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    Leyland (/ˈleɪlənd/ LAY-lənd) is a town in South Ribble, Lancashire, England, 6 miles (10 km) south of Preston. The population was 35,578 at the 2011...
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    when the Sumner and Spurrier families founded the Lancashire Steam Motor Company in the town of Leyland in North West England. Their first products included...
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  • Leyland Trucks is a medium- and heavy-duty truck manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire, United Kingdom. It can trace its origins back to the original...
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    Blackburn Leyland Salford West Derby The Leyland Hundred (also known as Leylandshire) is a historic subdivision of the English county of Lancashire. It covered...
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  • Leyland may refer to: Leyland, Lancashire, an English town Leyland Hundred, an hundred of Lancashire, England Leyland, Alberta, a community in Canada...
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    Leyland Bus was a British bus manufacturer based in Farington, Lancashire. It emerged from the Rover Group, formerly known as British Leyland, as a management...
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  • Paccar Leyland Trucks 27 June 2018 Revamped testing facility opens in Leyland Lancashire Evening Post 1 October 2015 Millbrook acquires Leyland Technical...
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  • British Leyland was a British automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following...
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    South Ribble (category Non-metropolitan districts of Lancashire)
    borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Leyland. The borough also includes the towns and villages of Penwortham, Leyland, Farington,...
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    Greater Manchester. The Central Lancashire urban area includes the city of Preston and the towns of Penwortham, Leyland and Chorley. A short distance east...
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  • Leyland is a town in the South Ribble district of Lancashire, England. It contains 46 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England...
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    HM Prison Wymott (category Prisons in Lancashire)
    HM Prison Wymott is a Category C men's prison near Leyland, Lancashire, England. Wymott is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and is next to HMP...
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  • Runshaw College (category Leyland, Lancashire)
    would sell the campus to Lancashire Constabulary and move the courses that were held there to the main Leyland campus. Lancashire Constabulary plan to turn...
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  • Park, Leyland, Lancashire, England USS Worden, several ships Worden High School and Worden Sports College, former names of Academy@Worden, Leyland, Lancashire...
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  • Danny Mayor (category People from Leyland, Lancashire)
    Wednesday, Southend United, Bury and Plymouth Argyle Mayor was born in Leyland, Lancashire. According to then manager Gary Peters, he revealed that Mayor joined...
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    Ashley Dalton (category People from Leyland, Lancashire)
    on 15 August 1972 and raised in Leyland, South Ribble, in Lancashire. Her father worked on the factory floor at Leyland Motors, and later set up his own...
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    Liv Cooke (category People from Leyland, Lancashire)
    the first time at St Andrews Infant School in her local town of Leyland, Lancashire. This was quickly followed by her first professional event, where...
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    The Leyland Comet was a long running badge used by Leyland for a series of trucks (and the occasional bus) intended mainly for export markets. The name...
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  • Broadfield, Hertfordshire Broadfield, Leyland, Lancashire, a United Kingdom location Broadfield, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, a United Kingdom location Broadfield...
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    football stadium in Leyland, Lancashire, England, which is owned and operated by Lancashire County Football Association (Lancashire FA). It is the home...
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    stonemason and a well-respected professional cricketer for Moorside in Lancashire. Leyland senior also acted as Moorside's groundsman, and in later years continued...
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    British Commercial Vehicle Museum (category Leyland, Lancashire)
    The museum is located in King Street, Leyland, Lancashire on part of a site previously occupied by the Leyland Motors factory, the source of many exhibits...
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    The Leyland Band is a brass band based in Lancashire in the UK. The Leyland Band was established in 1946 in the heart of industrial Lancashire as the Leyland...
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  • Ewood Park in Blackburn on 11 May 2006. The Lancashire FA are based at the County Ground, Thurston Road in Leyland. They moved their headquarters to the County...
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    The Leyland 4-tonne truck was produced by Leyland Trucks in Lancashire. It was developed for the British Army and won the competition to replace a fleet...
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    Leyland railway station serves the town of Leyland in Lancashire, England. It was formerly "Golden Hill", the name of the street and area in which the...
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  • Greg Holden (category People from Leyland, Lancashire)
    he was three. The family then moved to Lancashire in England, and he was raised in Morecambe and then Leyland. He went to St. Patrick's Primary School...
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  • Kay Purcell (category People from Leyland, Lancashire)
    February 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2015. "Kay's back home for Christmas". Lancashire Post. Retrieved 18 December 2015. "TV star Kay Purcell courageously shares...
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  • Trevor Hemmings (category People from Leyland, Lancashire)
    Second World War, part of the Royal Ordnance was relocated to Euxton, Lancashire, and the family moved there when he was aged five. Hemmings began work...
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    High School in Cardiff. Saunders then studied at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire. She read law at the University of Leeds from 1979 to 1982. She graduated...
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