Freckleton
Freckleton is a village and civil parish on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, England, to the south of Kirkham and east of the seaside resort of Lytham St.
Freckleton is a village and civil parish on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, England, to the south of Kirkham and east of the seaside resort of Lytham St. Annes. In 2001 the parish had a population of 6,045, reducing to 6,019 at the 2011 Census. The village is near Warton, with its links to BAE Systems. Warton Aerodrome's 1.5 miles (2.4 km) runway is partly within Freckleton's boundary. Freckleton has a parish council, and is part of Fylde Borough, and Fylde constituency.
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Worth seeing in and around Freckleton
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St John the Evangelist's Church, Kirkham
St John the Evangelist's Church is in Ribby Road, Kirkham, Lancashire, England. It is an active Roman Catholic parish church in the diocese of Lancaster.
3.4 km · grade II listed church in Kirkham, Fylde, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Michael's Church, Kirkham
St Michael's Church is in the town of Kirkham, Lancashire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
3.5 km · church in Kirkham, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Wrea Green Duckpond
Feed the ducks, a traditional Wrea Green past-time.
- 02The Wild Discovery
Ribby Road, Wrea Green.
- 03Freckleton Air Disaster Memorial
In 1944 a US B-24 Liberator bomber crashed, hitting three houses a snack bar and a school, with the loss of 61 lives.
From Wikivoyage: Freckleton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Football: AFC Fylde were relegated in 2025 and now play soccer in National League North, the sixth tier. They play at Mill Farm Sports Village in Wesham. Club Day procession in Freckleton. Part of the Club Day weekend in June; the first of which is believed to have happened in the mid-19th century.
From Wikivoyage: Freckleton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Orathai
Station Road, Wrea Green.
- 02Dizzy Ducks Tea Rooms
Station Road, Wrea Green.
From Wikivoyage: Freckleton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Freckleton
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 47 km · Manchester (MAN), 59 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 80 km
- Stations
- Warton Aerodrome, 1.4 km · Kirkham and Wesham railway station, 3.9 km
- Liverpool → Freckleton39 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £6–9
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Freckleton51 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £7–9
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Freckleton87 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–15
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Freckleton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Freckleton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries no longer sail from nearby Fleetwood.
- Get inThe closest ferry routes are from Heysham near Morecambe to Douglas, Isle of Man, and from Liverpool to Dublin and Belfast.
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If you know how people move in Freckleton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Freckleton
Freckleton is 11 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Wartonvillage in Fylde, Lancashire, UK1.8 km
- Newton-with-Scalesvillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.7 km
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