Slyne-with-Hest
| Slyne-with-Hest | ||
|---|---|---|
Shire county | ||
| Region | ||
| Country | England | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
| Post town | LANCASTER | |
| Postcode district | LA2 | |
| Dialling code | 01524 | |
| Police | Lancashire | |
| Fire | Lancashire | |
| Ambulance | North West | |
| UK Parliament | ||
Slyne-with-Hest is a
A6
road, and Hest Bank on the coast.
History
Hest Bank (54°05′N 2°48′W / 54.083°N 2.800°W ) is a village in north-western
Anglo-Saxon
times.
Notable buildings and roads
Hest Bank's best-known building, 'The Hest Bank Hotel' (previously named the Sands Inn), is itself hundreds of years old, and once served as a coaching station for traffic crossing the sands of what is now called
vehicles, there being water at around knee-height to cross at the outflow from the River Kent
.
Governance
An electoral ward of the same name exists. This ward extends beyond the confines of the parish and has a population taken at the 2011 Census of 4,119.[3]
Before
MEPs for the North West England
constituency.
Railway line
In 1965 this originally coastal village was the scene of a rail accident on 20 May, when a sleeper train from
Glasgow Central left the rails at 70 mph and collided with the Hest Bank station buildings.[4]
No one was seriously injured, although from that time Hest Bank has ceased to serve as a passenger station, its railside platform consequently now lying buried in undergrowth.
Community
The village has a primary school: St Lukes Slyne-with-Hest; and tennis, football and bowling clubs.
Notable people
- Tyson Fury, boxer
- Dame Thora Hird, actress
- Helen Pidd, journalist
See also
References
- ^ UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Slyne-with-Hest Parish (30UH028)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- ^ "THE HEST BANK DERAILMENT". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Slyne-with-Hest.
- Official website
- Cross Bay Run to Hest Bank by Keith Wilkinson (reporter)
- ITV Local report on Cross Bay Run to Hest Bank
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