Lancashire

Lancashire is a County in the North West England regionwith 1.134.974 inhabitants. A surface area of 2903,1 km2.

The administrative county seat is Preston (it was Lancaster).



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[hide] *1 demographics  ==Demographics[ Edit] == 16.6% of the population is older than 65 years. The unemployment is 2.9% of the labour force (2001 census figures).
 * 2 History
 * 3 Born
 * 4 Districts

The number of inhabitants rose from about 1.116.400 in 1991 to 1.134.974 in 2001. ==History[ Edit] == The County of Lancashire is the place where the industrial revolution as first struck. Was this region in the Northwest of England before 1770 especially a dark swamp, then brought the cotton industry there development and prosperity. The population increased tenfold between 1770 and 1840 and there were some great and a series of medium-sized industrial cities. The flag of Lancashire is the symbol of the House Lancaster, a red rose.

In 1974 were the borders of the County of Liverpool 's deeply modified by the afsplisten and Manchester with their suburbs, which became of the metropolitan counties ofMerseyside and Greater Manchester. The three counties together would be approximately 5 million inhabitants. ==Born<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Districts<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * James Hargreaves (1720-1778), inventor of the Spinning Jenny.
 * Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), inventor, industrialist from the 18th century
 * John Inman (1935-2007), actor
 * Pete Postlethwaite (1946-2011), actor
 * Catherine Ashton (1956), high representative of the European Union.
 * Nick Park (1958), animator
 * Stacey Kemp (1988), figure skater