Thornton
Thornton is a village in the Borough of Wyre, about 4 miles north of Blackpool and 2 miles south of Fleetwood. The civil parish of Thornton became an urban district in 1900, and was renamed Thornton-Cleveleys in 1927.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: village on the Fylde, in Lancashire, England
- Also known as: “Thornton, Lancashire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marsh Mill and Christ Church.
Marsh Mill
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marsh Mill is an 18th-century tower windmill in Thornton, Lancashire, England. It was built in 1794 by Ralph Slater for local landowner Bold Hesketh. It functioned as a corn mill until the 1920s and has been fully restored.
Christ Church
Church
Christ Church is in Meadows Avenue, Thornton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Poulton, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anchorsholme and Cleveleys.
Anchorsholme
Suburb
Photo: Trevor Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Anchorsholme is a suburban area of Blackpool and the name of a ward in the Borough of Blackpool in Lancashire, England. It lies close to the town of Cleveleys.
Cleveleys
Photo: Michael D Beckwith, CC0.
Cleveleys or Thornton-Cleveleys is a part of the Wyre local council area in Lancashire, England. It is 3 miles north of Blackpool, with which it has grown to merge along with the other Fylde Coast towns of Bispham, Lytham St Annes and Fleetwood.
Bispham
Village
Photo: Michael Beckwith, CC BY 2.0.
Bispham is a village on the Fylde coast in the Borough of Blackpool in Lancashire, England. Bispham is situated 2 miles southwest of Thornton.
Thornton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Wyre District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.87592° or 53° 52′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.0122° or 3° 0′ 44″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)Open location code
9C5RVXGQ+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 29498457OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Volapük—“Thornton” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Thornton”
- Basque: “Thornton (Lancashire)”
- Basque: “Thornton”
- Chinese: “桑顿”
- Czech: “Thornton”
- Dutch: “Thornton”
- French: “Thornton”
- German: “Thornton”
- Irish: “Thornton, Lancashire”
- Italian: “Thornton”
- Ladin: “Thornton (Lancashire)”
- Ladin: “Thornton”
- Persian: “ثورنتون لانکاشر”
- Polish: “Thornton”
- Spanish: “Thornton”
- Swedish: “Thornton, Lancashire”
- Swedish: “Thornton”
- Volapük: “Thornton”
- “Thornton”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thornton”. Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.