Boundaries of the Fylde

PhilB · **Posted:** Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:15 pm

I cycle a lot around the Fylde but I`m often uncertain whether I`m actually on the Fylde or not. It seems to be an area with no actual boundaries - or at least I`ve never seen them on a map. Is there an "official" Fylde boundary?

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:15 pm

Phil,

There is an official boundary to the Fylde, usually shown as a red line I think on certain maps. Might be blue. I'd have to check that. Part of the boundary, apparently, cuts halfway across the River Wyre near Shard Bridge/Mains Hall, which doesn't make a lot of sense, because that means that part of the River Wyre is actually outside the Wyre itself. Intriguingly, Poulton-le-Fylde is also in the Wyre (it's the administrative centre in fact). All very confusing and typical of politically motivated boundary definitions.

That's, of course, the relatively modern borough boundary. Back in Saxon times the Fylde appears to have covered the Wyre and Blackpool as well...more or less the same area previously covered by the Norse 'Amounderness'. If memory serves it stretched as far as the Ribble to the south and Cockerham to the north.

chris2553 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:18 pm

I too don't know what the boundaries of the Fylde are, but they certainly extend way beyond those of Fylde Borough. Almost everyone around these parts would agree that Blackpool is on the Fylde coast and in the OnLine Parish Clerks web site carries details of the parish of Thornton-le-Fylde. Moreover, the folks Over Wyre would say that they live in the Fylde; certainly my mum does (so it must be true :-)

. Warton and Freckleton are regarded as being in the Fylde, I think (quick Google confirms that).

There's an entry on the Fylde (as opposed to Fylde Borough) on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fylde). I would say that's got the Fylde just about right.

frankjsmith · **Posted:** Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:07 pm

Geographicly, the Fylde is an area within the boundry of the Ribble to the south, the A6 to the east, the sea to the west, and a line due east from Fleetwood to the A6 to the north. That's my view and I'm sticking to it!

frankjsmith · **Posted:** Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:10 pm

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Warton and Freckleton are regarded as being in the Fylde, I think (quick Google confirms that).

Who the h--l are google to dictate on such thing, anyway.

PhilB · **Posted:** Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:24 am

So Garstang - not on the Fylde?

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:37 am

Phil,

Garstang would almost certainly have been within the old boundaries of the Fylde...I suspect. I think Michelle worked out the old boundaries once. I'll have to ask her about them.

Chris,

Apologies for not responding to your e-mails yet. For some reason Hotmail/Live-mail won't allow me to send any e-mails out at the moment, until I've verified my account. (Why they want me to do this after several months I've no idea.) Unfortunately when I click on the link to verify matters, it refuses to load anything in. At this rate I'll have to get myself a new email sever. Bloody Microsoft, eh? They can't even get their own websites to work!

frankjsmith · **Posted:** Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:23 pm

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So Garstang - not on the Fylde?

Err... Did Garstang ever have a windmill then?

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:38 pm

Frank,

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Did Garstang ever have a windmill then?

Bound to have had one at some point, I'm sure...

john · **Posted:** Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:01 pm

Hi All

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For some reason Hotmail/Live-mail won't allow me to send any e-mails out at the moment, until I've verified my account. (Why they want me to do this after several months I've no idea.) Unfortunately when I click on the link to verify matters, it refuses to load anything in. At this rate I'll have to get myself a new email sever. Bloody Microsoft, eh? They can't even get their own websites to work!

The verification is a junk mail/phishing scam.. You have probably had you email address hacked now, after you entered you verification. If anyone else gets a mail from Hotmail saying your account needs to be verified ignore it and report it as a Phishing scam.

Regards

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:49 am

John,

This was, I suspect, a genuine 'verification' request on behalf of Microsoft because I couldn't send any e-mails out until I'd completed it...which I couldn't do, because the site it kept directing me to wouldn't actually load in. I have a suspicion that it's a deliberate malfunction on Microsoft's part, because I'm using Linux. Whatever the case, I shifted to Googlemail now, and it seems to be working fine.

chris2553 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:11 pm

frankjsmith wrote:

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Warton and Freckleton are regarded as being in the Fylde, I think (quick Google confirms that).

Who the h--l are google to dictate on such thing, anyway.

Whooa, perhaps I should have made myself clearer. I wasn't saying that Google are an authrority on anything. I was saying that using Ggoogle's top-class search engine I was able to find articles that confirmed that others are of the view those two locations are in the Fylde including one article by people who resides in Freckleton.

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:11 pm

Now look what you've done Phil. Politics, religion and the boundaries of the Fylde -- three subjects that are always contentious by their very nature.

PhilB · **Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:14 am

[quote="frankjsmith"]Geographicly, the Fylde is an area within the boundry of the Ribble to the south, the A6 to the east, the sea to the west, and a line due east from Fleetwood to the A6 to the north. and I'm quote]

That would put parts of Preston in the Fylde. :cry:

frankjsmith · **Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:00 pm

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That would put parts of Preston in the Fylde.

True, Ashton-on-Ribble is in the Fylde, what's so sad about that.
and it's still got it's windmill. This photo is from the fifties as I couldn't find the one I took a few years ago. It must have been surrounded by fields when it was built, but now it's towering blocks of student accomodation.

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Whooa, perhaps I should have made myself clearer. I wasn't saying that Google are an authrority on anything.

Chris, don't worry, I think the homebrew was just kicking in when I posted that reply about google.

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