Coordinates: 53°54′00″N 2°48′32″W / 53.900°N 2.809°W / 53.900; -2.809

Borough of Wyre
Shown within non-metropolitan Lancashire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	North West England
Admin. County:	Lancashire
Area:   Total:	Ranked 145th 282.6 km²
Admin. HQ:	Poulton-le-Fylde
ONS code:	30UQ
Demographics
Population:   Total (2008 est.):   Density:	Ranked 197th 110,900 392 / km²
Ethnicity:	96.6% White 1.9% S.Asian[1]
Politics
Wyre Borough Council http://www.wyrebc.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Joan Humble, Michael Jack, Ben Wallace

Wyre is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Poulton-le-Fylde.

The district is named after the River Wyre, which runs through the district. It was formed on April 1, 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of the municipal borough of Fleetwood, along with Poulton-le-Fylde, Preesall and Thornton-Cleveleys urban districts and Garstang Rural District.

[edit] Town and Parish Councils

[edit] Urban areas

• Fleetwood
• Poulton-le-Fylde
• Thornton Cleveleys

[edit] Parish Councils

• Barnacre with Bonds
• Bleasdale
• Barton
• Cabus
• Catterall
• Claughton on Brock
• Forton
• Garstang
• Great Eccleston
• Hambleton
• Inskip-with-Sowerby
• Kirkland, Lancashire
• Myerscough and Bilsborrow
• Nateby
• Nether Wyresdale
• Out Rawcliffe
• Pilling
• Preesall (Town Council)
• Stalmine-with-Staynall
• Upper Rawcliffe with Tarnacre
• Winmarleigh

[edit] Parliament

Wyre is currently divided into three Parliamentary Constituencies - Lancaster and Wyre, Blackpool North and Fleetwood and Fylde. Following forthcoming boundary changes, Wyre will be split into just two - Wyre and Preston North and Lancaster and Fleetwood.

[edit] References

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