West Lancashire

West Lancashire, district, administrative and historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England, north of the city of Liverpool. Ormskirk, in the southwest, is the district’s administrative centre. West Lancashire is separated from the Irish Sea by the narrow coastal strip of Sefton except in the north at the mouth of the River Ribble. The district is essentially a low-lying coastal plain, much of it reclaimed marshland, although marshes in the extreme north have not been drained....