Lancashire
About Lancashire
Lancashire is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south and the Irish Sea to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Preston.
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In Lancashire there was a sport called purring, a form of shin-kicking where two men held each other's shoulders and kicked with heavy clogs until one shouted 'sufficient'.
from 446: No Such Thing As A Ninja Wearing Clogs · read transcript
More facts about Lancashire
A burnt golf ball was sent to Kew Gardens from Lancashire in 1952 as a joke, and no one can work out which Lancashire golf course it came from.
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Lancashire cricket club once got Rolls-Royce to dry their pitch using a Gloster Meteor jet engine strapped to a lorry; it burned about 400 gallons of fuel an hour.
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Coordinates: 53.8000, -2.6000