Sovereign state United Kingdom Region North West England Area rank 145th Ceremonial county Lancashire University Myerscough College | Constituent country England Admin. HQ Poulton-le-Fylde Area 282.3 km² Founded 1974 Team Fleetwood Town F.C. | |
Time zone Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) Points of interest Morecambe Bay, Beacon Fell - Lancashire, Fleetwood Pier, Pharos Lighthouse, Fair Snape Fell Destinations Fleetwood, Thornton‑Cleveleys, Garstang, Morecambe Bay, Scorton - Lancashire | ||
Wyre is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. The population of the Non-metropolitan district at the 2011 census was 107,749. Its council is based in Poulton-le-Fylde.
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Map of Wyre District, UK
The district is named after the River Wyre, which runs through the district. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of the municipal borough of Fleetwood, along with Poulton-le-Fylde, Preesall, Garstang and Thornton-Cleveleys urban districts and various Rural Districts.
Urban areas
Civil parishes
- Barnacre with Bonds
- Bleasdale
- Cabus
- Catterall
- Claughton
- Fleetwood (town council)
- Forton
- Garstang (town council)
- Great Eccleston
- Hambleton
- Inskip-with-Sowerby
- Kirkland
- Myerscough and Bilsborrow
- Nateby
- Nether Wyresdale
- Out Rawcliffe
- Pilling
- Preesall (town council)
- Stalmine-with-Staynall
- Upper Rawcliffe with Tarnacre
- Winmarleigh
Local elections
Elections to Wyre Borough Council take place every four years on the first Thursday in May. All 55 councillors are elected from 26 wards. Since the formation of the council in 1973 it has been under the control of the Conservative Party with the exception of one term from 1995 to 1999 when the Labour Party held control of the council.
Following the most recent election held on 5 May 2011 the composition of the council is as follows:
Parliament
Wyre is split into three Parliamentary Constituencies - Wyre and Preston North, Lancaster and Fleetwood and Blackpool North and Cleveleys. This was recently changed as part of the Boundary changes for the United Kingdom general election, 2010. Before this change it had been split into three Lancaster and Wyre, Blackpool North and Fleetwood and Fylde.