Lancaster, picturesque town near the mouth of the Lune, 50 m. NW. of Manchester, is the county town of Lancashire, and manufactures furniture, cotton, machinery, and railway plant; it was disfranchised in 1867 for corrupt practices.
Population (circa 1900) given as 31,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Lancashire * Lancaster, Joseph