FRECKLETON is an extensive village and township in the parish of Kirkham, pleasantly seated on me north bank of the Ribble, 2 ½ miles south from Kirkham station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 4 ½ east-by-north from Lytham and 8 west from Preston, and was formed into a separate parish, January 30, 1874, from Warton; it is in the Blackpool division of the county, Amounderness hundred, Fylde union, Kirkham petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of the Fylde, archdeaconry of Lancaster and diocese of Manchester. The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1839, is an edifice of brick in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel and nave, and a western tower with small spire containing one bell: the stained east window is a memorial to the late Mrs. Myres, and there is another to Mr. Thomas Green: there are 230 sittings, of which 150 are free. The register dates from the year 1861, entries previous to this date having been made at Kirkham. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £155, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since 1802 by the Rev. Edward John Hack, of St Aidan’s. The Wesleyan chapel, built in 1885, will hold 300; there is also a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1861, and a meeting house for the Society of Friends. Rope and twine are made here, and there is a cotton mill, which is the main support of the people. There are a few small charities, producing £2 yearly. Henry Langton Birley esq. of Carr Hill, near Kirkham, is lord of the manor. The land, is principally in the hands of small owners. The soil is sandy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 2,201 acres of land, 6 of water, 67 of tidal water and 135 of foreshore; rateable value, £6,344; the population in 1901 was 1,239.

Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1810 & enlarged in 1884 & in 1800, & again in 1900, for 370 children; average attendance, 180.