said to have been founded. By the 1750’s most of Lancashire’s common arable and meadow was ...
In 1182 Lancashire was first termed 'the county of Lancashire' in the pipe rolls (which were the main record of central government transactions) under King Henry II. 1267 Edmund Crouchback was created 1st Earl of Lancaster.
Liverpool, founded in 1207, was built around its vast docks from the Irish trade then the Atlantic and African trade routes. King John founded his new port at a marsh on the Mersey, at the point where the great gulf of the Mersey narrows again into a pinch before entering the Irish Sea.
