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Westby-with-Plumptons is a civil parish in Lancashire, North West England. The parish is in Fylde district and contains the hamlets of Great Plumpton, Little Plumpton, Lower Ballam, Higher Ballam, Moss Side (formerly Brown Moss Side), Peel, and Westby. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,205, increasing to 1,205 at the 2011 Census. Westby and Plumpton were both mentioned in the Domesday Book, as "Westbi" and "Pluntun".
Westby-with-Plumptons is part of the Warton and Westby ward, which is represented by three councillors on Fylde Borough Council On Lancashire County Council it is part of Fylde West ward, which elects one councillor.
The parish is generally low-lying, with arable land in the south and pasture in the north, which rises to above sea level at Great Plumpton in the north-east of the parish.
The railway from Preston to Blackpool South runs through the parish, with one station in the parish, at Moss Side where the railway crosses the B5259 Lytham to Kirkham road at a level crossing.
The parish is now the home of the steel farm-building construction company J. Wareing & Son (Wrea Green) Ltd 1, which was for many years based in the neighbouring village of Wrea Green.
In June 2015 Lancashire County Council voted to reject an application by Cuadrilla Resources to extract shale gas by means of fracking at a site at Little Plumpton.