Downholland Cross is a small village in the civil parish of
Downholland in the county of
Lancashire
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on the
West Lancashire Coastal Plain
The West Lancashire Coastal Plain is a large area in the south west of Lancashire, England.
The plain stretches from the Rimrose Valley in Seaforth, near Liverpool on the Mersey, to the south, to Preston on the Ribble, to the north. To the e ...
in England. It is to the north of
Lydiate on the
A5147 and the
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.
Over a distance of , crossing the Pennines, and including 91 locks on the main line. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal has several small branc ...
.
The Downholland cross was reinstated by the Parish Council on the suggestion of Stephen Henders, parish councillor at the time, to mark the millennium. As 'Downholland', the village was noted in the Domesday Book.
See also
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Listed buildings in Downholland
*
Downholland
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20050410001109/http://www.downhollandpc.org.uk/history.html
Villages in Lancashire
Geography of the Borough of West Lancashire
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