Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Poulton, (or Poulton le Sands)

Poulton.-- (or Poulton le Sands), township, Lancaster par., N. Lancashire, on Morecambe Bay, 3½ miles NW. of Lancaster, 1725 ac. and 4363 foreshore, pop. 3931; the township forms a local government district called Poulton, Bare and Torrisholme. See MORECAMBE.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lancaster AP/Tn/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place names: POULTON     |     POULTON LE SANDS     |     POULTON OR POULTON LE SANDS
Place: Morecambe

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