Place:Fylde (borough), Lancashire, England

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The Borough of Fylde is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. It covers part of the Fylde plain, after which it is named. The council's headquarters are in St Annes.

Fylde borough was formed under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the borough of Lytham St Annes (the original towns of Lytham and St Anne's-on-the-Sea), Kirkham Urban District, and Fylde Rural District.

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• Lancashire Online Parish Clerks provide free online information from the various parishes, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire.
• FS Lancashire Research Wiki
• A map of Lancashire circa 1888 (before the existence of rural and urban districts) supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time
• A map of Lancashire circa 1954 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time
• The Lancashire Rootsweb page includes a list of webpages produced by family historians with connections in the county. Some of these pages may no longer exist.
• Rootsweb mailing lists still have entries for the county, for Merseyside, and for individual towns and cities.