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HISTORY OF THE FYLDE
OF LANCASHIRE,

BY
JOHN PORTER, M.R.C.S., L.S.A.

FLEETWOOD AND BLACKPOOL:
W. PORTER AND SONS, PUBLISHERS.
1876.

[All rights reserved.]

FLEETWOOD AND BLACKPOOL:
PRINTED BY W. PORTER AND SONS.


TO
BENJAMIN WHITWORTH, ESQUIRE, M.P.,
In admiration of his Enterprise, Generosity, and Philanthropy,
displayed in the Fylde, and elsewhere,
and as
a tribute of personal regard and esteem
,
THIS VOLUME
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY
THE AUTHOR.


PREFACE.

A few, and only a few, words are needed to introducethe History of the Fylde to the public. In itspreparation my aim has been to make the workas comprehensive in description and detail as the prescribedlimits would allow, and I have endeavoured to write in a style freefrom any tendency to pedantry, and I hope, also, from dulness.How far these conditions have been fulfilled I must now leaveto the judgment of the reader, doing so with some degree ofconfidence that at any rate the attempt will be generallyappreciated, if the success be not universally acknowledged.In the course of my labours I have availed myself of theworks of various authors, and desire to acknowledge myindebtedness, especially to Baines’s Lancashire, Fishwick’sKirkham, Thornber’s Blackpool, and many volumes of theCheetham and other historical societies. My thanks forvaluable aid are also due to the following gentlemen, amongstothers, the Ven. Archdeacon Hornby, of St. Michael’s-on-Wyre;the Rev. W. Richardson, of Poulton-le-Fylde; Col. Bourne, M.P.,of Hackensall and Heathfield; John Furness, esq., of Fulwood;W. H. Poole, esq., of Fleetwood; and the Bailiffs of Kirkham.

JOHN PORTER.

Fleetwood, August, 1876.


ERRATA.

Page 7, line 15, after the word crossing,insert the Main Dyke from. This Dyke is crossed after leaving,and not before reaching, Staining, as stated.

Page 147, line 9 from the bottom, forGulph, read Gulf.

Page 183, line 2, for 1857, read 1657.

Page 256, dele the heading Coasting.

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