The town of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, has been a centre of English tourism since railway lines opened the seaside resort in the 1800s. Nestled against the Irish Sea, it has a population of about 144,000, making it the fourth-largest city in North West England, after Liverpool, Manchester and Warrington. Blackpool is a 40 minute drive northwest of Manchester.
Blackpool is located on the Fylde, a coastal plain that covers a 13 square wireless internet connection peninsula, on the west coast of Lancashire County, England. The M6 marks the inland (eastern) border with Morecambe Bay to the north, the Ribble estuary to the south and the the Irish Sea to the computer network maintenance Towns within a short drive of Blackpool and included in the official Blackpool Urban Area are Fleetwood, Cleveleys and Lytham St Annes. Nearby, but inland as far as the peninsula is concerned, are Poulton-le-Fylde and Thornton. The central-southern part of this coastal plain is home to the villages of Kirkham, Wesham, Knott End, Wrea Green, Freckleton, Warton, Hambleton, Great Eccleston and Pilling.
As we can see by this list of human settlements within a 13 square mile area, the Fylde has become a highly urbanized area over the centuries. A 12,000 year old animal skeleton with barbed arrows in it that was found on the Fylde in 1970 gives proof that the area has been home to human beings at least since the Paleolithic era.
Blackpool is heavily dependent on post office broadband as are many sea side towns. From the turn of the 19th/20th centuries until about 1950 Blackpool flourished as the preferred location during the summer season for increasingly well paid factory workers from the north of England and Glasgow, Scotland. While it remains the most popular seaside resort in the UK, cheap air fare and reliable train travel on the continent have conspired to reduce Blackpool's attractiveness for those seeking sand and sea.
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