* July 15 – Archie MacLaren scores County Championship cricket record innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.

The accents of Northern England are also distinctive including a range of variations: Northumberland, County Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Cumbria, Lancashire with regional variants in Bolton, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, Preston, Blackpool, Merseyside and Wigan, Yorkshire is also distinctive, having variations between the North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.

* Northumbria is divided by the Normans into the counties of Northumberland, County Palatine of Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Lancashire.

The Municipal Borough of Bacup became a local government district of the administrative county of Lancashire under the Local Government Act 1894, meaning it shared power with the strategic Lancashire County Council.

Lancaster County was named after the city of Lancaster in the county of Lancashire in England, the native home of John Wright, one of the early settlers.

Lancaster was named after an official of the Soo Line, believed to have come from Lancashire County in England.

The city was named after a railroad official believed to have come from Lancashire County in England.

The castle buildings are owned by Lancashire County Council, which leases a major part of the structure to the Ministry of Justice who operate a crown court in part of the building.

* Lancaster Castle official site from Lancashire County Council

Lancashire College, based in Chorley, is a part of Lancashire County Council's Lancashire Adult Learning, offering a wide range of courses, a speciality being intensive residential language courses.

There are nine partners: British Waterways, Cumbria County Council, Inland Waterways Association, Kendal Town Council, Lancashire County Council, City of Lancaster Council, Lancaster Canal Trust, South Lakeland District Council, and The Waterways Trust.

By that date he had been on a tour to the north-west, which went via the Welsh marches to Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumberland ; while other itineraries took him to the west Midlands, the north-east ( reaching Yorkshire and County Durham ), and the Bristol region.

Gower made his debut for Leicestershire on 30 July 1975, during that season's County Championship, against Lancashire at Stanley Park, Blackpool.

A year later he made 73 on his county debut for Lancashire County Cricket Club, scoring his maiden first-class hundred against Derbyshire a fortnight later.

Courage purchased John Smith's in 1970 for £ 40 million (£ in adjusted for inflation ), by which time the company owned some 1, 800 public houses, hotels and freehold clubs spread throughout Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, County Durham, Cheshire, Lincolnshire,

He represented Preston and Lancashire in the House of Commons and in 1832, two years before he succeeded his father, he was raised to the peerage in his own right as Baron Stanley, of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

The borough, while independent of Lancashire County Council for local government, remained part of the county for purposes such as the administration of justice and lieutenancy.

The historic county boundaries are with Cumberland to the north, County Durham and Yorkshire to the east, and Lancashire to the south and west.

* County Championship – Lancashire

In other matches that season, Gloucestershire made its first visit to Old Trafford Cricket Ground in July to play Lancashire and this was the match immortalised by Francis Thompson in his idyllic poem At Lord's.

* Old Trafford Cricket Ground, home of Lancashire County Cricket Club

* Manchester United founded as Newton Heath Cricket & Football Club by employees of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.

Former England cricketer and current captain of Lancashire County Cricket Club, Glen Chapple was born in Skipton in 1974.

Having completed his first tour of England with West Indies in 1957, he followed the advice of his mentor Frank Worrell and became the professional at Radcliffe Cricket Club in the Central Lancashire League, staying for five seasons from 1958 to 1962.

Newton has produced a number of players who have progressed onto Lancashire County Cricket Club.

Liverpool Cricket Club, a regular home venue of Lancashire County Cricket Club, and Sefton Park Cricket Club, is located in Aigburth.

* The history of Lancashire County Cricket Club.

He has appeared five times at V Festival since 1998 along with regular appearances at T in the Park and Oxegen festivals, and played the Move festival in 2002 at Lancashire Cricket Ground.

Sports players from Keynsham include Mark Regan a professional rugby player and a former player at Keynsham Rugby Football Club, Luke Sutton of Lancashire County Cricket Club who played as both a wicket-keeper and batsman, Marcus Trescothick, the Somerset and England cricketer.

Meadow Road is home to Adlington Cricket Club which plays in the local Lancashire and Bolton leagues.

He is a member of both the Fabian Society and the Lancashire County Cricket Club.

and Lancashire County Cricket Club supporter, lives in Lees, Greater Manchester.

In 1932, he left Trinidad for the small town of Nelson in Lancashire, England, at the invitation of his friend, West Indian cricketer Learie Constantine, who needed his help writing his autobiography Cricket and I ( published in 1933 ).

Heywood Cricket Club, based in Heywood, Greater Manchester, are an English cricket team that plays in the Central Lancashire Cricket League.

Littleborough Cricket Club, based in Littleborough, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, is an English cricket team currently playing in the Central Lancashire League.

Littleborough hold Lancashire Cricket Board Focus Club status and are ECB Clubmark accredited.

Middleton Cricket Club, based in Middleton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester are an English Cricket team currently playing in the Central Lancashire League.

Manchester United was formed in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( LYR ) depot at Newton Heath.

*** Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club, the team that will become Manchester United.

Accrington Stanley Football Club is an English football club based in Accrington, Lancashire.

Accrington Football Club were an English football club from Accrington, Lancashire, who were one of the founder members of The Football League.

The current champion is Ernie Els who won in 2012 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.

Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 and based in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool.

Even though Alastair was born in Yorkshire, he would go over the county border to Lancashire to watch Burnley Football Club with his father, Donald.

Blackburn Rovers Football Club () is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire.

Winwick Athletic FC is a junior football club that has become a very well known and highly successful FA Charter Standard Development Club ( in fact winning the Lancashire County and North West Regional Awards in 2007, 2009 and 2011 as well as then also winning the prestigious FA Charter Standard National Club of the Year Award in 2009 ).

Burnley Football Club are a professional Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire.