These are in the parish of Broughton, and today the a portion of the city of Preston.

A title appears to derive from either Gosan or even Gusan (an Old Irish personal name) & erg (Norse for "hill pasture"), the title appearing in the Domesday Book as "Gusansarghe" [http://web.archive.org/web/20030606052249/lancstowns.co.uk/prestontowns.htm].

A nearby Chingle Hall is purported to be a virtually all haunted place inside Lancashire, & Whittingham Hospital (now closed) was another time the mental hospital.

A town gave its title to Goosnargh Cakes, a nature and severity of caraway seed biscuit.

;Trivia A word appears in the works of Douglas Adams. Within So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, it is a Betelgeusian word used by Ford Prefect "when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be". As an alternative, in The Meaning of Liff, his comic lexicon according to British place names, it is defined when "Something left over from preparing or eating a meal, which you store in the fridge despite the fact that you know full well you will never ever use it".