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Lancashire, like many northern counties fell prey to Scottish Raids from King David I of Scotland with the Battle of Clitheroe in 1138 where the county was then briefly a part of Scotland, to Robert the Bruce with the Great Raid of 1322, reaching as far south as Chorley.
This page gives an overview of the history of Lancashire, from the prehistoric to the 20th Century. There are links to many of the sites mentioned on this page, which will take you to a discussion of each one and how to access them.
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.
In Great Domesday (the first volume of the Domesday Book), Lancashire south of the Ribble is to be found with the Cheshire folios, while north Lancashire and adjacent parts of Cumberland and Westmorland were regarded as simply a north-western appendage of Eurvicscire or Yorkshire.
3 days ago · 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).
Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig; Scots: Lanrikshire), is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the Central Lowlands and Southern Uplands of Scotland.
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6 days ago · The Scottish border wars, the plague known as the Black Death, and the long, drawn-out Wars of the Roses were a drain on resources. Monasticism was strong, with large foundations at Whalley and Lancaster, and many Lancastrians remained faithful to Roman Catholicism even after the Reformation.
