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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside town in north-western England. It is traditionally part of Lancashire. On April 1, 1998 the town was made into an independent unitary authority. more...

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It is believed to get its name from a long gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog. The water which ran into the sea at Blackpool was black from the peat and formed a \"black pool\" in waters of the Irish Sea. (In Irish, Black Pool is Dubh Linn, which in turn became Dublin.)

It is generally believed locally that people originating from Blackpool are called \"Sand Grown\" or \"Sandgrown'uns,\" but these terms may be applied to natives of any littoral settlement.

The town boundaries are drawn very tightly, and exclude the nearby settlements of Fleetwood, Cleveleys, Thornton, Poulton-le-Fylde and Lytham St Anne's. Blackpool Borough, unlike its neighbours, is almost completely urbanised.

Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Blackpool at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

↑ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding; ↑ includes hunting and forestry; ↑ includes energy and construction; ↑ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured;

Tourism

Blackpool is heavily dependent on tourism. Major attractions include:

The three piers: the North (built in 1863), Central (1868) and South (1893).; Blackpool Tower, built in May 1894, is a 518-foot-tall copy of the Eiffel Tower.; The Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park, near to the South Pier.; Sandcastle Waterworld is the premier indoor uk waterpark opposite the Pleasure Beach.;

In what is often regarded as its heyday (1900-1950), Blackpool thrived as the factory workers of northern England took their annual holidays there en masse. Any photograph from that era shows crowds of tourists on the beach and promenade. Blackpool was also a preferred destination of visitors from Glasgow and remains so to this day. Reputedly, the town still has more hotel beds than the whole of Portugal. The town went into decline when cheap air travel arrived in the 1960s and the same workers decamped to the Mediterranean coast resorts due to competitive prices and the more reliable weather. Today, many visitors stay for the weekend rather than for a week at a time. Blackpool is continually striving to improve its position within today's tourist industry. One controversial proposal, which has the involvement of the local council, is to transform Blackpool into a casino resort along the lines of Las Vegas and Atlantic City, making it the centre point of gambling in the UK. This plan is dependent on the selection of Blackpool as the location of Britain's first \"super-casino\", following the slight liberalisation of Britain's gambling laws.