Thornton-Cleveleys
Thornton-Cleveleys is a conurbation consisting of the village of Thornton and the town of Cleveleys. The two settlements formed a joint urban district from 1927 until 1974, before becoming part of Wyre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 31,200 residents
- Description: local government district of Wyre, Lancashire, England, covering the towns of Thornton and Cleveleys
- Postal code: FY5
Places of Interest
Highlights include Christ Church and Marsh Mill.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thornton and Anchorsholme.
Thornton
Town
Thornton is a village in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England. It is 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.
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.
Thornton-Cleveleys
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Thornton-Cleveleys” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Thornton-Cleveleys”
- Chinese: “桑顿-克利夫利斯”
- Dutch: “Thornton-Cleveleys”
- Irish: “Thornton-Cleveleys”
- Japanese: “ランカシャー”
- Swedish: “Thornton-Cleveleys”
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