Lancashire County Council
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/

• Janet Anderson
• David Borrow
• Rosie Cooper
• Nigel Evans
• Mark Hendrick
• Lindsay Hoyle
• Joan Humble
• Michael Jack
• Gordon Marsden
• Greg Pope
• Gordon Prentice
• Geraldine Smith
• Jack Straw
• Kitty Ussher
• Ben Wallace

1. West Lancashire
2. Chorley
3. South Ribble
4. Fylde
5. Preston
6. Wyre
7. Lancaster
8. Ribble Valley
9. Pendle
10. Burnley
11. Rossendale
12. Hyndburn
13. Blackpool (Unitary)
14. Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary)

Lancashire

Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin	Historic
Region	North West England
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 17th 3,075 km² Ranked 16th 2,903 km²
Admin HQ	Preston
GB	GB-LAN
ONS code	30
NUTS 3	UKD43
Demographics
Population - Total () - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked / km² Ranked
Ethnicity	93.4% White 5.3% S. Asian
Politics
Executive
Members of Parliament
Districts

Lancashire is a county and duchy palatine in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, though the county council is currently based at Preston. Commonly, Lancashire is referred to by the abbreviation Lancs, originally used by the Royal Mail.

The Red Rose of Lancaster is the traditional symbol for the House of Lancaster, immortalized in the verse "In the battle for England's head/York was white, Lancaster red" (referring to the 15th century War of the Roses), and is the county flower County flowers in Britain www.plantlife.org.uk.

Ths highest point within the traditional borders of Lancashire is Coniston Old Man in the Lake District at 803m (2,634 ft). The highest point of the post-1974 county is Gragareth, near Whernside, which reaches a height of 627m (2,057 ft)Page at BUBL quoting Gragareth as the highest point in Lancashire. (Green Hill, near to Gragareth has also been cited as the county top).

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