Thornton-Cleveleys

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Coordinates: 53°52′26″N 3°01′16″W / 53.874°N 3.021°W

Thornton-Cleveleys
Thornton-Cleveleys Thornton-Cleveleys shown within Lancashire
Population	31,157 (2001 Census)
District	Wyre
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Thornton-Cleveleys
Postcode district	FY5
Dialling code	01253
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Blackpool North and Cleveleys
	Wyre and Preston North
List of places UK England Lancashire

Thornton-Cleveleys is an unparished area (and former urban district), currently in the English local government district of Wyre, Lancashire, covering the towns of Thornton and Cleveleys. It forms part of the Blackpool Urban Area.

The civil parish of Thornton became an urban district in 1900, and was renamed Thornton-Cleveleys in 1927.^[1]

On 1 April 1974, the urban district became part of the Borough of Wyre. Thornton-Cleveleys corresponds with six wards of the borough.

According to the 2001 census Thornton-Cleveleys has a population of 31,157. The population of the individual borough council wards was recorded as:

Bourne: 6,121
Cleveleys Park: 5,994
Jubilee: 4,186
Norcross: 3,738
Staina: 5,267
Victoria: 5,851^[2]

Sport

Thornton-Cleveleys is home to Thornton-Cleveleys RUFC who play rugby in the RFU Northern Division, North Lancs 1. Their home ground is the YMCA sport center in Thornton.

Thornton-Cleveleys FC and Norcross & Warbreck FC play football in The West Lancashire Football League, both side's home pitches are based in Thornton.

Fylde Flyers Ice Hockey Team are based in the SubZero Leisure Ice Rink (opened in 2011), Jubilee Park, Thornton-Cleveleys, and play in the EIHA North Division 2.

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External links

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v t e Borough of Wyre

Towns	Fleetwood Garstang Poulton-le-Fylde Preesall Thornton-Cleveleys Thornton Cleveleys

Villages	Bilsborrow Bleasdale Bonds Bowgreave Cabus Calder Vale Carleton Catterall Churchtown Dolphinholme Eagland Hill Forton Great Eccleston Hambleton Inskip Knott End-on-Sea Nateby Oakenclough Out Rawcliffe Pilling Rossall Scorton Scronkey St Michael's on Wyre Stake Pool Stalmine Winmarleigh

Parishes	Barnacre-with-Bonds Bleasdale Cabus Catterall Claughton Fleetwood Forton Garstang Great Eccleston Hambleton Inskip-with-Sowerby Kirkland Myerscough & Bilsborrow Nateby Nether Wyresdale Out Rawcliffe Pilling Preesall Scorton Stalmine-with-Staynall Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre Winmarleigh

Transport	Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad Blackpool tramway Fleetwood Branch Line Garstang & Knot-End Railway North Lancs Steam Navigation Preston & Wyre Railway Railway stations: Poulton-le-Fylde Disused: Burn Naze Halt Carr Lane Cockerham Cross Halt Fleetwood Garstang and Catterall Garstang Town Knott End-on-Sea Nateby Pilling Poulton Curve Halt Preesall Thornton–Cleveleys Wyre Dock

Churches	Barnacre: All Saints Bilsborrow: St Hilda Bonds: Sts Mary and Michael Churchtown: St Helen Fleetwood: St Mary St Nicholas St Peter Garstang: St Thomas Pilling: Old St John the Baptist St John the Baptist Poulton: St John the Evangelist St Chad Preesall: St Oswald St Michael's: St Michael Scorton: St Peter Thornton: Christ Church Winmarleigh: St Luke

Other buildings & structures	Beach Lighthouse Fleetwood Museum Fleetwood Pier Forton Services Greenhalgh Castle Highbury Stadium RNAS Inskip Listed in Fleetwood Listed in Poulton Marsh Mill North Euston Hotel Pharos Lighthouse Shard Bridge Winmarleigh Hall Wyresdale Park Wyre Light

Education	Baines School Blackpool and The Fylde College Garstang Community Academy Millfield High School Myerscough College Rossall School Saint Aidan's Technology College Stanah Community Primary School

Sport	Fleetwood Flyers Fleetwood Town F.C. Fylde Flyers

Media	Fleetwood Weekly News

Topography	Hills: Fair Snape Fell Parlick Rivers: Brock Calder Wyre

Politics	Council elections 2003 2007 2011 Constituencies: Fylde North Lancaster and Fleetwood Lancaster and Wyre Wyre and Preston North

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