Leyland

Leyland is a town in the South Ribble ward, in the region of Lancashire, England. It is roughly six miles 10 km south of the city of Preston. The number of inhabitants in the town was assessed as 35,600 at the 2011 Census. All through the 20th and 21st century, the network has seen a substantial development in industry, populace and cultivating, because of the foundation of Leyland Motors, lodging advancements and the encompassing usable arable land.

The name of the town is of old Anglo-Saxon starting point, signifying "untilled land". English Leyland was a region of fields, with Roman streets going through, from old Wigan to Walton-le-Dale. It was left undisturbed for a long time until rediscovered not long after the Battle of Hastings 1066. Leyland is specified in the Domesday Book 1085. In 1066, King Edward the Confessor managed the entire of Leyland.

The estate was partitioned into three substantial ploughlands, which were controlled by neighborhood aristocrats. In the twelfth century, it went under the barony of Penwortham. The zone of Worden, or, in other words Park, was one of nine oxgangs of land allowed to the Knights Hospitaller, by Roger de Lacy, in Lancashire, yet the land was not doled out to any individual and a nearby man, who was a dear companion of de Lacy, Hugh Bussel, was allocated holder of the land in 1212.