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 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 18,115.
Poulton's Market Place, looking south from St Chad's Church
Poulton-le-Fylde’s Market Place, looking north, by A. R. Quinton, c. 1920
The Old Town Hall, on Church Street, now a public house
Poulton Civic Centre, head offices for Wyre Borough Council
The Fylde is a coastal plain in western Lancashire, England. It is roughly a 13-mile-long (21-kilometre) square-shaped peninsula, bounded by Morecambe Bay to the north, the Ribble estuary to the south, the Irish Sea to the west, and the foot of the Bowland hills to the east which approximates to a section of the M6 motorway and West Coast Main Line.
Ribble estuary, looking west, separating the West Lancashire Coastal Plain (left) from the Fylde (right)
Countryside near the Wyre Estuary
Fylde coast, aerial photograph