Freshfield
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Freshfield is a district of Formby in Merseyside, England, situated at the northern end of the town.
It has a railway station on the Liverpool to Southport line.
[edit] History
The name did not exist until Formby's second railway station, Freshfield, was built in the 19th century and the name was chosen, as the local landowner, a certain Mr Fresh, owned the adjacent field. In fact, the same farmer used the new station stop to bring in human manure from nearby Liverpool to fertilise his field, a principal reason for why the station was built.
A process of reverse naming seems to have occurred with some people referring to the area of Formby around this station as "Freshfield". In reality, there is no such place and certainly no separate village from Formby. This can be appreciated when one considers that the Formby's parish church and, for some time, the centre of village life in Green Lane, lies within the area of northern Formby that is sometimes described as Freshfield.
Although many living in the area claim to live in Freshfield over Formby, many accept the dominance of Formby in the area and there have been no reported cases of violance due to the well-known rivalry of the two towns.
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Freshfield as a place was named after the fields the village was built upon. The fields described as once owned by a certain Mr Fresh.
