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POULTON-LE-FYLDE, a small town, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Fylde district, Lancashire. The town stands on the Preston and Wyre railway, at the junction of the branch to Blackpool, near the river Wyre, 5 miles S by E of Fleetwood; conducted commerceas a port on the Wyre, previous to the founding of Fleet-wood; is a seat of petty sessions and county courts, and a polling-place; and has a post-office‡ under Preston, a railway station with telegraph, a police station, a church, two dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a freeschool, a weekly corn-market on Monday, and fairs on 3 Feb., 13 April, and 3 Nov. The church was rebuilt in 1751; retains a tower of the time of Charles I.; and contains tablets to the families of Brockholes, Hesketh, and Fleetwood. The township comprises 900 acres. Real property, £3, 798. Pop., 1, 141. Houses, 246. The manor belonged to Roger de Poictiers, and was given to Shrewsbury abbey. The parish contains also the townships of Hardhorn-with-Newton, Great and Little Carleton, and Thornton-with-Fleetwood-on-Wyre, and the hamlets of Great Marton and Little Marton; and includesa great extent of coast and foreshore. Acres, 20, 666. Real property, £39, 367; of which £200 are in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 7, 690; in 1861, 8, 665. Houses, 1, 418. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £257. Patron, the Rev.Hesketh. The p.curacies of Thornton, Fleetwood, and Marton are separate benefices. The sub-district excludes Little Martonhamlet, but includes Bispham parish and Singleton township. Acres, 29, 391. Pop. in 1851, 10, 415; in 1861, 12, 914. Houses, 2, 256.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town, a township, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Poulton le Fylde CP/AP Poulton le Fylde SubD Fylde RegD/PLU Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Poulton le Fylde |
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