AI automation across South Ribble.
We work with businesses in all 39 towns and villages in the district.
Towns in South Ribble
Leyland
Population 35,578
Home of Leyland Trucks (owned by Paccar), the Dr. Oetker pizza factory and Enterprise plc; its Leyland Motors heritage is recorded...
Penwortham
Population 22,570
Commuter town across the Ribble from Preston; Penwortham Hall was built in 1801 by John Horrocks, founder of Preston's cotton indu...
Bamber Bridge
Site of the first calico printing anywhere in Lancashire, established by 1764; now largely residential with shops concentrated on...
Farington
Population 7,868
Leyland Trucks has its HQ and assembly plant here, making it the area's dominant employer.
Longton
Population 7,752
Former brickmaking village; Longton Brickcroft, the old brickworks, is now a nature reserve.
Lostock Hall
Population 6,138
Former Tardy Gate Mill (calico and linen) and one of Britain's final steam locomotive sheds, closed 1968; the mill buildings now h...
Walton-le-Dale
Population 3,792
The Capitol Centre retail and leisure park was built on the site of the former Flats Mills; the village also hosts a park-and-ride...
Villages and smaller places we also cover
These are served from the same team on the same terms. They are listed here rather than given a page each, because a page that only restates the district page helps nobody.
Hutton
Home of Lancashire Constabulary headquarters, built on the former site of Hutton Hall, and of Hutton Church of...
New Longton
Commuter village built out from the 1940s; it lost its railway station in the 1960s and relies on buses to Lon...
Little Hoole
Predominantly a farming community apart from the village of Walmer Bridge within the parish.
Much Hoole
Horticultural parish with acres of greenhouses; Jeremiah Horrocks observed the 1639 transit of Venus while cur...
Samlesbury
BAE Systems Samlesbury and its aerodrome dominate employment, alongside an InBev brewery completed in 1972 and...
Broadfield
One of Leyland's six named areas.
Coupe Green
Small village with a primary school, one pub and a few shops; Royal Mail does not recognise it separately and...
Cuerdale
Rural riverside parish where the Viking-era Cuerdale Hoard was found.
Earnshaw Bridge
Farington Moss
Part of Farington civil parish and, with Lostock Hall and Tardy Gate, one of the borough's 'Central Villages'.
Golden Hill
Gregson Lane
Higher Penwortham
The 1920s-onward semi-detached half of Penwortham on the higher ground above the Ribble
Higher Walton
Grew around a 19th-century cotton mill and was formerly known as Moon's Mill.
Howick Cross
Kingsfold
Housing estate area of Penwortham.
Lower Penwortham
Victorian terraced quarter of Penwortham along Leyland Road
Lowerhouse
Mellor Brook
Village on the A59 straddling the South Ribble and Ribble Valley boundary, close to the BAE Systems Samlesbury...
Middleforth Green
Historically significant as the site of the ford crossing the River Ribble into Preston.
Midge Hall
Has an animal feed mill and the test track used for cars and wagons from the Leyland Trucks factory.
Moss Side
Nabs Head
Countryside hamlet in Samlesbury parish, best known for the Nabs Head inn and the walking route to Hoghton Bot...
Samlesbury Bottoms
Mill hamlet on the River Darwen at the south end of Samlesbury; the 19th-century cotton mill now manufactures...
Seven Stars
Tardy Gate
Named after Tardy Gate Mill; one of the borough's 'Central Villages' alongside Lostock Hall and Farington Moss...
Turpin Green
One of Leyland's six named areas.
Wade Hall
A Leyland housing estate and one of the town's six named areas.
Walmer Bridge
Local service centre with two pubs, shops, a luxury car distributor, a financial advisor and an ambulance stat...
Walton Summit
Industrial estate developed by the Central Lancashire New Town Development Corporation, served by the M6, M61...
Whitestake
Split across parish boundaries, with part falling inside Farington civil parish.
Worden
One of Leyland's six named areas, centred on Worden Park.
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