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JOHN PORTER.
Fleetwood, August, 1876.
ERRATA.
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Page 147, line 9 from the bottom, for Gulph, read Gulf.
Page 183, line 2, for 1857, read 1657.
Page 256, dele the heading Coasting.
Page 286, line 2 from the bottom, for fortified, read forfeited.
Page 289, line 13 from the bottom, for the first funds, read expenses.
HISTORY OF THE FYLDE.
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CHAPTER I.
THE ANCIENT BRITONS, ROMANS, ANGLO-SAXONS, AND DANES.
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“See! in what crowds the uncouth forms advance:
Each would outstrip the other, each prevent
Our careful search, and offer to your gaze,
Unask’d, his motley features. Wait awhile,
My curious friends! and let us first arrange
In proper order your promiscuous throng.”
The large district of western Lancashire, denominated from time immemorial the Fylde, embraces one third at least of the Hundred of Amounderness, and a line drawn from Ashton, on the Ribble, to Churchtown, on the Wyre, forms the nearest approach to an eastern boundary attainable, for although the section cut off by its means includes more land and villages than properly appertain to the Fylde, a more westerly division would exclude others which form part of it. The whole of the parishes of Bispham, Lytham, Poulton, and St. Michael’s; and the parish of Kirkham, exclusive of Goosnargh-with-Newsham and Whittingham, are comprised in the Fylde country.