I had a hard time believing what is happening to Blackpool in recent years. Let me confess; I was not excited about adding Blackpool to the list of the worst places in the UK or the worst seaside towns in England in my videos. I just had to do so because that is consistent with our ideals of standing by nothing but the truth, no matter whose ego is bruised. It’s saddening to see a grim example of how a lovely town can fall from grace to grass in the seaside town of Blackpool. But what happened to Blackpool? Owing to the plenitude of negative rankings of the town these days, I decided to probe deeper into those rankings. My discoveries will definitely you.
Where Is Blackpool?
Blackpool is a large seaside town and resort in Lancashire. Located northwest coast of England, Blackpool is the main settlement within the Blackpool borough. Perhaps best known by sports lovers for being home to Blackpool FC, or for Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Blackpool Tower, the town is also a popular seaside resort in the UK, but now among the worst of them.
It is the town currently with the largest population in the county with 145,007 residents. The urban settlement’s last known population of 147,663 makes it the most populous settlement in Lancashire and the 50th in the UK. This huge town occupying an area of 34.47 kilometers square (or 13.31 square miles) used to be a great resort. Sitting by the Irish Sea, it is between the Ribble and Wyre rivers, 43 kilometers (or 27 miles) north of Liverpool and 64 kilometers (or 40 miles) northwest of Manchester.
The Historical Perspectives of Blackpool
Many people would trace the history of Blackpool as far back as the period of the start of railways when they thought those seaside towns started growing. However, the local history of this town goes back much further than that! It even predates those holidays of the Lancashire Mill towns. Two discoveries gave this hint in 1970.
A skeleton of an elk was found on a site at Carleton, across Blackpool Sixth Form College. Barbed arrowheads found with that carcass are an indication that it didn’t die naturally but rather was hunted by man. And it was estimated to be over 11,000 years old which was so far the earliest evidence of human habitation in the north of Britain. The second set of discoveries was the Roman coins found at Rosall some of which had been in existence around AD 80.
The name of the town Blackpool itself came from the discolored waters of ‘le pull.’ The waters discolored streams draining Marton Mere and Marton Moss through peat lands. As the stream ran alongside Blackpool Old Road it created a pool with a seemingly black color that went into the sea near the place now known as Manchester Square. The name was first seen as ‘Blackpoole‘ in the 1602 Bispham parish baptismal register.
Edward Tyldesley, the Squire of Myerscough, who was the son of the Royalist Sir Thomas Tyldesley, was the first to build a house in the area which was named ‘Foxhall.’ Foxhall was built towards the end of the 1600s.
The Glorious Past
Back in the late 1780s, there were four large hotels catering to the welltodo in Blackpool society namely, Bailey’s, which is now the Metropole, and Forshaw’s, now the Clifton Arms, Plus Hudson’s, and Hull’s. Based on the standard of those days, they were in the class of at least 8star hotels of modern times. At Bonny’s, there was another offer of accommodation at King Edward VII, Chapel Street, and yet, at Elston’s, later known as the York Hotel. Visitors to the coast at this time enjoyed horse riding on the beach. They could walk on the 6 yards wide promenade and enjoy archery facilities together with bowling greens.
The most significant event that contributed to the early growth of Blackpool occurred in 1846. That was when a branch line to Blackpool from Poulton was completed. It was on the main Preston and Wyre Joint Railway route from Preston to Fleetwood. While this resulted in the decline of Fleetwood resort, it caused a serious boom for Blackpool.



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