Everything about Goosnargh totally explained
Goosnargh is a village and
civil parish on the north side of
Preston,
Lancashire,
England. The village lies between
Broughton and
Longridge, and is adjacent to
Whittingham.
The name appears to derive from
Gosan or
Gusan (an
Old Irish personal name) and
erg (
Norse for "hill pasture"), the name appearing in the
Domesday Book as "Gusansarghe"
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The nearby
Chingle Hall is purported to be the most haunted place in Lancashire, and
Whittingham Hospital (now closed) was once a
mental hospital. Although Whittingham Hospital is closed there's a category B secure unit located in the old Whittingham Hospital grounds called the Guild Lodge.
Goosnargh is home to three pubs that are popular amongst local residents and passers by,
The Grapes located on Church Lane,
The Bushells located on Church Lane and
The Stags Head on
Whittingham Lane.
There is also a
Post Office, newsagents, off licence, fish and chip shop, gift shop and estate agents in the village.
The village holds an annual festival on the first Saturday after the Spring Bank Holiday Monday during which there's a procession through the village. The procession includes decorated floats, fancy dress, maypole dancing and marching bands.
The village gave its name to
Goosnargh Cakes, a type of
caraway seed
shortcake biscuit.
Goosnargh parish includes the small villages of
Inglewhite and
Whitechapel, and
Beacon Fell Country Park.
The name "Goosnargh" appears in the works of
Douglas Adams. In
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, it's a
Betelgeusian word used by
Ford Prefect "when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be". Alternatively, in
The Meaning of Liff, his comic dictionary based on
British place names, it's defined as "Something left over from preparing or eating a meal, which you store in the fridge despite the fact that you know full well you'll never ever use it".
The
Royal Observer Corps 21 Group Headquarters and the Western Sector Control of the
United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation used to be located on Langley Lane, on the border of the parishes of Goosnargh and
Whittingham. In the large underground nuclear bunker was the standby national control of the famous
Four Minute Warning air raid warning system for the UK. The ROC and UKWMO were disbanded beween 1991 and 1995 and the nuclear bunker was closed.
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