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The York and Lancaster Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1968. The regiment was created in the Childers Reforms of 1881 by the amalgamation of the 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot and the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot. The regiment saw service in many small ...
Rainhill Hospital. / 53.4256; -2.7647. Rainhill Hospital was a very large psychiatric hospital complex that was located in Rainhill, Merseyside, England . Founded in 1851 as the then Third Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum, the hospital was repeatedly expanded until the 1980's when a mixture of administrative changes and changes in policy saw ...
St Lawrence's Church, Barton. St Lawrence's Church is in Garstang Road, Barton, Preston, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn. The church was built in 1895–96, and was designed by R. Knill Freeman. It is constructed in sandstone, and consists of a nave, aisles, a chancel and a southwest ...
The 5th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Territorial Force formed in 1908 from Volunteer units originally raised in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1860. It served in some of the bitterest fighting on the Western Front during World War I, including the Somme, Ypres and the German spring offensive.
Rochdale. 83. (23) 2001–2003. Hednesford Town. *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4 January 2008. Graham Lancashire (born 19 October 1972, Blackpool) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his career in the north-west of England.
The Red Rose of Lancaster ( blazoned: a rose gules) was the heraldic badge adopted by the royal House of Lancaster in the 14th century. In modern times it symbolises the county of Lancashire. The exact species or cultivar which it represents is thought to be Rosa gallica officinalis . John of Gaunt 's younger brother Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke ...
Tobruk. Chindits. The 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment was an infantry battalion of the British Army created in 1881 by the redesignation of the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot in 1881. The battalion was in existence from 1881 until 1948, when it amalgamated with the 1st Battalion .
Lancaster Roman Fort, also known as Wery Wall, Galacum or Calunium, [citation needed] is the modern name given to ruined former Roman fort atop Castle Hill in Lancaster in North West England. The first castra was founded c. 80 AD within the Roman province of Britannia .