Fylde
Idyllic canal-side walks, country pubs and rural charm; you’ve got to see it to believe it!
Take some time out and explore the wonders of the beautiful countryside that surrounds Lytham and St Annes. Largely unspoiled and dotted around the Fylde, you’ll find hamlets, small villages and market towns, each one with their own special attraction and many tracing their history back hundreds of years.
Kirkham, the largest of the rural towns, received a Manor Charter in 1296 and there was a church on the site as early as 640AD. Singleton, recorded in the Domesday Book, is termed the ‘model village of the Fylde’ where the late 19th-century church and fire engine house are now Grade II listed buildings. Surrounded by farmland, the Fylde’s picturesque villages have their own unique heritage, Weeton-with-Presses, Warton, Westby-with-Plumpton, Thistleton, Little Eccleston, Newton with Scales, Freckleton and the picturesque village green and duck pond at Wrea Green.
There are several tastefully converted barns and restored thatched cottages in Treales, Roseacre and Wharles. Fylde’s ‘windmill’ connection is also evident here, as well as in Staining, where some 200 year old examples, originally used to grind corn, are now beautiful homes.
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