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Campsite Name | Town | Contact | ||
| Old Hall Caravan Park | Capernwray | 01524 733276 |  | |
| Mosswood Caravan Park | Cockerham | 01524 791041 | | |
| Claylands Caravan Park | Garstang | 01524 791242 | | |
| Rimington Caravan Park | Gisburn | 01200 445355 | | |
| Beacon Fell View Caravan Park | Longridge | 01772 785434 | | |
| Eastham Hall Caravan Site | Lytham St Annes | 01253 737907 | | |
| Riverside Caravan Park | Morecambe | 01524 844193 | | |
| Venture Caravan Park | Morecambe | 01524 412986 | | |
| Abbey Farm Caravan Park | Ormskirk | 01695 572686 | | |
| Holgate's Caravan Park | Silverdale | 01524 701508 | |
Where is Lancashire?
About Lancashire
Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Its county council is based at Preston. Commonly, Lancashire is referred to by the abbreviation Lancs, originally used by the Royal Mail.
People from the county are known as Lancastrians. The county was subject to a significant boundary change in 1974; which removed Liverpool and most of Manchester with most of their surrounding conurbations to form part of the new counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester.
Geography of Lancashire
Lancashire drains west from the Pennines into the Irish Sea. The major rivers which discharge into the sea are the Mersey (which forms the historic border with Cheshire and is now located entirely outside the ceremonial county), Ribble, Wyre and Lune. Now within Cumbria are the Leven and Duddon (which forms the historic border with Cumberland). Major tributaries of these rivers include the Calder, Crake, Darwen, Douglas, Hodder, Irwell, Roch, Tame and Yarrow.
Within the historic boundaries are the lakes of Windermere, Coniston Water and Esthwaite Water in the Lake District, which now form part of Cumbria. Windermere forms the traditional border with Westmorland, as does the River Brathay which feeds the lake at its northern end and the River Winster and flows into the Kent estuary to the south-east.
History of Lancashire
The county was established in 1182 and later than many other counties. In the Domesday Book, its lands between the Ribble and the Mersey had been part of Cheshire and the territority to the north formed part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It bordered on Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire, and Cheshire.
The county was divided into the six divisions of Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland, Lonsdale, Salford and West Derby. Lonsdale was further partitioned into Lonsdale North, which was the detached part north of Morecambe Bay (also known as Furness), and Lonsdale South.
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).