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A geographically large area of the county is served by Lancashire County Council, although this serves the [[Forest of Bowland]] in Yorkshire as well and excludes more than half of the county's population.
A geographically large area of the county is served by Lancashire County Council, although this serves the [[Forest of Bowland]] in Yorkshire as well and excludes more than half of the county's population.
== History ==
== History ==
Ptolemy (c. 150 AD) recorded modern-day Lancashire as being within the territory of the British Celtic tribe the [[Brigantes]]. The [[Roman]] occupation of Britain lasted from 43 AD to c. 410 AD and evidence for a Roman presence in what is now Lancashire is strong; indeed, following the post-Roman introduction of Old English to Britain (spoken 5th-11th centuries), many Lancashire place-names were suffixed with the Old English ''-ceaster'' (now ''-caster'', ''-chester''), denoting a Roman fort, with the Roman-era Latin forms sometimes appearing on record. Such names include [[Lancaster]], [[Manchester]] and [[Ribchester]]. In addition, the Roman settlement ''Coccium'' may have become Wigan (whose name may indicate Latin ''vicus'').
In the early 1070s, a few years after the [[Normans|Norman conquest]] in 1066, the land between the Ribble and Mersey, with the addition of Amounderness, was granted by [[William the Conqueror]] to [[Roger of Poitou]]. On the order of Roger of Poitou, [[motte-and-bailey]] [[castle]] was built at [[Penwortham]] (immediately south of the River Ribble from Preston), to guard the Ribble estuary and a ford crossing the river.
In the early 1070s, a few years after the [[Normans|Norman conquest]] in 1066, the land between the Ribble and Mersey, with the addition of Amounderness, was granted by [[William the Conqueror]] to [[Roger of Poitou]]. On the order of Roger of Poitou, [[motte-and-bailey]] [[castle]] was built at [[Penwortham]] (immediately south of the River Ribble from Preston), to guard the Ribble estuary and a ford crossing the river.