Poulton le Fylde, Lancashire

Description
Poulton-le-Fylde, a small town, a township, and a parish in Lancashire. The town stands on the Preston and Wyre Joint railway, at the junction of the branch to Blackpool, near the river Wyre, 5 miles S by E of Fleetwood, and 3 1/2 from Blackpool. It was a port on the Wyre previous to the founding of Fleetwood, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Preston, a railway station, a county police station, a church, Congregational, Wesleyan, and Roman Catholic chapels, an endowed school founded in 1717, and fairs on 3 Feb., 13 April, and 3 Nov. The church was rebuilt in 1751 on the site of an ancient church, retains a tower of the time of Charles I., and contains tablets to the families of Brockholes, Hesketh, and Fleetwood. An organ was erected in 1855, and a stained glass memorial window in 1882. A cemetery was formed in 1883, and is under the control of a burial board. There are also Roman Catholic and Congregational burial-grounds. The township, including part of Skippool Bridge, comprises 914 acres; population, 1412; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2291. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belonged to Roger de Poictiers, and was given to Shrewsbury Abbey. The parish contains also the townships of Hardhorn-with-Newton and Carleton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £253 with residence.