Dull afternoon.
Location. Postcode FY5 5LF.
Road next to Creek can be flooded at high tide.
Thornton Lodge is nearby (see last picture) and has a large car park, and there is a public car park on Wyre Road at the location.
The origin of the word "Skippool" is probably from Old Norse skip meaning ship and Old English pull/pol for a slow moving stream. Skippool is an area of Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, England. It is situated between Little Thornton and Poulton-le-Fylde along the western banks of the River Wyre, about three miles south of its mouth between Fleetwood and Knott End. These banks are known as Skippool Creek, an historic docks area now home to mostly run-down vessels.
The creek has been in constant use from the end of the Middle Ages. Goods arrived at the docks from all over the world. Flax from Ireland and the Baltic; timber from North America; tallow from Russia. Limestone and oats were transported from Ulverston and coal from Preston. Its popularity fell out of favour when Fleetwood's port opened in the 1840s.
A 1610 map gives the name of the river as Skippon Flue. In 1787, another map gives the area the modern spelling of Skippool.
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