Christ 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.- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church in Thornton, Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Christ Church, Thornton”
- Address: Meadows Avenue, Thornton-Cleveleys, FY5 2TW
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Marsh Mill and Anchorsholme Library.
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 2,300 feet southeast of Christ Church.
Anchorsholme Library
Library
Photo: Trevor Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Anchorsholme Library is situated 3,500 feet southwest of Christ Church.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Church
Photo: Bob Jenkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church is situated 3,200 feet northeast of Christ Church.
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.
Christ Church
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Wyre District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.87736° or 53° 52′ 39″ northLongitude
-3.02185° or 3° 1′ 19″ westOpen location code
9C5RVXGH+W7OpenStreetMap ID
way 882287056OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q5108719
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In Other Languages
“Christ Church” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه المسيح”
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