The Fylde

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The Fylde

The Fylde is a coastal plain

Plain

In geography, a plain is an area of landscape with relatively high relief, as well as flat. Prairies and steppes are types of plains, and the archetype for a plain is often thought of as a grassland, but plains in their natural state may also be covered in shrublands, woodland and forest, or vegetation may be absent in the case of sandy or...
in western Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in the North West England of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea....
, England

England

Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
-shaped peninsula

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of Landform that is nearly surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus. Word origin: Latin paeninsula : paene, almost + insula, island....
, bounded by Morecambe Bay

Morecambe Bay

Morecambe Bay is a large bay in northwest England, nearly due east of the Isle of Man and just to the south of the Lake District National Park....
to the north, the Ribble

River Ribble

The River Ribble is a river that runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire, in the North of England. The river's drainage basin also includes parts of Greater Manchester around Wigan....
estuary to the south, the Irish Sea

Irish Sea

The Irish Sea also known as the Mann Sea or Manx Sea, separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is connected to the Celtic Sea portion of the Atlantic Ocean by St George's Channel between Republic of Ireland and Wales, and to the north by the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland which forms part of...
to the west, and the Bowland

Forest of Bowland

The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells, is an area of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England....
hills to the east. The eastern boundary is approximately the location of the M6 motorway

M6 motorway

The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom. It runs from junction 19 of the M1 motorway near Rugby, Warwickshire in central England, passes between Coventry and Nuneaton, through Birmingham, Walsall and Stafford and near the major cities of Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent....
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It is a flat, alluvial plain

Alluvial plain

An alluvial plain is a relatively flat landform created by the deposition of sediment over a long period of time by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which Alluvium soil forms....
; parts were once dug for peat

Peat

Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation biological tissue. Peat forms in wetlands or peatlands, variously called bogs, Moorland, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests....
, and it is the western part of an area formerly known as Amounderness

Amounderness

Amounderness is an area of North West England. In its most recent incarnation it was a Hundred of Lancashire. Previously the name had been used for territories now in Lancashire and north of the River Ribble that had been included in the Domesday Book's Yorkshire section....
. The name 'Fylde' is of Scandinavian origin, meaning "field".

The west coast is almost entirely urban, containing the towns of Fleetwood

Fleetwood

Fleetwood is a town within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying at the northwest corner of the Fylde. It had a population of 26,840 people at the United Kingdom Census 2001....
, Cleveleys

Cleveleys

Cleveleys is a town on the Fylde peninsula of Lancashire, England, about 4 miles north of Blackpool and 2 miles south of Fleetwood. It is part of the Borough of Wyre....
, Blackpool

Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Lying along the coast of the Irish Sea, it has a population of 142,900, making it the North West England#Important cities and towns settlement in North West England behind Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington....
and Lytham St Annes

Lytham St Annes

Lytham St Annes is a conurbation in the Fylde district of Lancashire, England. The neighbouring towns of Lytham and St-Annes-on-Sea have grown together and now form a seaside resort, sometimes seen as a smaller and more genteel alternative to nearby Blackpool....
, with Thornton

Thornton, Lancashire

Thornton is a town on Fylde peninsula, in Lancashire, England, about four miles north of Blackpool and two miles south of Fleetwood. It is in the borough of Wyre....
and Poulton-le-Fylde

Poulton-le-Fylde

Poulton-le-Fylde is a town within the Wyre borough of Lancashire, England. The town has a population of 19,480 as of 2001 and occupies an area of 7.79 km?, for a population density of 2500 people/km?....
not far inland.

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The Fylde is a coastal plain

Plain

Lancashire

Lancashire is a Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in the North West England of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea....
, England

England

Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
-shaped peninsula

Peninsula

Morecambe Bay

Morecambe Bay is a large bay in northwest England, nearly due east of the Isle of Man and just to the south of the Lake District National Park....
to the north, the Ribble

River Ribble

Irish Sea

Forest of Bowland

M6 motorway

Alluvial plain

Peat

Amounderness

Fleetwood

Cleveleys

Cleveleys is a town on the Fylde peninsula of Lancashire, England, about 4 miles north of Blackpool and 2 miles south of Fleetwood. It is part of the Borough of Wyre....
, Blackpool

Blackpool

Lytham St Annes

Thornton, Lancashire

Thornton is a town on Fylde peninsula, in Lancashire, England, about four miles north of Blackpool and two miles south of Fleetwood. It is in the borough of Wyre....
and Poulton-le-Fylde

Poulton-le-Fylde

Blackpool Urban Area

Greater Blackpool is the informal name for the urban area surrounding Blackpool in Lancashire, England. The Office for National Statistics define a Blackpool Urban Area, with a population of 261,088 , down 0.1% from the 1991 figure of 261,355....
. The central southern part of the Fylde includes the smaller towns of Kirkham

Kirkham, Lancashire

Kirkham, or as it once was known, Kirkam-in-Amounderness is a town in the Fylde district of Lancashire, England, midway between Blackpool and Preston ....
and Wesham

Wesham

Wesham is a town on the Fylde in Lancashire, England, adjacent to the larger town of Kirkham, Lancashire. Properly called Medlar-with-Wesham, the town is now an independent parish administered by Fylde Borough Council....
. The rest of the Fylde is rural, containing villages such as Freckleton

Freckleton

Freckleton is a village on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, England, to the south of Kirkham, Lancashire and east of the seaside resort of Lytham St Annes....
, Warton

Warton, Fylde

Warton is a village on the The Fylde in Lancashire, England.The village is about six miles from Preston and eight miles from Blackpool. It is located on the banks of the River Ribble, close to its entry into the Irish Sea....
, Wrea Green

Wrea Green

Wrea Green is a village in the Fylde borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about 2 miles west of Kirkham, Lancashire. The correct parish name is Ribby with Wrea ...
, Great Eccleston

Great Eccleston

Great Eccleston is a village and civil parish in the England county of Lancashire.Great Eccleston lies to the south of the River Wyre and the A586 road ten miles upstream from the port of Fleetwood....
, Hambleton

Hambleton, Lancashire

Hambleton is a village and civil parish in the Over Wyre area of Lancashire, England, seven miles north-east of Blackpool. The village is on the A588 road and the nearest town is Poulton-le-Fylde....
, Knott End and Pilling

Pilling

Pilling is a village and civil parish within the Wyre borough of Lancashire, England. It is north-northeast of Poulton-le-Fylde, south-southwest of Lancaster, Lancashire and northwest of Preston, in a part of the Fylde known as Over Wyre....
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The River Wyre

River Wyre

The River Wyre is a river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Irish Sea at Fleetwood. It is approximately 28 miles in length. The river is a County Biological Heritage Site....
meanders across the Fylde from Garstang

Garstang

Garstang is a civil parish within the Wyre borough of Lancashire, England. It is ten miles north-northwest of the city of Preston and eleven miles south of Lancaster, Lancashire, and has a total resident population of 4,074....
on the eastern edge, westwards towards Poulton

Poulton-le-Fylde

Fleetwood

Over Wyre

Over Wyre is the collective name given to a group of villages in Lancashire, England situated on the Fylde, to the north of the River Wyre. The group is usually considered to include Hambleton, Lancashire, Stalmine, Knott End-on-Sea, Preesall, Pilling and Out Rawcliffe....
, is the more rural side of the river. The Fylde peninsula is roughly trisected by the M55 motorway

M55 motorway

The M55 is a motorway in Lancashire, England, which can also be referred to as the Preston Northern Bypass. It connects the seaside resort of Blackpool to the M6 motorway at Preston....
and A586 road

A586 road

The A586 is a road in England, which runs from Garstang to Blackpool, in Lancashire.The road runs a total distance of 13 miles, in a roughly east-west direction, and is both urban and rural in character....
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The borough of Fylde is a local government area covering the south of the Fylde plain. The rest is covered by the boroughs of Wyre and Blackpool

Blackpool

The Fylde

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