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By Christine Storey

Poulton has a protracted heritage. it really is recorded in Domesday, including over sixty different small groups in Amounderness, a carefully populated coastal quarter of north-west Lancashire. From its earliest days Poulton-le-Fylde has served as a industry city, delivering items and providers wanted through the outlying farms and groups. the traditional parish church devoted to St Chad stands on the head of the marketplace position. whereas protecting its medieval highway format, making plans judgements remodeled contemporary years have replaced Poulton from the small rural industry city of the early 20th century into the neighborhood of this present day and unavoidably a few of the town's historic legacy has been misplaced. This publication documents a few of Poulton's previous and compares it with the current scene, a reminder of what has long gone and perhaps a shock to newer residents.

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