The city is located on the River Lune ( from which it derives its name ), and the Lancaster Canal.

The Lancaster Canal and River Lune also pass through the city.

Category: Lancaster Canal

* Lancaster Canal

The Lancaster Canal is a canal in the north of England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria ( then in Westmorland ).

It received the Royal Assent on 11 June 1792, and was entitled An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, from Kirkby Kendal in the county of Westmoreland, to West Houghton in the county palatine of Lancaster, and also a navigable Branch from the said intended Canal at or near Barwick, to or near Warton Cragg, and also another navigable Branch, from, at or near, Galemoss, by Chorley, to or near Duxbury in the said county palatine of Lancaster.

The Act created the Company of Proprietors of the Lancaster Canal Navigation, and gave them powers to raise £ 414, 100 by the issuing of shares, and an additional £ 200, 000, either by mortgage or by issuing more shares, if required.

The Inland Waterways Association organised several protest meetings, and the one held in Lancaster led to the formation of the Lancaster Canal Boat Club.

In 1976, the Lancaster Canal Trust mounted a campaign for the construction of slipways on this section, to make the launching of boats easier, which proved to be successful, as they were used at Easter 1978, when a boat rally was held on the upper reaches.

The double-track Lancaster Canal Tramroad was opened in 1803 with three steam-worked inclined planes and a low trestle bridge across the Ribble.

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal having reached Blackburn by 1810, a decision was made to link with the Lancaster Canal's southern end to avoid constructing a parallel waterway.

In 1851 the Lancaster Canal leased the tolls on the southern end to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in return for an annual rent, and this agreement was made permanent in 1864.

The Northern Reaches Restoration Group ( NRRG ) and the Lancaster Canal Restoration Partnership aim to restore the canal from Tewitfield to Kendal.

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.

During the Second World War, Victory Aircraft built Avro ( UK ) aircraft: 3, 197 Anson trainers, 430 Lancaster bombers, six Lancastrian, one Lincoln bomber and one York transport.

The bridge, built in 1873 by Elias McMellen, is today surrounded by a development, shopping center, and highways on the boundary of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Along with the Pine Grove Covered Bridge ( built in 1884 ), it was one of a number of covered bridges built along the border between Lancaster and Chester counties.

Fulton Hall, named after Robert Fulton, Lancaster County's steam engine pioneer, was built on the foundation of Lancaster's pre-Revolutionary jail.

Her husband, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, built a magnificent palace that was burned down by Wat Tyler's followers in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381.

The Old Conestoga Road was the main path connecting Philadelphia to the west, but in 1792 the new Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike was built, bypassing Strasburg four miles to the north.

Roe later founded the Avro aircraft company, which later built the acclaimed Avro Lancaster.

The Gap Town Clock, built in 1892, is a Lancaster County Historic Preservation Trust Site located in Gap.

Of particular note are the Lancaster Building designed by E. B. Blaisdell and built in 1895, Trinity Episcopal Church designed by H. J. Hardenbergh and built in 1908, and the York Harbor Reading Room designed by James Purdon and built in 1910.

The area had an inn, originally built in 1762, called the Three Mile House because it was from Reading on the Lancaster Pike.

Examples of the churches they built include Donegal in Lancaster County, Derry near Hershey, Paxtang near Harrisburg, and Silver Spring near Carlisle.

The mansion he built there later became the home of Prince Edmund, the Earl of Lancaster ; his descendants, the Dukes of Lancaster, lived there throughout the next century.

In 79 AD, a Roman fort was built at Lancaster on a hill commanding a crossing over the River Lune.

The north transept was built under the patronage of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster around 1380.

A new sharp curve was built under Lancaster Place to enable an exit through the western side wall of Waterloo Bridge and a triangular junction with the through line was constructed.

Although in some respects ( such as crew survivability ) better than the Lancaster, the Halifax suffered in terms of altitude performance and was redeployed toward the end of the war as a heavy transoport and glider tug, with several variants being specifically built as such, including the HP. 70 Halton.

This demonstrated that a bomb of sufficient size could be carried by an Avro Lancaster rather than waiting for a larger bomber such as the Windsor to be built.

* 1990: A 1903 Antique Dentzel Carousel, originally built for Rocky Springs Park in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is relocated to the park.

The Lancaster Presbyterian Church is the second oldest religious structure in Erie County, built in 1832.

The company dissolved in 1960, but Hecht would produce two more films in which Lancaster acted, under Norma Productions, ( 1961 ) and Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ).

In addition, Lancaster directed two films, The Kentuckian ( 1955 ) and The Midnight Man ( 1974 ).

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

At the British Bomber Command, Dyson and colleagues proposed ripping out two gun turrets from the RAF Lancaster bombers, to cut the catastrophic losses to German fighters in the Battle of Berlin.

On 29 April 2008, two teens Ryan Herbert and Brendan Harris were convicted for the murder of Lancaster and given life sentences, three others were given lesser sentences for the assault on her boyfriend Robert Maltby.

They travelled via Baffin Bay, Lancaster and Peel Sounds, and James Ross, Simpson and Rae Straits and spent two winters near King William Island in what is today Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada.

John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana, the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger ( July 2, 1864 – November 3, 1943 ) and Mary Ellen " Mollie " Lancaster ( 1860 – 1907 ).

Henry's mother was Blanche, heiress to the considerable Lancaster estates, thus he became the first King of England from the Lancaster branch of the Plantagenets, one of the two family branches that were belligerents in the War of the Roses.

Despite the momentary respite delivered by Isabella, by the autumn of 1321, the tensions between the two factions of Edward, Isabella and the Despenser, opposing the baronial opposition led by Thomas of Lancaster, were extremely high, with forces still mobilised across the country.

* Lancaster is home to the Lancaster campus of Ohio University, offering a variety of two and four year baccalaureate degrees, and several master's programs.

* Lancaster is home to the Lancaster campus of Daymar College, offering two year degrees in various fields and career paths.

The term, the Wars of the Roses, refers to the informal heraldic badges of the two rival houses of Lancaster and York which had been contending for power, and ultimately for the throne, since the late 1450s.

In the UK Royal Air Force ( RAF ) the individual serial takes the form of two letters followed by three digits, e. g., BT308 — the prototype Avro Lancaster, or XS903 — an English Electric Lightning F. 6 at one time based at RAF Binbrook.

He argued that A Shrew was simply too different from The Shrew to come under the bad quarto banner, unlike Alexander's other examples of bad quartos The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of Yorke.

At two points in the film the station location is indicated by platform signs referring to local destinations including, Leeds, Bradford, Morecambe & Lancaster.

The two deaths brought to an end the direct line of the House of Lancaster.

The peace did not last between the two and Charles eventually struck up an alliance with Henry of Grosmont, the first Duke of Lancaster.

The names of the original Lancaster County townships reflect the diverse array of settlers in the new county: two had Welsh names ( Caernarvon and Lampeter ), three had Native American names ( Cocalico, Conestoga and Peshtank or Paxton ), six were English ( Warwick, Lancaster, Martic, Sadsbury, Salisbury and Hempfield ); four were Irish ( Donegal, Drumore, Derry, and Leacock ), Manheim was German, Lebanon came from the Bible, and Earl the anglicization of the German surname of Graf or Groff.

Lancaster also has two outlet shopping centers, both of which are located in East Lampeter township on U. S. Route 30.

According to legend two road surveyors discussed whether they should stay at their present location or go on to the town of Lancaster.