Place:Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England

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Lytham St Annes is a seaside town in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England. It is on the Fylde coast, directly south of Blackpool on the Ribble Estuary. The population at the 2011 census was 42,954. The town is almost contiguous with Blackpool but is separated from it by Blackpool Airport. The town is made up of the four areas of Lytham, Ansdell, Fairhaven and St Annes-on-Sea.

Lytham St Annes has four golf courses and links, the most notable being the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, which regularly hosts the Open Championship.

Lytham St Annes is a reasonably affluent area with residents' earnings among the highest in the North of England.

Lytham became a municipal borough replacing St. Anne's-on-the-Sea and Lytham in 1922. Prior to that the local municipality was Lytham Urban District (1894-1922). See Lytham for further details.

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