Fleetwood: Lancashire's Trawler Port on the Fylde Coast With a Victorian Pharos Lighthouse
Fleetwood occupies the northern tip of the Fylde peninsula in Lancashire, where the River Wyre meets Morecambe Bay. The population is around 25,700. The town was purpose-built in the 1830s by Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, who hired the architect Decimus Burton to design it as a seaside resort and port. Two lighthouses were constructed as a pair to guide ships into the Wyre channel; the Pharos lighthouse on Pharos Street and the Beach lighthouse on the seafront still stand, though neither is operational. Fleetwood developed into one of England's largest deep-sea fishing ports, with its trawler fleet landing catches at the Fish Dock from the 1870s until the industry's sharp decline in the 1970s and 1980s. The Fleetwood Museum on Queen's Terrace covers the fishing heritage. Fisherman's Friend throat lozenges were first made in Fleetwood in 1865 by James Lofthouse, and the company still manufactures there.
The town sits within the Wyre borough. Blackpool is about eight miles to the south along the coast. The Blackpool tramway runs from Fleetwood Ferry to Starr Gate in Blackpool, one of the few surviving first-generation tramways in the world, now modernised with new rolling stock. Fleetwood does not have its own railway station; the nearest is Poulton-le-Fylde, about seven miles south, on the line to Blackpool North and Preston. The A585 connects to the M55 and then the M6 at junction 32. The Marine Hall on the Esplanade is a concert and events venue overlooking Morecambe Bay. For those looking into adult companionship along the Fylde coast, Fleetwood's tram link to Blackpool and road connections to the M55 give access across Lancashire.
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Fleetwood occupies the northern tip of the Fylde peninsula in Lancashire, where the River Wyre meets Morecambe Bay. The population is around 25,700. The town was purpose-built in the 1830s by Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, who hired the architect Decimus Burton to design it as a seaside resort and port. Two lighthouses were constructed as a pair to guide ships into the Wyre channel; the Pharos lighthouse on Pharos Street and the Beach lighthouse on the seafront still stand, though neither is operational. Fleetwood developed into one of England's largest deep-sea fishing ports, with its trawler fleet landing catches at the Fish Dock from the 1870s until the industry's sharp decline in the 1970s and 1980s. The Fleetwood Museum on Queen's Terrace covers the fishing heritage. Fisherman's Friend throat lozenges were first made in Fleetwood in 1865 by James Lofthouse, and the company still manufactures there.
The town sits within the Wyre borough. Blackpool is about eight miles to the south along the coast. The Blackpool tramway runs from Fleetwood Ferry to Starr Gate in Blackpool, one of the few surviving first-generation tramways in the world, now modernised with new rolling stock. Fleetwood does not have its own railway station; the nearest is Poulton-le-Fylde, about seven miles south, on the line to Blackpool North and Preston. The A585 connects to the M55 and then the M6 at junction 32. The Marine Hall on the Esplanade is a concert and events venue overlooking Morecambe Bay. For those looking into adult companionship along the Fylde coast, Fleetwood's tram link to Blackpool and road connections to the M55 give access across Lancashire.
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