Fleetwood
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Fleetwood is a coastal town in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde. It had a population of 26,232 at the 2021 census.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Fleetwood
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.population
- 26,232
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SD333479
- UK place.post_town
- FLEETWOOD
- UK place.postcode_area
- FY
- UK place.postcode_district
- FY7
- UK place.dial_code
- 01253
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Blackpool North and Fleetwood
- UK place.civil_parish
- Fleetwood
- UK place.shire_district
- Wyre
- UK place.shire_county
- Lancashire
- UK place.pushpin_map
- United Kingdom Borough of Wyre#United Kingdom The Fylde#United Kingdom Morecambe Bay#United Kingdom Fleetwood
- UK place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Wyre Borough##Location on the Fylde##Location on Morecambe Bay##Location of town centre in Fleetwood
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 25939
- Image
- Fleetwood - Mar 2008 - Marine Hall and Gardens from the Mount.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01253
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- postal code
- FY7
- Commons category
- Fleetwood
- OS grid reference
- SD333479
- P12749
- William Prager
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Fleetwood is a coastal town in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde. It had a population of 26,232 at the 2021 census.
Fleetwood acquired its modern character in the 1830s, when the principal landowner Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, High Sheriff and MP, conceived an ambitious plan to re-develop the town to make it a busy seaport and railway spur. He commissioned the Victorian architect Decimus Burton to design a number of substantial civic buildings, including two lighthouses. Hesketh-Fleetwood's transport terminus schemes failed to materialise. The town expanded greatly in the first half of the 20th century with the growth of the fishing industry, and passenger ferries to the Isle of Man, to become a deep-sea fishing port.
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