Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fylde like this:

FYLDE, a district in Lancashire; on the coast, N of the Ribble. It comprises the sub-district of Lytham, containing the parish of Lytham and the hamlet of Little Marton; the sub-district of Poulton-le-Fylde, containing the parish of Bispham, the townships of Poulton-le-Fylde, Hardhorn-with-Newton, Great and Little Carleton, Thornton-with-Fleetwood-on-Wyre, Great and Little Singleton, and the hamlet of Great Marton; and the sub-district of Kirkham, containing the townships of Kirkham, Freckleton, Warton, Elswick, C...

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lifton-with-Salwick, Newton-with-Scales, Bryning-with-Kellamergh, Ribby-with-Wrea, Westby-with-Plumpton, Weeton-with-Preese, Greenalgh -with - Thistleton, Medlad with -Wesham, Little Eccleston-with-Larbreck, and Treals, Rose-acre, and Wharles. Acres, 76, 397. Poor-rates in 1862, £7, 240. Pop. in 1851, 22, 002; in 1861, 25, 682. Houses, 4, 616. Marriages in 1860, 179; births, 831, -of which 83 were illegitimate; deaths, 491, -of which 163 were at ages under 5 years, and 17 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1, 574; births, 7, 475; deaths, 4, 499. The places of worship, in 1851, were 18 of the Church of England, with 8, 831 sittings; 8 of Independents, with, 2, 333 s.; 1 of Baptists, with 40 s.; 1 of Scotch Baptists, with 16 attendants; 2 of Quakers, with 50 s.; 9 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 1, 603 s.; 1 of Primitive Methodists, with 108 s.; 1 of Wesleyan Reformers, with 100 at.; and 5 of Roman Catholics, with 1, 186 s. The schools were 28 public day schools, with 2, 662 scholars; 39 private day schools, with 897 s.; 36 Sunday schools, with 2, 869 s.; and 4 evening schools for adults, with 86 s. The workhouse is in Kirkham.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Fylde by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Fylde within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	6

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Ribby	0	2
Wrea Green	0	2
Great Plumpton	0	2
Westby	0	2
Wesham	0	1
Kirkham	0	2
Bryning	0	2
Weeton	0	3
Greenhalgh	0	2
Medlar	0	2
Treales	0	2
Warton	0	2
Freckleton	0	2
Newton	0	2
Thistleton	0	1
Roseacre	0	2
Scales	0	1
Marton	0	2
Wharles	0	2
Staining	0	2