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SHORE (South), a village and a chapelry in Bispham parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the coast, and on the Blackpooland Lytham railway, nominally 1 mile S of Blackpool, but really almost continuous with it; consists of ranges of villas and terraces, fronting the sea; and has a r. station, a post-office under Preston, a good bathing beach, saltwater baths, a central spacious brick building called College Francais, a neat brick church of 1836, a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school. The chapelry has no assigned limits. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200.* Patron, Col. Clifton.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Lancashire AncC |
Place names: | SHORE | SHORE SOUTH | SOUTH SHORE |
Place: | South Shore |
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