Talk:Leyland, Lancashire

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Because of the large number of articles beginning "Leyland" I suggest that the article aboout the town be moved to Leyland, England and that Leyland becomes a disambiguation page. 82.21.65.109 19:47, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

No objections received so I will go ahead. 82.21.65.109 08:54, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the disambiguation. However it is convention to use the system of "Town, Ceremonial County" when disambiguating English settlements. I have thus moved it to Leyland, Lancashire. Jhamez84 22:26, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Population 2 Changes to Hough Lane 3 Leyland is midway between Glasgow and London? 4 Etymology 5 Schools

[edit] Population

The population of Leyland is neither around 40,000 or 103,000 (which is actually the population of the whole of the South Ribble Borough).

I added together the census 2001 populations of all the Leyland wards and got a total of 16,450. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.44.44.133 (talk) 02:45, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

• That total only includes the wards with Leyland in the name. I've added all wards together (including Moss Side, but not Farington) and reached a total of 35,578. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 22:33, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Leyland Central, Leyland St Ambrose, Leyland St Mary's and Leyland St John's add up to 16,450. The other wards in Leyland are: Earnshaw Bridge, Seven Stars, Golden Hill, Lowerhouse and Moss Side. On South Ribble council's website[1] St John's is missing, this has probably been split into two (maybe adding bits from outside Leyland) so I'll subtract that from my previous total; the result is 29,653. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 22:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changes to Hough Lane

...is it worth adding a section for the up and coming new development of Hough Lane into this? Currently going through a public consultation... MrPloppy2 (talk) 12:59, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Added a little bit about the Hough Lane changes. MrPloppy2 (talk) 11:23, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Leyland is midway between Glasgow and London?

Just checked this fact on Google maps, and a direct line between the City of London and Glasgow gives a midway point of somewhere east of Manchester, near Bacup to be precise. Can you put a reference to this, please?

MrPloppy2 (talk) 12:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

• Leyland is closer to Glasgow by road or rail, according to rail timetables and transportdirect.info, so I'm not sure how it's exactly halfway between the two. I'll remove this as it appears to be inaccurate. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 22:52, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Also in the article: "a marker adjacent to the old Leyland Motors Spurrier works declares the halfway point on the railway journey between Glasgow and London, some 198 miles in either direction."

I think this is correct, however the halfway point is apparently the other side of Leyland. I'm not sure where in London and Glasgow the marker refers to. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 23:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

Leyland - flat or untilled land. I was under the impression that leyland came from "lay-land" - the land of the laypoeple. This is as a complement from the nearest large town of Preston, which comes from "priest-town" 81.155.242.97 (talk) 19:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Schools

The recent change to remove Wellfields is a little strange. The fact it is the first in the country to have a wind turbine is a great fact, which should be on here. Also, Balshaws is mentioned in the above paragraph. I see no reason for it's exclusion. A list of the major schools in Leyland is important.

I will revert the text if no-one objects. MrPloppy2 (talk) 11:04, 23 April 2008 (UTC)