Lancashire Dialect and Accent - Survey of English Dialect Sites

Survey of English Dialect Sites

The Survey of English Dialects took recordings from fourteen sites in Lancashire:

  • Bickerstaffe, west Lancashire
  • Cartmel, modern south Cumbria,
  • Coniston, modern south Cumbria
  • Dolphinholme, near Lancaster
  • Eccleston. There were two villages in south Lancashire named "Eccleston". The one in the survey is in modern-day Lancashire.
  • Fleetwood
  • Halewood, near Liverpool. Would usually be classified as Scouse rather than Lancastrian.
  • Harwood, near Bolton
  • Marshside, Southport
  • Pilling, Fylde coast
  • Read, near Burnley
  • Ribchester, between Blackburn and Preston
  • Thistleton, on the Fylde near Blackpool
  • Yealand, near Lancaster

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