Lancashire
Wyre District
Forton

Forton

Forton is a village and civil parish in the Wyre district of the English county of near the . It is near the A6 road, between the city of and the town of .
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  • Type: Village with 302 residents
  • Description: village in Wyre, Lancashire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Forton, Lancashire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Michael’s Church, Cockerham and Wyresdale Park.

Church
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St Michael & All Angels Church is located to the southwest of the English village of , . It is an active Anglican in the deanery of Lancaster, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and Morecambe, and the diocese of Blackburn. is situated 1½ miles west of Forton.

Manor estate
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is an English country house and licensed wedding ceremony venue located within the , to the northeast of , England. is situated 2 miles southeast of Forton.

Bridge
Photo: Philip Wallbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Galgate and Ellel.

Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the City of Lancaster, just south of Lancaster University, and about 3 miles south of Lancaster itself in the English county of . is situated 2½ miles north of Forton.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the City of Lancaster in the English county of . It had a population of 4,895 in 2011, up from 2,521 in 2001 The parish includes the villages of , and Hampson Green, and part of . is situated 3 miles north of Forton.

Town
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is an ancient market town and civil parish within the Wyre borough of , England. It is 10 miles north of the city of and the same distance south of . is situated 4 miles south of Forton.

Forton

Latitude
53.95564° or 53° 57′ 20″ north
Longitude
-2.7835° or 2° 47′ 1″ west
Population
302
Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)
Open location code
9C5VX648+7H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29145710
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2649172
Wiki­data ID
Q650385
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Welsh—“Forton” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “ফোর্টন”
  • Cebuano: “Forton”
  • Chinese: “福尔顿”
  • Chinese: “福爾頓”
  • Dutch: “Forton”
  • French: “Forton”
  • German: “Forton”
  • Gujarati: “ફોર્ટન”
  • Hungarian: “Forton”
  • Irish: “Forton”
  • Japanese: “フォートン”
  • Kannada: “ಫೋರ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “포턴”
  • Ladin: “Forton”
  • Lithuanian: “Fortonas”
  • Persian: “فورتون، لانکاشر”
  • Polish: “Forton”
  • Portuguese: “Forton”
  • Russian: “Фортон”
  • Spanish: “Forton”
  • Swedish: “Forton, Lancashire”
  • Swedish: “Forton”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட்டன்”
  • Telugu: “ఫోర్టన్”
  • Turkish: “Forton, Lancashire”
  • Urdu: “فورٹن”
  • Welsh: “Forton, Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
  • Welsh: “Forton”
  • “Forton”

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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 “Forton”. Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.