Wyre

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Coordinates: 53°54′00″N 2°48′32″W / 53.900°N 2.809°W / 53.900; -2.809

Borough of Wyre
Borough
Shown within non-metropolitan Lancashire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	North West England
Ceremonial county	Lancashire
Admin. HQ	Poulton-le-Fylde
Government
• Type	Wyre Borough Council
• Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
• Executive:	Conservative
• MPs:	Mark Menzies, Eric Ollerenshaw, Ben Wallace
Area
• Total	109.1 sq mi (282.6 km²)
Area rank	145th
Population (2011 est.)
• Total	107,700
• Rank	Ranked 214th
• Density	990/sq mi (380/km²)
Time zone	Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0)
• Summer (DST)	British Summer Time (UTC+1)
ONS code	30UQ (ONS) E07000128 (GSS)
Ethnicity	96.6% White 1.9% S.Asian^[1]
Website	wyre.gov.uk

Wyre is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Poulton-le-Fylde.

The district is named after the River Wyre, which runs through the district. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of the municipal borough of Fleetwood, along with Poulton-le-Fylde, Preesall and Thornton-Cleveleys urban districts and Garstang Rural District.

Town and Parish Councils

Urban areas

Fleetwood
Garstang
Poulton-le-Fylde
Thornton Cleveleys

Parish Councils

Barnacre with Bonds
Bleasdale
Cabus
Catterall
Claughton on Brock
Fleetwood (Town council)
Forton
Garstang (Town council)
Great Eccleston
Hambleton
Inskip-with-Sowerby
Kirkland, Lancashire
Myerscough and Bilsborrow
Nateby
Nether Wyresdale
Out Rawcliffe
Pilling
Preesall (Town Council)
Scorton
Stalmine-with-Staynall
Upper Rawcliffe with Tarnacre
Winmarleigh

Local elections

Main article: Wyre local elections

Elections to Wyre Borough Council take place every four years on the first Thursday in May. All 55 councillors are elected from 26 wards. Since the formation of the council in 1973 it has been under the control of the Conservative Party with the exception of one term from 1995 to 1999 when the Labour Party held control of the council.

Following the most recent election held on 5 May 2011 the composition of the council is as follows:

	Seats	±
Conservative	40	–5
Labour	15	+7
Liberal Democrat	0	–1
Independent	0	–1

^[2]

Parliament

Wyre is split into three Parliamentary Constituencies - Wyre and Preston North, Lancaster and Fleetwood and Blackpool North and Cleveleys. This was recently changed as part of the Boundary changes for the United Kingdom general election, 2010. Before this change it had been split into three Lancaster and Wyre, Blackpool North and Fleetwood and Fylde.

External links

Wyre Council webite

References

↑ "Resident Population Estimates by Ethnic Group (Percentages)". Office for National Statistics. 30 October 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
↑ http://www.wyre.gov.uk/councillors

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

v t e Districts of North West England

Cheshire	Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Halton Warrington

Cumbria	Allerdale Barrow-in-Furness Carlisle Copeland Eden South Lakeland

Greater Manchester	Bolton Bury Manchester Oldham Rochdale Salford Stockport Tameside Trafford Wigan

Lancashire	Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Burnley Chorley Fylde Hyndburn Lancaster Pendle Preston Ribble Valley Rossendale South Ribble West Lancashire Wyre

Merseyside	Knowsley Liverpool St Helens Sefton Wirral

v t e Ceremonial county of Lancashire

North West England Portal

Unitary authorities	Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool

Boroughs or districts	City of Lancaster City of Preston Burnley Chorley Fylde Hyndburn Pendle Ribble Valley Rossendale South Ribble West Lancashire Wyre

Major settlements	Accrington Adlington Bacup Barnoldswick Blackburn Blackpool Brierfield Burnley Carnforth Chorley Clayton-le-Moors Cleveleys Clitheroe Colne Darwen Earby Fleetwood Garstang Great Harwood Haslingden Kirkham Lancaster Leyland Longridge Lytham St Annes Morecambe Nelson Ormskirk Oswaldtwistle Padiham Penwortham Poulton-le-Fylde Preesall Preston Rawtenstall Rishton Skelmersdale Thornton Wesham Whitworth See also: List of civil parishes in Lancashire

Rivers	Calder Darwen Douglas Hodder Irwell Lune Ribble Wyre

Canals	Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool

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