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| Leyland is also home to a selection of public houses. The Ship is situated along with The Gables in the centre of the small town. The Leyland Gates, having undergone several name changes over the past few years, provides meal deals and beer gardens surrounding it. Across town, The Eagle And Child is a favourite among the older generation (and gradually the younger). Serving real ales and a large food selection. Down the road, on one side of the Leyland Cross, the newly revamped Roebuck. In competition across the road, the Fox and Lion holds territory on the corner of Fox Lane. | |||
| Nearing the top of Fox Lane, stands ]. Named by resident Fox and Lion drinker '''''Ste Bibby''''' as a joke one evening when he cried, under the alcoholic influence "Whose crossing the threshold of Bibby Towers tonight?!" This creative invite for a simple after hours drink at his home was taken quite literally, and has been for three years, an entertaining establishment for a party. Unfortunately, after three annual events, the house (owned by his parents!) is now to be given peace at last. The legacy lives on and is often used on smaller, less grand occasions such as a Real Ale Sampling. | |||
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Template:GBdot Leyland is a town in the borough of South Ribble, Lancashire, United Kingdom, approximately 9 miles south of Preston. Population of the entire South Ribble area is 103,900 (Source 2001 Census).
Notable features include St Andrew's parish church, built around 1200AD and a stone cross thought to date back to Saxon times.
The town is famous primarily for the bus and truck manufacturer Leyland Motors, which between the '50s and '70s expanded and grew to own several motor British motor manufacturers, including BMC, Standard-Triumph, and Rover, culminating in the massive British Leyland.
Although BL was progressively broken up in the 1980s, a series of mergers and buy-outs has seen the truck-making side of the firm survive, and the town still produces about 14,000 trucks per year, and the truck building industry is still the town's primary employer. Leyland is now home to the national maintenance and utility firm Enterprise Plc, and the largest Tesco supermarket in Lancashire.
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