Gregson Lane is a village in

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, England. It is situated between

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, Higher Walton,

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and

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, and is within four miles of the city of Preston. Most of the village is in an unparished area of

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borough and Ribble Valley parliamentary constituency. However, a small part of the village lies in Brindle civil parish in the

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and Chorley parliamentary constituency. The village is situated in the

Hoghton Hoghton is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 802. Brindle and Hoghton ward also includes the parish of Brindle. Hoghton Tower is a fortified manor hous ...

postal district, as the Royal Mail does not recognise it as a separate village; this postal district also includes

and Hoghton is often called the village of two halves by residents. Despite this, it is administratively and geographically separate. The village is in the Gregson Lane & Coupe Green

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which elects two

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s. At the May 2011 election, Jim Marsh and Warren Bennett both from the

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party were elected.

Bus services

The bus service founded in the village in 1910 became the first service operated by the newly formed

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in 1919, which was a major operator of buses throughout Lancashire until taken over by the Stagecoach Group in the 1980s and renamed Stagecoach in Lancashire, becoming the Lancashire division of Stagecoach North West. Gregson Lane is currently served by the Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire bus no. 113. The route operates from Preston Bus Station, via Higher Walton. The service passes through Gregson Lane and continues on to

, Leyland and

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Meeting places

Gregson Lane is also known for the

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club, which started in 1988. At the village centre, there is a road called "Gregson Lane" where there are two pubs - Net's Bar (formally known as Gregson Lane Sports and Social Club) and The Black Horse. Previously, there was a pub called "The Castle", but this has now been demolished and turned into a small housing estate. Within the village, the existing Community Centre has now reached the end of its usable life, and subsequently the village is trying to raise money. This is to demolish the existing structure and build a much more suitable centre, for the benefit of all the various groups who use it.

History

St Edmund Arrowsmith ministered to Catholics of Lancashire at the Grade II* listed Arrowsmith House, located in the village, before being arrested in 1628 and questioned on Brindle Moss where his horse refused to jump a ditch. He was convicted of being a Roman Catholic priest in England and sentenced to death at

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The Black Horse
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Bus services

Meeting places

History

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