1850 Guide page 3
 LYTHAM
Is a rapidly improving maritime town and fashionable watering
place, delightfully situated on the northern shore of the
estuary of the Ribble, and in a highly cultivated district of
the Fylde, six miles S.W. of Kirkham, eight miles south of
Blackpool, by the road, and 10 miles S.W. by the Sands, eight
miles N. of Southport by sea, and 12 miles W: of Preston by
road, and 14 by rails. This pleasant and justly popular
sea-bathing place is one of the most attractive in the county of
Lancaster; its climate is mild and equable, its sands are smooth
and elastic, whilst its wide-spread beach has not perhaps a
rival for panoramic beauties amongst the watering places of
England. |
