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The lighthouse was designed by Alexander Mitchell, an Irish engineer who developed the screwpile concept.It was the first screwpile lighthouse ever to be lit. Although construction of the Maplin Sands Light on the northern bank of the Thames estuary had started before Wyre Light, the latter was completed in a much shorter period of time. [4]
Fleetwood's main terminus was closed on 18 April 1966, as a result of the Beeching Cuts, and Wyre Dock was renamed "Fleetwood" station, as the terminus of the Fleetwood Branch Line. [2] However, all passenger services between Poulton-le-Fylde and Fleetwood were withdrawn after the last train on 30 May 1970, [ 3 ] and the station was demolished.
Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]
The Preston and Wyre Railway (P&WR) was built to connect Preston, on the London and North Western Railway West Coast Main Line, with the port of Fleetwood, at the mouth of the River Wyre. It opened in 1840. An associated company built the dock leading to the company, changing its name to the Preston and Wyre Railway, Harbour and Dock Company.
The Wyre Estuary Ferry (colloquially known as the Fleetwood-to-Knott End Ferry) is a pedestrian ferry-crossing owned and operated by Wyre Marine Services in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England. [1] The 0.21-mile (0.34 km) crossing of the River Wyre , which is funded by Lancashire County Council and Wyre Borough Council , [ 2 ] takes around five ...
The Preston and Wyre Joint Railway from Preston to Fleetwood was originally opened on 15 July 1840, [2] with a terminus in Dock Street, opposite Church Street. [3] In the original plans for the new town, the station was to be at the end of London Street, directly from the Mount, but this plan was not followed. [4]
Fleetwood is a coastal town in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde.It had a population of 25,939 at the 2011 census.. Fleetwood acquired its modern character in the 1830s, when the principal landowner Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, High Sheriff and MP, conceived an ambitious plan to re-develop the town to make it a busy seaport and railway spur.
The districts cover the entire borough of Blackpool and the western parts of the boroughs of Wyre and Fylde. The letters in the postcode area name refer to the Fylde coastal plain. Its five post towns are Blackpool, Fleetwood, Lytham St Annes, Poulton-le-Fylde, Thornton-Cleveleys. The FY1 district covers Blackpool town centre.
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