But doesn’t it annoy you when people from outside the area get the wrong end of the stick, or don’t appreciate the Red Rose county in all it’s glory?
Here we look at 15 things visitors to Lancashire regularly get wrong, and the background to it.
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13. Not realising the monarch is also the Duke of Lancaster
The reigning monarch is referred to as "Duke of Lancaster" because the Duchy of Lancaster, an estate of land and property, was created in 1265 and has been inherited by the monarch since Henry IV ascended the throne in 1399, becoming a distinct entity separate from the Crown Estate. | Getty Images
14. Thinking we still speak in a certain way
While its true that many Lancastrians still use dialect words, they are nowhere near as frequent as they used to be. If you said something was 'Reet gradely', or that you'll 'go to the foot of our stairs', you'd have the modern Lancastrian scratching their head. The word 'baggin' (a break) is on it's way out too, but we still say things like 'chuffed' and in Preston, 'cha'. | submit
15. Thinking places like Bolton and Bury are still Lancashire
The historic county of Lancashire extends from Barrow-in-Furness to the River Mersey, has a population of over 5 million and covers more than 2,000 square miles, making it the most populous county in England outside of London. But in the 1970s it was seen as administratively too large and there was a government reorganisation in 1974, creating "new counties" which were meant to be administrative areas only, and the boundaries of traditional counties such as Lancashire were not changed. The Friends of Real Lancashire state: "Unfortunately, the media refer to these administrative areas all too frequently and ignore the fact that places such as Barrow-in-Furness, Liverpool, Manchester, Warrington, etc. are still in Lancashire. "If administrative areas had not been called counties much of this confusion would have been avoided. The Royal Mail has at last dropped the use of administrative county names in postal addresses, and names such as Cumbria and Merseyside do not appear in the current Royal Mail Postal Address Book. Photo: Michael Steele