the distinctive town title is from either pen (meaning a hill), weid (meaning ford) & ham (meaning cash settlement). the town has a people of approx. 21,500.

A town of Penwortham is a share of the borough of South Ribble. A town's history may be traced back to pre-historic days using archeologic grounds to believe showing that a ford at a Middleforth front yard was utilized to cross a Ribble. A town was employed in the Domesday Book and a Priory was built in the Priory front yard of the town. The elementary motte-and-bailey Castle was built during a post-Norman conquest time overlooking a Ribble & its ford. A select few grounds to believe of this castle however evident in the God's acre of St Marys Church. Around in the future centuries the manor was built, there are no grounds to believe remains in todays world. A Middleforth - Lower Penwortham vicinity was developed in a time period of the Victorian period which is evident per prominent total of terrace housing standing along Leyl& Road and sorrounding side streets. Upper Penwortham is characterized by 1920's & post-war semi detached housing. Inside recent days there has been many recently housing developments especially around a Bee Lane, Kingsfold Cause, Margarete Road & Factory Lane areas of the town.

A front yard has okay, about merged by using Preston by having fantabulous transfer links between them through a flow of any stream. A town is comparatively loaded compared to to a bit of areas of Preston.