Lancashire Tourist Guide - Articles

The history of Lancashire can be traced back for many hundreds of years, through periods of war and suffering and through periods of innovation, industrialisation and great prosperity. Lancashire is also a geographically diverse county with vast open expanses of the most beautiful countryside such as that in the Forest of Bowland, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covering some 312 square miles, and over 80 miles of coastline stretching from Arnside in the North to Southport in the South.

These historical and geographical characteristics bring with them a great deal of human history and much of this is documented and placed on display in the many Lancashire Museums.

Museums such as the Fleetwood Museum in Fleetwood and the Lancashire Maritime Museum in Lancaster provide vivid displays of our maritime past. While our industrial past is on display at museums such as the Queen Street Textile Museum in Burnley and the Helmshore Mills Textile Museum in the Rossendale Valley. Images and artefacts of war and civil unrest can be found at museums such as the Museum of Lancashire in Preston or at Lancaster Castle in Lancaster.

As well as the distant past Lancashire Museums also have our recent sporting past covered, in the form of the National Football Museum in Preston. Based at the home of Preston North End Football Club the National Football Museum has many wonderful exhibits charting the history of the beautiful game and it’s major competitions such as the FA Cup.

To find out more details about the museums in the region click here for a full list of Lancashire Museums.