Fleetwood

Also known as Fleetwood, Lancashire

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

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20th century
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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.