Thornton (Wyre)

11°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 11° / 10° · 32% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:20Sunset 16:31

9h 11m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Blackpool Marton, United Kingdom

• 5.2 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 3.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

144 reported · August 2026▼ 1% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences56
• Anti-social behaviour27
• Criminal damage & arson17
• Other theft12

Neighbourhood team: Bourne · Lancashire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

196 reported road collisions (2025)

65 killed or seriously injured · 262 casualties · 17.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

288 food businesses within 2 miles

• 209 rated 4–5 ★ (168 top)
• 12 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Poulton-le-Fylde (3.5 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£188,833 average▲ 1.8% YoY

Across Wyre · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£743 average monthly rent▲ 6.9% YoY

• 1 bed £527
• 2 bed £717
• 3 bed £854

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

6.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.3 times median annual pay (5.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,855 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (3.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (2.9 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

29 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 60 kW
• Nearest: Wyre - Thornton Little Theatre CP (0.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches29
• Playgrounds6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Remembrance services to take place across Wyre· 2 Nov 2026
• Wyre communities celebrate outstanding In Bloom Awards success· 30 Oct 2026
• Government confirms timetable for Local Government Reorganisation review in Lancashire· 29 Oct 2026
• Allotment sites formally determined as contaminated land· 23 Oct 2026
• Free family Halloween theatre returns to Wyre this half term· 20 Oct 2026

Source: Wyre Council

111,945 residents in Wyre · 397/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 57%
• 65+: 28%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,175
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,619
• Net moves+2,556

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Around the average in England

Ranked 150 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

13% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,461 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (24% of 55,960)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

56 schools · 14,179 pupils

40 primary · 7 secondary · 9 other

Ofsted: 18 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (86%)

51 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wyre

1,255 CQC-registered services

• Care homes424
• GP practices184
• Dentists248
• Homecare agencies288
• Hospitals & hospices38

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 9 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Lancashire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 8 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

125 applications decided

92% granted · 115 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Lorraine Beavers

Labour

Blackpool North and Fleetwood

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Lab 15
• Con 27
• Ref 4
• Oth 4

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools8
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens6
• Restaurants & cafés27

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,640 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£709 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,839 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

38% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 56,701 certificates

11.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

77% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 45% · Wind 30% · Gas 12% · Imports 11%

50 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.8 yrs women · 78.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Lancashire): 60.3 women · 59.3 men

74% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

7 GP surgeries · 8 pharmacies in FY5

• Cleveleys Group Practice
• The Thornton Practice
• The Crescent Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Blackpool North and Fleetwood:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases486 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth265 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK183 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately137 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Fund a medical cannabis trial for children left without NHS access since 2018103 local signatures · 6,235 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Trunnah Farmhouse · 0.1 km

  Trunnah Farmhouse is a historic building on Woodland Avenue in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, England. A former farmhouse with attached barn, dating to 1769, it is in rendered brick with a slate roof. The house has t…

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  Poolfoot Cottage · 0.5 km

  Poolfoot Cottage is a historic building on Heys Street in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, England. Originally a pair of cottages, the buildings were later converted into a single dwelling. It has cobble walls, now ren…

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  Marsh Mill · 0.6 km

  Marsh Mill is an 18th-century tower windmill in Thornton, Lancashire, England. It was built in 1794 by Ralph Slater for local landowner Bold Hesketh. It functioned as a corn mill until the 1920s and has been fully res…

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  ICI Hillhouse · 0.7 km

  ICI Hillhouse was a chlorine-production facility in Lancashire, England. A division of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), it was active between 1941 and 1992. Its triangular footprint spread from the banks of the Riv…

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  Brook Farm (Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire) · 0.7 km

  Brook Farm in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, England, was built in 1892. At that time, it was one of the only properties in the area on what was then its farmland. Its earliest known reference in literature is in the…

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  Four Lane Ends, Thornton-Cleveleys · 0.8 km

  Four Lane Ends is a road junction in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, England. It is formed by the meeting of the north–south-running Fleetwood Road and the east–west-bound Victoria Road, the B5412. The names of both r…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)