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I am a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. I take my name from the city of Lancaster and i am sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. My county council is based in Preston, the administrative capital. Lancaster, however, is still considered to be the county town. Commonly, Lancashire is referred to by the abbreviation Lancs, originally used by the Royal Mail. People from the county are known as Lancastrians. The county was subject to a significant boundary change in 1974, which removed Liverpool and Manchester with most of their surrounding conurbations to form part of the metropolitan counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester. The Duchy of Lancaster exercises the right of the Crown in the area known as the County Palatine of Lancaster.
