22-626: Leyland may refer to: Places [ edit ] Leyland, Lancashire , an English town Leyland Hundred , an hundred of Lancashire, England Leyland, Alberta , a community in Canada Companies [ edit ] Leyland Line , a shipping company Automotive manufacturers [ edit ] Leyland Motors , a defunct vehicle manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire Ashok Leyland , an Indian company British Leyland ,
44-462: A British band Leyland cypress , a tree Leyland number , a set of numbers named after Paul Leyland See also [ edit ] Layland (disambiguation) Leeland (disambiguation) Leland (disambiguation) Leyland Titan (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Leyland . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
66-1095: A defunct vehicle manufacturer Leyland Bus , a defunct bus manufacturer List of Leyland buses Leyland DAF , a defunct commercial vehicle manufacturer Leyland Trucks , a medium and heavy duty truck manufacturer based in Leyland Leyland Eight , a luxury car Leyland P76 , a car People [ edit ] Carl Sonny Leyland (born 1965), English pianist Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892), English shipowner Jim Leyland (born 1944), American baseball manager Joseph Bentley Leyland (1811-1851), English sculptor Kellie-Ann Leyland (born 1986), British footballer Mal Leyland (born 1945), Australian explorer and film-maker Maurice Leyland (1900-1967), English cricketer Mike Leyland (1941-2009), Australian explorer and film-maker Paul Leyland , British mathematician Paul Leyland (rugby league) (born 1986), English rugby league player Winston Leyland (born 1940), British-American author Other [ edit ] Leyland Band ,
88-538: A shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until coming into its powers on 1 April 1974. Since 1974 political control of the council has been as follows: The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in South Ribble. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council . The leaders since 2007 have been: Following the 2023 election and a subsequent change of allegiance in February 2024,
110-644: Is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire , England. Its council is based in Leyland . The borough also includes the towns and villages of Penwortham , Leyland, Farington, Hutton, Longton, Walmer Bridge, Salmesbury, Lostock Hall , Walton le Dale and Bamber Bridge . Many of the built-up areas in the borough form part of the wider Preston built-up area . The neighbouring districts are Preston , Ribble Valley , Blackburn with Darwen , Chorley , West Lancashire and Fylde . The district
132-521: Is a marker adjacent to the old Leyland Motors Spurrier works at the halfway point on the railway journey between Glasgow and London, some 198 miles in either direction. John Fishwick & Sons which served the town's public transport needs, and connected the town to Chorley and Preston , ceased trading in 2015 and Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire took over the route. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North West and ITV Granada . Television signals are received from
154-593: Is a town in South Ribble , Lancashire , England, 6 miles (10 km) south of Preston . The population was 35,578 at the 2011 Census. The name of the town is Anglo-Saxon , meaning "untilled land". Leyland was an area of fields, with Roman roads passing through, from ancient Wigan to Walton-le-Dale . It is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1085). In 1066, King Edward the Confessor presided over
176-499: Is based in Leyland, at the Civic Centre on West Paddock. Leyland was an ancient parish . In 1863 the parish was made a local government district , governed by a local board. Such local government districts were reconstituted as urban districts in 1894. Leyland Urban District was abolished in 1974 to become part of the new borough of South Ribble. No successor parish was created for the former urban district and so Leyland
198-644: Is directly administered by South Ribble Borough Council. Shortly before its abolition, the urban district council had built itself a new headquarters on West Paddock, which subsequently became the South Ribble Civic Centre. Leyland railway station is on the West Coast Main Line and is operated by Northern . There is one train an hour between Liverpool Lime Street and Preston . There is also one train an hour from Manchester Victoria / Hazel Grove to Blackpool North . There
220-575: The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Apostles. Most of the residential dwellings in Leyland falls are semi-detached , detached and bungalows . There are a few modern housing estates , but about 65% of the accommodation in the town was built in the 1970s. There are two tiers of local government covering Leyland, at district and county level: South Ribble Borough Council and Lancashire County Council . The borough council
242-529: The Winter Hill transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Lancashire on 103.9 FM, Heart North West on 96.9 FM, Smooth North West on 100.4 FM, Capital Manchester and Lancashire on 106.5 FM, Greatest Hits Radio Lancashire on 96.5 FM, Central Radio North West , an DAB station and Radio Leyland, a community based station which is broadcast on 104.8 FM. The Lancashire Telegraph and Lancashire Evening Post are main newspapers that cover
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#1732773120670264-452: The composition of the council was: The next election is due in 2027. Since the last boundary changes in 2015 the council has comprised 50 councillors representing 23 wards , with each ward electing two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years. The borough straddles the parliamentary constituencies of Ribble Valley and South Ribble . The council is based at the Civic Centre on West Paddock in Leyland. The building
286-436: The large Tesco Extra supermarket and adjacent car park. The Anglican church of St Ambrose, on Moss Lane, is a Grade II listed building dating from 1882-85 by Charles Aldridge and Charles Deacon. It is constructed of stone and has green slate roofs with red ridge tiles. It is in a mixed Early English and early French Gothic style. Since July 2007, the former Primitive Methodist Church on Leyland Lane has been home to
308-516: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leyland&oldid=1243491475 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Leyland, Lancashire Leyland ( / ˈ l eɪ l ən d / LAY -lənd )
330-512: The massive British Leyland company. The truck business still operates today as Leyland Trucks , and is owned by Paccar . Leyland is also home to one of the leading maintenance and utility companies in the United Kingdom, Enterprise plc on Centurion Way. The town has been home to the Dr. Oetker pizza factory on Marathon Place, Moss Side , since 1989. The town centre is dominated by
352-777: The railway station, library and shops nearby. The other areas include Broadfield, Moss Side , Worden Park , Turpin Green and the Wade Hall estate. Having been joined by Clayton Brook, draining the village of the same name to the east, after skirting Lostock Hall , the River Lostock flows south west, past Farington and through the western suburbs of the Leyland, collecting Mill Brook (from Worden Park ) and Hollin's Brook (draining Runshaw Moor), before moving west towards Croston . Notable people who have grown up or lived in Leyland include: South Ribble South Ribble
374-416: The title of mayor. South Ribble Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Lancashire County Council . Parts of the borough are covered by civil parishes , which form a third tier of local government. The council has been under Labour majority control since the 2023 election . The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating as
396-405: The town. High schools in Leyland include Balshaw's CE High School near Leyland Cross, St Mary's Catholic High School , Worden Academy , a smaller high school situated to the west of the town and Wellfield Academy near the town centre. To the east of Worden Park is Runshaw College . Leyland is made up by six different areas, the town centre itself counts as the main retail side, with
418-475: The whole of Leyland. The manor was divided into three large ploughlands, which were controlled by local noblemen. In the 12th century, it came under the barony of Penwortham . The area of Worden, which is now Worden Park , was one of nine oxgangs of land granted to the Knights Hospitaller , by Roger de Lacy , in Lancashire , but the land was not assigned to any individual and a local man, who
440-579: Was a very close friend of de Lacy, Hugh Bussel, was assigned holder of the land in 1212. Notable features that remain include the St Andrew's Parish Church , built around 1200 AD, and the large stone Leyland Cross, thought to date back to Saxon times . The town is famous primarily for the bus and truck manufacturer Leyland Motors , which between the 1950s and 1970s expanded and grew to own several British motor manufacturers, including British Motor Corporation , Standard-Triumph and Rover , culminating in
462-433: Was built in the early 1970s for the former Leyland Urban District Council. There are eight civil parishes in the borough. The parish council for Penwortham has declared its parish to be a town, allowing it to take the style "town council". The parishes of Samlesbury and Cuerdale share a grouped parish council. The former urban districts of Leyland and Walton-le-Dale are unparished areas . The parishes are: South Ribble
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#1732773120670484-530: Was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , covering the whole area of two former districts and parts of a third, which were abolished at the same time: The new district was named South Ribble, reflecting the fact that the River Ribble forms its northern boundary. The new district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take
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