41 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Church of St AndrewGrade II* listedWorden HallGrade II park or gardenEagle and Child InnGrade II listedSt Mary's Roman Catholic Junior SchoolGrade II listedFarington HouseGrade II listed+1See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 11 entries were listed in 1951. 24 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

Worden HallGrade II

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

John Woodcock

James Cross

Richard Orrell

Jimmy Bannister

Fred Beardsworth

William Clifton

Roland Woodhouse

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Jimmy Bannister1880–1953 · English footballer (1880-1953)

JC

James Cross1862–1927 · English cricketer (1862-1927)

FB

Fred Beardsworth1889–1964 · English footballer (1889-1964)

JW

John Woodcock1603–1646 · English convert to Roman Catholicism

WC

William Clifton1891–1953 · English footballer

RO

Richard Orrell1875–1919 · (1875-1919)

RW

Roland Woodhouse1897–1969 · English footballer (1897-1969)

Everyone born in Leyland → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Leyland has 41 listed buildings, including St Andrew's Church. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1978. Of the 7 people born here before 1900, the best known include Jimmy Bannister (1880), James Cross (1862) and Fred Beardsworth (1889). The big year was 1984, when 24 of the 41 went on the list. The rest is about typical: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 9.7% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.