Leyland,_Lancashire Knowpia

Leyland
Leyland
Town
	Church of St Ambrose
	Leyland Shown within South Ribble Leyland Location within Lancashire
Population	35,578 (2001 census)
OS grid reference	SD549232
District	South Ribble;
Shire county	Lancashire;
Region	North West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LEYLAND
Postcode district	PR25, PR26
Dialling code	01772
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	South Ribble;
	List of places UK England Lancashire 53°41′31″N 2°41′49″W / 53.692°N 2.697°W

Leyland (/ˈleɪlənd/ LAY-lənd) is a town in South Ribble, Lancashire, England, six miles (10 km) south of Preston. The population was 35,578 at the 2011 Census.^[2]

The name of the town is Anglo-Saxon, meaning "untilled land".

HistoryEdit

St Andrews Parish Church

English Leyland was an area of fields, with Roman roads passing through, from ancient Wigan to Walton-le-Dale.

It was left undisturbed for many centuries until rediscovered shortly after the Battle of Hastings (1066). Leyland is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1085). In 1066, King Edward the Confessor presided over the whole of Leyland. The manor was divided into three large ploughlands, which were controlled by local noblemen. In the 12th century, it came under the barony of Penwortham.

The area of Worden, which is now Worden Park, was one of nine oxgangs of land granted to the Knights Hospitaller, by Roger de Lacy, in Lancashire, but the land was not assigned to any individual and a local man, who was a very close friend of de Lacy, Hugh Bussel, was assigned holder of the land in 1212.

Notable features that remain include the St Andrew's Parish Church, built around 1200 AD, and the large stone Leyland Cross, thought to date back to Saxon times.

Industry and commerceEdit

The town is famous primarily for the bus and truck manufacturer Leyland Motors, which between the 1950s and 1970s expanded and grew to own several British motor manufacturers, including British Motor Corporation, Standard-Triumph and Rover, culminating in the massive British Leyland company. The truck business still operates today as Leyland Trucks, and is owned by Paccar.

Leyland is also home to one of the leading maintenance and utility companies in the United Kingdom, Enterprise plc on Centurion Way.

The town has been home to Dr Oetkers pizza factory on Marathon Place, Moss Side, since 1989.^[3]

TransportEdit

Leyland railway station is on the West Coast Main Line and is operated by Northern. There is one train an hour between Liverpool Lime Street and Preston. There is also one train an hour between Manchester Victoria/Hazel Grove to Blackpool North.

There is a marker adjacent to the old Leyland Motors Spurrier works at the halfway point on the railway journey between Glasgow and London, some 198 miles in either direction. John Fishwick & Sons which served the town's public transport needs, and connected the town to Chorley and Preston, ceased trading in 2015 and Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire took over the route.^[4]

EducationEdit

High schoolsEdit

High schools in Leyland include Balshaw's CE High School near Leyland Cross, St Mary's Catholic High School, Worden Academy, a smaller high school situated to the west of the town and Wellfield Academy near the town centre.^[5]

CollegesEdit

To the east of Worden Park is Runshaw College.

ArchitectureEdit

Former Primitive Methodist chapel, Leyland Lane

Since July 2007, the former Primitive Methodist Church on Leyland Lane has been home to the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Apostles.^[6]

Most of the housing in Leyland falls under the semi-detached, detached and bungalow categories. There are a few modern housing estates, but about 65% of the accommodation in the town was built in the 1970s.

AreasEdit

Leyland is made up by six different areas, the town centre itself counts as the main retail side, with the railway station, library and shops nearby. The other areas include Broadfield, Moss Side, Worden Park, Turpin Green and the Wade Hall estate.

GeographyEdit

PeopleEdit

Notable people who have grown up or lived in Leyland include:

Brian Pilkington, footballer
Fred Beardsworth, footballer
William Bennett, 1920s footballer
Clarke Carlisle, footballer, was educated at Balshaw's CE High School
Trevor Hemmings, multi millionaire philanthropist spent his teenage years in Leyland^{[citation needed]}
Allen Hill, played in the first ever cricket Test
Phil Jones, footballer
John Lawton, biologist^{[citation needed]}
Frank Moss, football manager and former player, known for his six-year contract with Arsenal
Danny Mayor, footballer
Mike Salmon, retired goalkeeper, who currently works as a football manager
Kevin Simm, Liberty X singer grew up in the area and attended St Anne's Primary School and St Mary's High School
Chris Tuson, rugby league player
John Woodcock, executed by the Stuarts in 1646, for his Catholicism
Liv Cooke, football freestyler.
Tim Farron, Leader of the Liberal Democrats 2015–2017, attended Runshaw College as a teenager.^[7]

GalleryEdit

Leyland Cross
Old Police Station
South Ribble Museum
Balshaw's Grammar School
Eagle and Child pub

ReferencesEdit

^ Population of 35,578 is the sum of the following ward populations: Moss Side 3673; Earnshaw Bridge Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 3722; Golden Hill Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 3982; Seven Stars 3701; Lowerhouse 4050; Leyland St. Mary's 3562; Leyland Central Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 3626; Leyland St. Ambrose Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 3337; Leyland St. John's Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 5925. All accessed 30 September 2011.
^ "Leyland Central – UK Census Data 2011".
^ "Pizza factory planning to super-size in Leyland to grab a bigger slice of the market". 9 January 2020.
^ "John Fishwick & Sons". Fishwicks.
^ "GCSE success for Leyland students".
^ "Orthodox Church of the Holy Apostles". holy-apostles.org.uk.
^ Prince, Rosa (16 July 2015). "Tim Farron: the Christian Lefty on course to be elected Liberal Democrat leader". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

BBC Online (2006a) Schools in Lancashire, Education\League Tables, 19 January 2006 [accessed 27 June 2007]
BBC Online (2006b) Institutions in Lancashire, Education\League Tables, 19 January 2006 [accessed 4 May 2007]
Hunt, D., (1990), The History of Leyland and District, Carnegie Press, ISBN 0-948789-48-4
Hunt, D. and Waring, W. (1995), The Archive Photograph Series: Leyland, Chalford Publishing Company, ISBN 0-7524-0348-6
Smith, J., (2003), Then and Now: Leyland, Tempus Publishing, ISBN 0-7524-2672-9
South Ribble Borough Council – Leyland Town Centre Masterplan [accessed 23 April 2008]

External linksEdit

Leyland Historical Society

[1] Population of 35,578 is the sum of the following ward populations: Moss Side 3673; Earnshaw Bridge Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 3722; Golden Hill Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 3982; Seven Stars 3701; Lowerhouse 4050; Leyland St. Mary's 3562; Leyland Central Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 3626; Leyland St. Ambrose Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 3337; Leyland St. John's Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 5925. All accessed 30 September 2011.

[2] "Leyland Central – UK Census Data 2011".

[3] "Pizza factory planning to super-size in Leyland to grab a bigger slice of the market". 9 January 2020.

[4] "John Fishwick & Sons". Fishwicks.

[5] "GCSE success for Leyland students".

[6] "Orthodox Church of the Holy Apostles". holy-apostles.org.uk.

[7] Prince, Rosa (16 July 2015). "Tim Farron: the Christian Lefty on course to be elected Liberal Democrat leader". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

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