Blackpool is a large town and seaside resort on the Lancashire coast
in North West England. The town is on the Irish Sea, between the
Ribble and Wyre estuaries, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Preston, 27
miles (43 km) north of Liverpool, 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Bolton
and 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Manchester. It had an estimated
population of 139,720 at the 2011 Census, making it the most populous
town in Lancashire.Throughout the Medieval 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
improve well-being. In 1781, visitors attracted to Blackpool's 7-mile
(11 km) 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 which increased its population 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 people. Blackpool Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter