Places to see in ( Fleetwood - UK )
Places to see in ( Fleetwood - UK )
Fleetwood is a town and civil parish within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying at the northwest corner of the Fylde. The site of the town has been continuously inhabited since the Middle Ages. 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. He commissioned the distinguished Victorian architect Decimus Burton to design a number of substantial civic buildings, including two lighthouses. Hesketh-Fleetwood's transport terminus schemes failed to materialise.
Decline of the fishing industry began in the 1960s, hastened by the Cod Wars with Iceland, though fish processing is still a major economic activity in Fleetwood. The town's most notable employer today is Lofthouse of Fleetwood, manufacturer of the lozenge Fisherman's Friend which is exported around the world.
Fleetwood is located on the Fylde Peninsula, 8 miles (13 km) north of Blackpool, on the western side of the mouth of the River Wyre. The town itself is on a peninsula, almost 2 miles (3 km) wide, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea, to the north by Morecambe Bay and to the east by the River Wyre. Access to Fleetwood is thus restricted, and for many years there were only two roads into and out of the town. A large sandbank, the North Wharf, extends some 2 1⁄4 miles (3.6 km) north into Morecambe Bay, and is exposed at low tide.
Fleetwood's economy still revolves around the traditional areas of fishing, tourism, port activity and light industry, but since the early 1970s the town has continued to struggle economically. A government report in 2006 stated that three of the town's five wards fall into the 5% to 10% most deprived wards in England. The town's largest and most prominent single employer is Lofthouse's of Fleetwood Ltd., manufacturers of Fisherman's Friend—a menthol lozenge popular worldwide and especially in Japan.
The Mount and the entire length of Fleetwood Promenade has an uninterrupted view across Morecambe Bay, a view described by author Bill Bryson in Chapter 23 of his book Notes From a Small Island as easily one of the most beautiful in the world, with unforgettable views across to the green and blue Lakeland hills: Scafell, Coniston Old Man, the Langdale Pikes. Directly across the Esplanade from the Mount lies the Marine Hall and Marine Gardens, Wyre Borough's largest entertainment venue, opened in 1935.
The 13 hectares of Fleetwood Memorial Park was developed out of the earlier Warrenhurst Park, itself an early-C20 park designed by Thomas Lumb of Blackpool. In 1917 the park was renamed Memorial Park in memory of those who died in the First World War. The memorial statue was added a few years later and memorial trees planted by the children who lost relatives. Fleetwood Pier, also known as 'Victoria Pier', was a feature of the town from its construction in 1910 until it was destroyed by fire in September 2008.
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Drive from North West Leeds to South East Barnsley, Yorkshire, England - 13th August, 2016
Views from a drive from Cookridge in North West Leeds to Brampton in South East Barnsley, West & South Yorkshire, England - 13th August, 2016.
I have recently invested in a Veho Muvi K2 Camera (an action / sports cam, which looks and acts like a Go-Pro for half the price). Along with the camera I purchased a suction windscreen mount, in order to experiment with the type of films that I would be able to make I have made several driving films, and this is the first of them.
The footage has been edited in iMovie on an iPad Pro and speeded up four times, the film has been dubbed with some looped audio footage that was taken along the M621.
The film begins in Cookridge (North West Leeds) and ends at Brampton (South East Barnsley). Along the way, the following street names, roads and locations are identified: Cookridge, Leeds, Moseley Wood Crescent, Moseley Wood Walk, Green Lane, Wood Hill Road, Tinshill Road, Station Road, Horsforth, Troy Road, Low Lane, Horsforth Woodside Roundabout, Hawksworth Road, Abbey Road, A65, Kirkstall, Kirkstall Road, Burley, LS3, A58, Wellington Road, Armley Gyratory, Holbeck, Ingram Distributor, Junction 2 M621, M621, Hunslet, Stourton, Rothwell, M1, Robin Hood, Lofthouse, Wakefield, Lawns, Carr Gate, Kirkhamgate, Ossett, Horbury, Durkar, Crigglestone, Woolley Edge, Haigh, Barnsley, Kexborough, Barugh Green, Higham, Dodworth, Worsborough, Birdwell, Tankersley Roundabout, Birdwell Roundabout, Dearne Valley Parkway, A6195, Rockingham Roundabout, Hoyland, Shortwood Roundabout, Platts Common, Platts Common Roundabout, Wombwell Wood Roundabout, Roebuck Hill Roundabout, Jump, Hemmingfield Road Roundabout, Hemmingfield, Cortonwood Roundabout, Brampton, Wath Road Roundabout, Newlands Way, Meadowgate and the Premier Inn Barnsley Dearne Valley.
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