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The West Lancashire Coastal Plain is a large area in the south west of Lancashire, England The plain stretches from the Rimrose Valley in Seaforth , near Liverpool on the Mersey , to the south, to Preston on the Ribble , to the north.
The Fylde (/ ˈ f aɪ l d /) is a coastal plain in western Lancashire, England.It is roughly a 13-mile-long (21-kilometre) square-shaped peninsula, bounded by Morecambe Bay to the north, the Ribble estuary to the south, the Irish Sea to the west, and the foot of the Bowland hills to the east which approximates to a section of the M6 motorway and West Coast Main Line.
West Lancashire is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England.The council is based in Ormskirk, and the largest town is Skelmersdale.The district borders Fylde to the north, over the Ribble Estuary; South Ribble, Chorley, and Wigan to the east; St Helens and Knowsley to the south; and Sefton to the south and west.
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In the west of the county, the West Lancashire basin is in effect a landward extension of the East Irish Sea Basin. The area is threaded by numerous broadly north-south aligned normal faults thought to have been active during Permo-Triassic times and perhaps later, in association with early rifting of the Atlantic Ocean. [9]
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The west of Lancashire contains flat coastal plains: the West Lancashire coastal plain to the south and the Fylde in the centre. The north-western coast is hilly and contains part of Arnside and Silverdale , a national landscape .
The Pennines are fringed by extensive lowlands including the Eden Valley, West Lancashire Coastal Plain, Cheshire Plain, Vale of York, Humberhead Levels and the Midland Plains. Scenery in the Forest of Bowland. The main range of the Pennines start from its southern end at the Weaver Hills in the Peak District. [25]