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| WELCOME TO POULTON-LE-FYLDE This is the website of Poulton-le-Fylde Historical and Civic Society &St Chad’s Parish Church For the latest news of St Chad’s Churchclick onSt CHAD’S CHURCHthen click onTHE PARISH |
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The site is intended to give visitors a flavour of the town and its past, present and future. We welcome contributions from all those with an interest in the history of Poulton-le-Fylde and its surrounding communities.
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YOUR MEMORIES OF POULTON ARE VERY WELCOME Please email mc.storey@virgin.net to add material to the site
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POULTON-LE-FYLDE HISTORICAL & CIVIC SOCIETY Poulton-le-Fylde is a small market town about 4 miles from Blackpool in Lancashire. It is listed together with 60 other small communities in Domesday when it was in the area then known as Amounderness.
The earliest reference to the church – dedicated to St Chad – is 1094, though there is circumstantial evidence that there would have been a church here much earlier. In March 2008 the site of at least two Romano-British round houses and Roman pottery, together with medieval pottery and evidence of ridge and furrow, was found on the outskirts of the town during pipelaying – an exciting and important discovery for this part of Lancashire
The Historical Society was formed in 1981 as a result of the minister of Poulton United Reformed Church, Rev David Wiseman, collecting old photographs and oral history of the town from which he produced two books – the first to be written on the town since the time of the Victorian antiquarians.
In 1997 the Society became a joint Historical and Civic Society in order to play a more prominent role in the conservation of the town.
The Society has a membership of 65. We put on a series of talks throughout the year, organise many exhibitions in the local area and produce a series of occasional Journals An important part of our work is with local schools providing input into the curriculum for local history. The Society organised a series of 16 plaques marking significant sites on the town. A town trail based on these was produced as part of her course work by a graphics design student at Blackpool and The Fylde College. The plaques were sponsored by local businesses and individuals and the town trail by Wyre Borough Council.
Our aim is to interest local people in the town’s past, present and future.
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