Holiday Flats in Blackpool

holiday flats in blackpool

Why not have a vacation in the great tourist centre of Blackpool. It can be super place for a vacation. You may want to have a holiday flat in the town. You may want to have a apartment in hotel or house or just a B&B. You may want to buy, rent, sell, hire or share a vacation flat.

Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. Lying along the coast of the Irish Sea, it has a population of 142,900, making it the 4th largest settlement in North West England.

Blackpool is heavily dependent on tourism.

Blackpool remains a summer entertainment venue, specialising in variety shows featuring entertainers such as Ken Dodd and Roy 'Chubby' Brown

Events and festivals

Blackpool Dance Festival is a world famous annual ballroom dance competition of international significance.
Blackpool Illuminations consisting of a series of lighted displays and collages arranged along the entire length of the sea front, seven miles in total, attract many visitors from late August to early November; a time when most British seaside resorts' holiday seasons have already ended. This results in some spectacular traffic snarl-ups as most people now view the lights from cars and coaches which crawl nose to tail along the whole length of the sea front, particularly so at weekends and during school holidays.

Blackpool's modern night-life, like that of many other UK towns, has become increasingly dominated by binge drinking. Blackpool has become a favoured destination for often rowdy hen and stag parties (brides or bridegrooms to be and their friends) who roam the town's many bars and clubs getting increasingly drunk. Their behaviour and the character of the town at night is often claimed to have contributed to the decline of Blackpool as a family destination. Complaints have been raised from hotel and guest house owners keen to attract a more upmarket clientele. Such behaviour has also placed added strain on the town's emergency unit, based at the Victoria Hospital near Stanley Park. This is now one of busiest accident and emergency units in the country. Outside the main holiday season, Blackpool's Winter Gardens routinely hosts major political and trade union conferences, ranging from that of the Conservative Party and the TGWU with thousands of delegates and visitors, to substantially smaller gatherings such as the CWU or NUS conferences.

Major attractions
Blackpool Tower, a Blackpool landmark.
Central Pier, Blackpool

Areas, districts and estates

Anchorsholme, Bispham, Bloomfield, Brunswick, Churchtown, Claremont, Common Edge, Devonshire, Grange Park, Great Marton, Great Marton Moss, Great Marton Moss Side, Hawes Side, Highfurlong, Hoohill, Layton, Little Bispham, Little Carleton, Little Marton Moss Side, Little Norbreck, Marton, Marton Fold, Mereside, Moor Park, Norbreck, North Shore, Palatine, Queenstown, Revoe, South Shore,Squires Gate,Stanley Park, Walker's Hill, Warbreck, Waterloo, Whiteholme

The M55 motorway links the town to the national motorway network.

Blackpool International Airport operates regular charter and scheduled flights throughout the UK and Europe. The airport is actually just over the borough boundary into Fylde Borough, although a proposal to reorganise Blackpool's borders would see the airport incorporated into Blackpool Borough.

Other attractions

Beach - Stretching along the whole seafront. The main natural attraction for tourists.
Funny Girls - World Famous Drag Cabaret Burlesque Showbar, located on the North Shore.
Blackpool Zoo - provides a home to over 1500 animals from all over the world.
Grand Theatre - Victorian theatre designed by Frank Matcham. Also now known as the National Theatre of Variety.
Great Promenade Show - Series of modern artwork installations along Blackpool's South Promenade. Includes the Blackpool High Tide Organ an unusual musical monument which uses the movements of the sea to make music.
Louis Tussaud's Waxworks - Waxwork Museum, featuring models of celebrities, musicians, sports personalities and the famous Chamber of Horrors.
Doctor Who Exhibition The Biggest Doctor Who Exhibition in the UK - contains props and costumes from the long-running BBC TV series, including some from recently aired programmes.
Sandcastle Water Park (now known as Waterworld) - An indoor swimming pool with slides and waves. Next to the South Pier.
Stanley Park - Grade II Historic Park & Gardens with Golf Course, Cricket Club, Sports Arena, Lake, Art Deco Restaurant, Model Village, Gardens, etc.
Odeon Cinema - Situated on a multi-complex site, on Rigby Road, with 10 screens.
The Syndicate Superclub,

Blackpool Tower, opened in 1894; it has been a dominant landmark of the Blackpool skyline since that time. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower of Paris, France, it is 158 metres tall. Beneath the tower is a complex of leisure facilities, entertainment venues and restaurants, including the world famous Tower Ballroom and Tower Circus.

North Pier - The northernmost of Blackpool's three piers. It includes a small shopping arcade, a small tramway and the North Pier Theatre toward the end of the pier. The pier end also used to have a helicopter pad, but this was damaged at Christmas 1997 by a windstorm and it collapsed into the Irish Sea.

Central Pier - The middle pier, includes a large ferris wheel and shops.

South Pier - The southernmost pier. Almost directly opposite the Pleasure Beach, it houses a theme park.

Pleasure Beach Blackpool - a famous theme park. Rides include the Pepsi Max Big One, which was the world's fastest and tallest complete circuit rollercoaster between 1994 and 1996.

The Winter Gardens is a large entertainment and conference venue in the town centre. Includes the Opera House (one of the largest theatres in Europe), Pavilion Theatre, Empress Ballroom, Spanish Hall, Arena and Olympia.

Blackpool rose to prominence as a major centre of tourism during the 19th century, particularly for the inhabitants of northern mill towns.

The most significant event in the early growth of the town occurred in 1846, with the completion of a branch line to Blackpool from the main Preston and Wyre Joint Railway line from Preston to Fleetwood. Fleetwood declined as a resort, as its founder and principal financial backer, Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood went bankrupt. In contrast, Blackpool boomed. A sudden influx of visitors provided the motivation for entrepreneurs to build accommodations and create new attractions, leading to more visitors and a rapid cycle of growth throughout the 1850s and 1860s. In 1851 a Board of Health was formed. Gas lighting was introduced in 1852, and piped water in 1864. By 1851, the town's population was over 2500.

The inter-war period saw Blackpool attain preeminence as a holiday destination. By 1930, Blackpool claimed around seven million visitors per year, three times as many as its nearest British rivals, still drawn largely from the mill towns of East Lancashire and West Yorkshire. Stanley Park was laid out in 1920 and opened in 1926. The area round the park has become renowned for some of the most desirable residences in the area.

Blackpool was spared serious damage during World War II, and in the decade afterwards, it continued to attract more visitors, reaching a zenith of 17 million per year. However, several factors combined to make this growth untenable. The decline of the textile industry led to a deemphasis of the traditional week-long break. The rise of package holidays sent many of Blackpool's traditional visitors abroad, where the weather was more reliably warm and dry, and improved road communications, epitomized by the construction of the M55 motorway in 1975, made Blackpool more feasible as a day trip rather than an overnight stay. The economy, however, remains relatively undiversified, and firmly rooted in the tourism sector.

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