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Find out how to get to Formby, where to park, the things to see and do and more. Plan your visit. Formby is steeped in history if you know where to look. Discover the history of Formby’s asparagus fields, prehistoric footprints and shipwrecks.
Formby is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. Historically in Lancashire, three manors are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 under "Fornebei", Halsall, Walton and Poynton. [ 2 ] Cockle raking and shrimp fishing lasted into the 19th century. [ 2 ]
Apr 22, 2017 · By April 1967, the local newspapers carried reports that half of the Formby shore area had been officially taken over by the NT – the first Enterprise Neptune purchase in the North-West - and the Formby Times invited Cubby Acland, the Trust’s North-West area agent.
Rich in history, visitors can catch glimpses of the past from spotting pre-historic footprints and shipwrecks to strolling through what was once acres of asparagus fields. Formby’s sweeping pinewoods are also home to the iconic red squirrel.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Formby like this: FORMBY, a village, a township, and two chapelries in Walton-on-the-Hill parish, and a sub-district in Ormskirk district, Lancashire.
The Development of Formby. It is known that Formby was populated, at least seasonally, during the pre-historic period as recent archaeological work has shown that human footprints in the silt of the inter tidal zone were formed 4000 – 3500 years ago.
An accessible history of Formby from its beginnings to the present day highlighting the town’s significant events and people. Saxon settlers and Viking invaders defined the early settlement of Formby on the coast of northwest England.
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