Poulton-Le-Fylde

The town gained its name from the Wyre estuary, which lies less than 2 kilometres to the north-east at Skippool. The name Poulton was created by combining the Old English words Pol, for pool or creek, and Tun, meaning a farmstead or enclosure. Thus the name signifies "settlement by the pool".

In the eighteenth and nineteenth century Poulton was the centre of the farming community in this part of the Fylde. The most famous person in the nineteenth centuries was William Hodgson, who was a County Councillor for more than sixty years. He was born in Preston in 1858, although his ancestors had lived in Poulton for many generations. William Hodgson became the first chairman in 1900 when Poulton became an Urban District Council.