King Georges Playing Fields
King Georges Playing Fields is a recreation area in Wyre District, Lancashire, England. King Georges Playing Fields is situated nearby to the sports venue YMCA Thornton Sports Centre, as well as near the pitch Ashdell Crown Green Bowls Club.Places of Interest Nearby
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. Marsh Mill is situated 760 feet east of King Georges Playing Fields.
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. Christ Church is situated 1,800 feet northwest of King Georges Playing Fields.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Church
Photo: Bob Jenkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church is situated 3,000 feet northeast of King Georges Playing Fields.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thornton and Anchorsholme.
Thornton
Town
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.
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.
King Georges Playing Fields
- Type: Rugby
- Categories: recreation area and sports location
- Location: Wyre District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.87428° or 53° 52′ 27″ northLongitude
-3.01528° or 3° 0′ 55″ westOpen location code
9C5RVXFM+PVOpenStreetMap ID
way 274292827OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=recreation_groundOpenStreetMap feature
sport=rugby
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