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n. A town and resort in Lancashire, England
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Blackpool is a seaside resort and unitary authority area in Lancashire, England, on England's northwest coast. The town is on the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, northwest of Bolton and northwest of Manchester. It had an estimated population of 142,065 at the 2011 Census.
Throughout the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, Blackpool was a coastal hamlet in Lancashire's Hundred of Amounderness, and remained such until the mid-18th century when it became fashionable in England to travel to the coast in the summer to bathe in sea water to improve well-being. In 1781, visitors attracted to Blackpool's sandy beach were able to use a new private road, built by Thomas Clifton and Sir Henry Hoghton. Stagecoaches began running to Blackpool from Manchester in the same year, and from Halifax in 1782. In the early 19th century, Henry Banks and his son-in-law John Cocker erected new buildings in Blackpool such that its population grew from less than 500 in 1801 to over 2,500 in 1851. St John's Church in Blackpool was consecrated in 1821.
Blackpool rose to prominence as a major centre of tourism in England when a railway was built in the 1840s connecting it to the industrialised regions of Northern England. The railway made it much easier and cheaper for visitors to reach Blackpool, triggering an influx of settlers, such that in 1876 Blackpool was incorporated as a borough, governed by its own town council and aldermen. In 1881, Blackpool was a booming resort with a population of 14,000 and a promenade complete with piers, fortune-tellers, public houses, trams, donkey rides, fish-and-chip shops and theatres. By 1901 the population of Blackpool was 47,000, by which time its place was cemented as "the archetypal British seaside resort". By 1951 it had grown to 147,000.
Shifts in tastes, combined with opportunities for Britons to travel overseas, affected Blackpool's status as a leading resort in the late 20th century. Nevertheless, Blackpool's urban fabric and economy remains relatively undiversified, and firmly rooted in the tourism sector, and the borough's seafront continues to attract millions of visitors every year. In addition to its sandy beaches, Blackpool's major attractions and landmarks include Blackpool Tower, Blackpool Illuminations, the Pleasure Beach, Blackpool Zoo, Sandcastle Water Park, the Winter Gardens, and the UK's only surviving first-generation tramway.
Blackpool is a British television musical comedy drama serial, produced in-house by the BBC. It was screened on BBC One as six one-hour episodes on Thursday nights at 9pm from 11 November to 16 December 2004. When retransmitted by BBC America in 2005, it was renamed Viva Blackpool, and went on to win a Peabody Award for BBC Worldwide, the commercial overseas distribution subsidiary of the BBC. A sequel in the form of a TV movie was produced by the BBC, also called Viva Blackpool in the UK (2006).
Blackpool is a seaside town in England.
Blackpool may also refer to:
Places- Greater Blackpool, the urban area surrounding Blackpool
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Blackpool (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary constituency and its successors:
- Blackpool North
- Blackpool South
- Blackpool North and Fleetwood
- Blackpool North and Cleveleys
- Blackpool, County Cork, a suburb of Cork City
- Blackpool, Devon
- Blackpool, Pembrokeshire
- Blackpool, New Zealand
- Blackpool Border Crossing, Border crossing in southern Quebec, Canada
- Blackpool Gate, Cumbria, England
- Black Pool, a hotspring in Yellowstone National Park
- Black pool, a form of pocket billiards.
- Blackpool F.C., an English football club
- Blackpool F.C. (South Africa), a South African football club
- A.F.C. Blackpool, an English football club
- Blackpool Panthers, a rugby league club
- Mighty Blackpool, a Sierra Leonean football club
- Blackpool Dance Festival, a prestigious ballroom dance competition
- Blackpool (TV serial), a 2004 BBC television drama series
- Under Blackpool Lights, a DVD by The White Stripes
- HMS Blackpool, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy
Blackpool was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Blackpool in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election, when it was replaced by the new Blackpool North and Blackpool South constituencies.
Usage examples of "blackpool".
He remembers years and years ago now, when he was still living in Blackpool, crossing the Pennines to the Ilkley Festival.
He awakens, reasonably refreshed, in a hotel lobby, as it seems to be the Metropole, he believes, or it could equally well be the Grand, or the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool or, for all he knows, that bloody place in Dublin, where he recollects once falling asleep in just such a comfortable armchair as this.
He was once on the verge of ghosting the memoirs of a sword-swallower he knew up in Blackpool, but the pair of them were always too pissed.
Even in Blackpool, his homeland, when working on the dodgems, he always felt he was giving the impression of someone who was only playing at working the dodgems.
Mumbling something about an old friend from Blackpool and just dropping in for a cup of tea, he follows Mags up the stairs.
It is a question Duffy has not been asked in years, not in fact since he left Blackpool, where anyone seen with a pen in his top pocket may be taken for a writer.
They sprinted down the hallway and into the foyer, where Blackpool stood, calmly holding the door.
Spread out before him a gazette of English and Welsh seaside towns preserved in pink sugar: Blackpool, Llandudno, Tenby, Brighton.
Copyright 1998 by Kane Steven Blackpool leaned back in his leather-upholstered chair, a look of mock regret on his face.
The firs thing he remembered was the smiling face of Steven Blackpool as he held up the eviction notice in front of the tear-filled faces of his parents.
Kahn told him that more than anything he wanted revenge against Hamatochi, especially Blackpool, who had ordered the execution of the shapeshifters.
Prospero got one glimpse of Blackpool with his throat torn out before he dove through the plate glass window of the office with Kahn in tow.
His mission to assassinate Steven Blackpool had cost him the life of his dearest friend.
His name was Tony and he was from the flat brown alluvial Lancashire farm country inland from Blackpool Bay.
They packed her clothes, all except for the tracksuit Barbs wore for skydiving, and the dress she had worn to Blackpool when Penny and Kate had to be her proxies on the Big Max.