Photographs of Knott End on Sea, Preesall and Pilling on the Lancashire Coast.
A view of Fleetwood over the Wyre from Knott End-on-Sea, Lancashire..
The Wyre Rose Ferry and Fleetwood lifeboat in dock on the Wyre at Fleetwood on the coast of Lancashire.
The Knott End Ferry at Fleetwood in Lancashire.
Knott End-on-Sea can be seen across the Wyre.
Passengers wait on the slipway for the Wyre Rose ferry at Knott End-on-Sea in Lancashire.
The short crossing over the River Wyre to Fleetwood is done in less than ten minutes.
The Wyre Rose ferry docking at the slipway of Knott End-on-Sea, having crossed the Wyre Estuary from Fleetwood in Lancashire.
Passengers embark from the Wyre Rose ferry onto the slipway at Knott End-on-Sea after taking the short Wyre crossing from Fleetwood on the Lancashire Coast.
The stainless steel LS Lowrie sculpture by Tom Elliot beside the slipway at Knott End-on-Sea in Lancashire.
Lowrie had a long-standing interest in the sea and was a frequent visitor to the Fylde Coast. The Fleetwood to Knott End ferry features in several of his paintings and it was here that he got his inspiration for his 1957 work, ‘The Jetty at Knott End'.
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Fleetwood Docks as seen from the slipway of Knott End-on-Sea, Lancashire
A panorama of Fleetwood from the slipway of Knott End-on-Sea in Lancashire.
A view over Morecambe Bay towards Black Combe and Barrow in Furness from Knott End-on-Sea on the Lancashire Coast.
St. John the Baptist's Church at Pilling in Lancashire.
Built in 1886–87 to replace the nearby older Church of St John the Baptist. This church in Gothic Revival style was designed by the Lancaster architects, Paley and Austin.
The Pilling Pig and Piglet at Fold House Caravan Park Pilling. A locomotive, built in 1955 for the National Coal Board., purchased by the caravan park and re-painted in the livery of the Garstang & Knott End Railway which had closed down in 1950. The original Pilling Pig had been aquired in 1875 and was so-named because of the sound of its whistle. The name stuck and all engines and even the line itself became known as The Pilling Pig.
The 8m/ 26ft high war memorial in the churchyard of St. John the Baptist's Church at Pilling in Lancashire.
Designed by Henry Paley from the Lancaster based firm of architects, Paley and Austin.
Damside Windmill from Broadfleet Bridge at Pilling on the Wyre Coast of Lancashire.
This old wooden post mill was built in 1808 by the Wyre millwright, Ralph Stater. Steam power was added to turn the lower grinding stones in 1886, while the upper ones continued to be turned by sails. Soon after, storm damage meant the sails had to be removed.
The mill is a private residence.
View over Morecambe Bay to Heysham Power Station and the Lakeland Fells from Fluke Hall Marsh at Pilling on the Lancashire Coast.
The sea defence embankment at Fluke Hall Marsh, Pilling on the Lancashire Coast.
Birds of the Bay: Oystercatcher at Fluke Hall, Pilling on the Lancashire Coast.
One of seven bird sculptures sited around Morecambe Bay by blacksmith, Chris Bramall of Ulverston.
Heysham Power Station and the Lakeland Fells can be seen in the distance.
St Oswald's Church, Preesall on the Fylde coastal plain of Lancashire.
The church was built 1896–1898 to a design by Hubert Austin of the Lancaster architectural firm Paley and Austin.
The 1836 Bethel United Reformed Church on Lancaster Road, Preesall near Knott End in Lancashire
The Black Bull, Preesall near Knott End on the Lancashire Coast.
In 1872 a group of men from Barrow in Furness stayed at the inn during their search for iron ore in the area. None was found, but they did discover a bed of rock salt, from which they took a sample. Upon returning to the inn, the landlord's 17-year-old daughter Dorothy Parkinson processed the sample by dissolving, filtering and boiling it. In doing so, she had created the first example of Preesall salt. In 1902, Preesall Salt Works was built on the east bank of the River Wyre, to the north of the village's salt marshes.
A well-head beside a brine pond (concealed behind the tall grasses) at Pressall near Knott End on the Lancashire Coast in Lancashire.
Large deposits of rock salt lie underground at Knott End and Preesall. Brine wells were first drilled here in the 1890s to pump fresh water down bore holes to dissolve the salt or halite deposits which could then be extracted by pipeline to an evaporation process. The brine fields here provided the raw material for the ICI chemical plant across the Wyre which produced both chlorine and salt.
A small brine pond at Pressall near Knott End on the Lancashire Coast.
The brine ponds are the result of subsidence from the salt extraction at the adjacent brine wells.