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Poulton-le-Fylde

Poulton-le-Fylde, commonly shortened to Poulton, is a market town in Lancashire, England, situated on the coastal plain called the Fylde.

Poulton-le-Fylde
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The place

Poulton-le-Fylde, commonly shortened to Poulton, is a market town in Lancashire, England, situated on the coastal plain called the Fylde. In the 2021–2022 United Kingdom censuses, it had a population of 18,115.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    St Chad's Church

From Wikivoyage: Poulton-le-Fylde, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

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Getting to Poulton-le-Fylde

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 58 km · Manchester (MAN), 73 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 88 km
  • Liverpool → Poulton-le-Fylde
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Poulton-le-Fylde
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–10
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Poulton-le-Fylde
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Poulton-le-Fylde

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 Poulton-le-Fylde. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Blackpool, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    236 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    272 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    298 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    318 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    370 km

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Around it

Next door to Poulton-le-Fylde

Poulton-le-Fylde is 21 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.