Penwortham
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Penwortham () is a town and civil parish in South Ribble, Lancashire, England, on the south bank of the River Ribble facing the city of Preston. The town is at the most westerly crossing point of the river, with major road and rail links crossing it here. The population of the town at the 2021 Census was 22,570.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Penwortham
- UK place.map_type
- Lancashire
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.population
- 22,570
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SD524290
- UK place.post_town
- PRESTON
- UK place.postcode_area
- PR
- UK place.postcode_district
- PR1
- UK place.dial_code
- 01772
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South Ribble
- UK place.civil_parish
- Penwortham
- UK place.shire_district
- South Ribble
- UK place.shire_county
- Lancashire
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary's Church, Penwortham.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St. Mary's Church
- UK place.pushpin_map
- United Kingdom Borough of South Ribble
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Penwortham () is a town and civil parish in South Ribble, Lancashire, England, on the south bank of the River Ribble facing the city of Preston. The town is at the most westerly crossing point of the river, with major road and rail links crossing it here. The population of the town at the 2021 Census was 22,570.
==History== The distinctive town name is derived from Celtic and Anglo Saxon origins, it is a hybrid of the Welsh pen, meaning hill and the Old English word worphamm, meaning enclosed homestead, with earlier names of Peneverdant and Pendrecham (1200); Penwrtham (1204); Penuertham (1212); Penwortham (1260) and Penewrthamn (1292).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Penwortham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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