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HISTORY OF THE FYLDE.
CHAPTER I.
THE ANCIENT BRITONS, ROMANS, ANGLO-SAXONS, AND DANES.
"See! in what crowds the uncouth forms advance:
Each would outstrip the other, each prevent
Our careful search, and offer to your gaze,
Unask'd, his motley features. Wait awhile,
My curious friends! and let us first arrange
In proper order your promiscuous throng."
The large district of western Lancashire, denominated
from time immemorial the Fylde, embraces one third
at least of the Hundred of Amounderness, and a line
drawn from Ashton, on the Ribble, to Churchtown,
on the Wyre, forms the nearest approach to an eastern boundary
attainable, for although the section cut off by its means includes
more land and villages than properly appertain to the Fylde, a
more westerly division would exclude others which form part of it.
The whole of the parishes of Bispham, Lytham, Poulton, and
St. Michael's; and the parish of Kirkham, exclusive of Goosnargh-with-Newsham
and Whittingham, are comprised in the Fylde
country.
The word Amounderness was formerly considered to signify the "Promontory of Agmund," or "Edmund," and this origin is alluded to in a treatise written some years since by Mr. Thomas
