St Chad's Church, Poulton-le-Fylde

The first mention of a church in Poulton is in a document of 1094 but there could well have been a church here in Anglo Saxon times; the church is dedicated to St Chad, an Anglo Saxon bishop who died in 627 AD.
The earliest documentary reference to a church at Poulton-le-Fylde occurs in 1094, when Roger de Poitou gave it (together with others at Kirkham, Melling in Lonsdale, and elsewhere) to the new priory to St Mary at Lancaster. The medieval and later dedication of the church to St Chad, the 7th century founder and first bishop of the diocese of Lichfield, is a good indication that the church was in fact of pre-Conquest date, since it is extremely unlikely that if the 1094 church was a new Norman foundation it would have been dedicated to one of the most important figures of the Saxon church.

St Chad's church is in the Diocese of Blackburn and is one of the largest parishes in the Diocese with more than 20,000 people living in the parish of Poulton. In the past the Poulton parish stretched from the River Wyre in the north to Squires Gate Lane in the south where it met the parish of St Cuthbert's, Lytham. More information can be found here

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