Formby is a coastal town, with an area of roughly 7 sq miles (17 km 2), located in the borough of Sefton. The town is built upon the west of a large flat area of land called the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. Formby's highest point is within the sand dunes that separate the Irish Sea from Formby. However, these sand dunes are ever-changing in ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Guide to Formby, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. Formby (St Luke) was created a chapel of ease in 1748 from Walton on the Hill St Mary Parish.

Formby is a coastal nature haven for both wildlife and people. You’ll discover some of Europe’s most important and protected sand dune habitats, where many rare species thrive including sand lizards and natterjack toads. You can also catch glimpses …

A beautiful section of the Sefton coastline which attracts 1.2m people per year, Formby Beach is one of the most visited places in the summer and is a perfect place for families to enjoy nature, a picnic or a walk around the sand dunes. Formby Beach is also dog-friendly meaning your four-legged friend is welcome too.

Apr 3, 2015 · Find out more about National Trust Formby, Merseyside, a coastal nature haven for wildlife and people.

Formby is a seaside town and parish in Lancashire. It has a population of approximately 25,000. Three manors are recorded in the Domesday book under "Fornebei" as Halsall, Walton and Poynton.

While Formby boasts far-reaching views and an abundance of rare wildlife, it is also steeped in history if you know where to look. Learn how the asparagus fields point to a history of prize-winning cultivation, the shoreline holds traces of the distant past with prehistoric footprints, and the shipwrecks off the coast tell stories about the ...

Formby is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 57,098 at the 2023 Census.Historically in Lancashire, three manors are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 under "Fornebei", Halsall, Walton and Poynton.

FORMBY, a village, a township, and two chapelries in Walton-on-the-Hill parish, and a sub-district in Ormskirk district, Lancashire. The village stands on the coast, adjacent to the Liverpool and Southport railway, near the river Alt, 7½ miles W of Ormskirk; was formerly a market-town; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a ...

Formby, a township in Lancashire, in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill, situated on the coast between Liverpool and Southport. The township includes the villages of Formby, Freshfield, and Ainsdale. There are four railway stations, viz.:-Formby, Freshfield, and Ainsdale on the L. & Y. R., and Woodville station on the Cheshire Lines railway.