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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 ]
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 area’s maritime history.
Jan 25, 2010 · A new collection of photographs shows how the once rural village of Formby transformed into a bustling community. Formby and Freshfield Through Time tells the story of the coastal village through a...
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.
Formby is a place-name of Norse origin which relates to settlement of the area probably by Vikings from Ireland in the 10th century AD, and it is likely that Formby has been occupied fairly continuously from a very early period.
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.
Formby Civic Society History Group. Since its establishment in 1953, the Society has been working on the history of Formby. During that time it has built up a considerable archive consisting of maps, photographs and documents together with a useful local history library.
