Editing Lancaster, Lancashire (section)

==Geography==
Lancaster is Lancashire's northernmost city, three miles ({{cvt|3|mi|disp=output only}}) inland from [[Morecambe Bay]]. It is on the River Lune (from which comes its name), and the [[Lancaster Canal]]. It becomes hillier from the Lune Valley eastwards, with Williamson Hill in the north-west a notable height at {{cvt|109|m|ft}} and recognised as a [[TuMP]]: a hill with "thirty and upwards metres [[topographic prominence|prominence]]".<ref name="tump">{{cite web |title=Williamson Park |url=https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/mountaindetails.php?qu=S&rf=18871 |website=www.hill-bagging.co.uk |publisher=Hill Bagging |access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref> The central area of the city can be roughly defined by the railway to the west, the canal to the south and east, and the river to the north.<ref name=citymap>{{cite web |title=Lancaster (map) |url=https://visitlancaster.org.uk/wp-content/files_mf/1651838870LancasterMapAttractionsandAccommodationLeaflet060522.pdf |publisher=Lancaster Visitor Information Centre |access-date=28 July 2023}}</ref>

===Built-up area===
Lancaster, [[Morecambe]] and [[Heysham]] have been identified by the [[Office for National Statistics]] as forming the Lancaster/Morecambe Built-up area, with a population of 97,150 in the [[2011 United Kingdom census|2011 census]].<ref name="UrbanAreaData">{{NOMIS2011|id=E34004686|title=Lancaster/Morecambe Built-up area |access-date=17 July 2021}}</ref> Within this, ONS identifies a Lancaster [[built-up area sub division]] with a 2011 population of 48,085.<ref name=nomis2011buasd>{{NOMIS2011 |id=E35001347 |title=Lancaster Built-up area sub division | access-date=28 July 2023}}</ref>

===Green belt===
{{main|North West Green Belt}}
There is a small portion of green belt on the northern fringe of Lancaster, covering the area into Carnforth and helping to prevent further urban expansion towards nearby Morecambe, Hest Bank, Slyne and Bolton-le-Sands.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Environmental studies |url=http://www.lancaster.gov.uk/planning/planning-policy/environmental-studies |website=Lancaster City Council |access-date=28 February 2018 |archive-date=28 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228223622/http://www.lancaster.gov.uk/planning/planning-policy/environmental-studies |url-status=live}}</ref>
{{Geographic location
|title = '''Destinations from Lancaster'''
|North-west = [[Morecambe Bay]], [[Barrow-in-Furness]]
|North = [[Slyne]], [[Hest Bank]], [[Bolton-le-Sands]], [[Carnforth]], [[Milnthorpe]], [[Kendal]]
|North-east = [[Caton, Lancashire|Caton]], [[Halton, Lancashire|Halton]], [[Kirkby Lonsdale]], [[Wennington (Lancashire)|Wennington]]
|West = [[Morecambe]], [[Heysham]]
|Centre = Lancaster
|East = [[Quernmore]]
|South-west = [[Glasson Dock]], [[Pilling]], [[Knott End-on-Sea]], [[Fleetwood]], [[Poulton-le-Fylde]], [[Blackpool]]
|South = [[Lancaster University]], [[Galgate]], [[Bay Horse]], [[Garstang]], [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]]
|South-east = [[Abbeystead]], [[Forest of Bowland]], [[Dolphinholme]]
}}