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Leyland occurs as town in the borough of South Ribble, Lancashire, United Kingdom, approximately Nine miles south of Preston. People of the entire South Ribble vicinity is 103,900 (Source 2001 Nose count).

Notable features include St Andrew's parish church, built about 1200AD & the stone cross thought to date back to Saxon days. These are likewise residence to Bibby Towers.

A town is notable primarily for the bus & truck manufacturer Leyland Motors, which between the '50s & '70s expanded & grew to have many drive British drive manufacturers, including BMC, Standard-Triumph, and Rover, culminating in the massive British Leyland.

Although BL was more & more broken higher in a Eighties, a series of mergers & purchase-outs has seen a truck-making side of a house endure, & the town however produces just about 14,000 trucks by the month, and the truck building industry is however the town's primary employer. Leyl& is okay, front yard to a national maintenance & utility hard Enterprise Plc, and the big Tesco supermarket inside Lancashire.

Leyland railway station is on the West Coast Main Line

These are indecipherable whenever Leyland means "flat" or even "unstilled land", or even has another meaning.

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