Page 7, line 15, after the word _crossing_, insert _the Main Dyke from_. This Dyke is crossed after leaving, and not before reaching, Staining, as stated. Page 147, line 9 from the bottom, for _Gulph_, read _Gulf_. Page 183, line 2, for 1857, read 1657. Page 256, dele the heading _Coasting_. Page 286, line 2 from the bottom, for _fortified_, read _forfeited_. Page 289, line 13 from the bottom, for the first _funds_, read _expenses_. CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER I. THE ANCIENT BRITONS, ROMANS, ANGLO-SAXONS AND DANES 1-29 CHAPTER II. THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO JAMES THE FIRST 30-54 CHAPTER III. JAMES THE FIRST TO QUEEN VICTORIA 55-86 CHAPTER IV. CONDITIONS, CUSTOMS, AND SUPERSTITIONS OF THE PEOPLE 87-114 CHAPTER V. COSTUMES, COUNTRY, RIVERS AND SEA 115-150 CHAPTER VI. THE PEDIGREES OF ANCIENT FAMILIES 151-185 CHAPTER VII. PARISH OF POULTON-LE-FYLDE. POULTON 186-217 CHAPTER VIII. FLEETWOOD-ON-WYRE 218-267 CHAPTER IX. THORNTON, CARLETON, MARTON, AND HARDHORN-WITH-NEWTON 268-296 CHAPTER X. THE PARISH OF BISPHAM. BISPHAM-WITH-NORBRECK. LAYTON-WITH-WARBRECK 297-310 CHAPTER XI. BLACKPOOL 311-362 CHAPTER XII. PARISH OF KIRKHAM. KIRKHAM 363-401 CHAPTER XIII. FRECKLETON. WARTON. RIBBY-WITH-WREA. WEETON-WITH-PREESE. GREENHALGH-WITH-THISTLETON. GREAT AND LITTLE SINGLETON. CLIFTON-WITH-SALWICK. NEWTON-WITH-SCALES. HAMBLETON, &C. 402-428 CHAPTER XIV. PARISH OF LYTHAM. LYTHAM. ST. ANNES-ON-THE-SEA 429-453 CHAPTER XV. PARISH OF ST. MICHAEL’S-ON-WYRE. UPPER RAWCLIFFE-WITH-TARNACRE. GREAT ECCLESTON. OUT RAWCLIFFE. ELSWICK. WOOD PLUMPTON. INSKIP-WITH-SOWERBY 454-474 PAUPERISM AND THE FYLDE UNION 475-480 [Illustration] HISTORY OF THE FYLDE. CHAPTER I. THE ANCIENT BRITONS, ROMANS, ANGLO-SAXONS, AND DANES. “See! in what crowds the uncouth forms advance: Each would outstrip the other, each prevent Our careful search, and offer to your gaze, Unask’d, his motley features. Wait awhile, My curious friends! and let us first arrange In proper order your promiscuous throng.” The large district of western Lancashire, denominated from time immemorial the Fylde, embraces one third at least of the Hundred of Amounderness, and a line drawn from Ashton, on the Ribble, to Churchtown, on the Wyre, forms the nearest approach to an eastern boundary attainable, for although the section cut off by its means includes more land and villages than properly appertain to the Fylde, a more westerly division would exclude others which form part of it. The whole of the parishes of Bispham, Lytham, Poulton, and St. Michael’s; and the parish of Kirkham, exclusive of Goosnargh-with-Newsham and Whittingham, are comprised in the Fylde country. The word Amounderness was formerly considered to signify the “Promontory of Agmund,” or “Edmund,” and this origin is alluded to in a treatise written some years since by Mr. Thomas Baines on the “Valley of the Mersey,” in which the following remarks occur:—“In the year 911 the Northumbrians themselves began the war, for they despised the peace which King Edward and his ‘Witan’ offered them, and overran the land of Mercia. After collecting great booty they were overtaken on their march home by the forces of the West Saxons and the Mercians, who put them to flight and slew many thousands of them. Two Danish Kings and five Earls were slain in this battle. Amongst the Earls slain was Agmund, the governor, from whom the Hundred of Agmunderness (Amounderness) was probably named.” In order that the reader may properly comprehend why Mr. Baines should surmise that Amounderness received its title from the Danish Earl, Agmund, it may be stated that the extensive province of Northumbria, then colonised by the Northmen or Danes, embraced, amongst other territory, the district afterwards called Lancashire, and, consequently, the Hundred of Amounderness would be in a great measure under Danish governance. When, however, we call to mind that the Danes did not invade England until A.D. 787, and learn that this Hundred was entered...