Rural landscape, Preston, Lancashire, UK. Fields, trees, fruit trees; orchard; coutnryside; green vegetation; green grass;

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Lancashire was founded in the 12th century; in the Domesday Book of 1086 much of what would become the county is treated as part of Yorkshire and Cheshire. Until the Early Modern period the county was a comparatively poor backwater, although in 1351 it became a palatine, with a semi-independent judicial system. This changed during the Industrial Revolution, when the county rapidly industrialised;

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Size: 4288px × 2848px
Location: Hutton, Preston, Lancashire
Photo credit: © Grazyna Bonati / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: areas, british, countryside, english, fields, fruit, grass, green, lancashire, landscape, orchard, preston, rural, scene, trees, uk., vegetation