FLEETWOOD, a seaport and watering-place in the Fylde parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, at the mouth of the Wyre, 2 29/ m. N.W. by N. from London, at the terminus of a branch from Preston of the L.M.S. railway. Pop. of urban district (1931) 22,983. It dates its rise from 1836, and takes its name from Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, by whom it was laid out. The seaward views, especially northward over Morecambe Bay, are fine. There are a town hall and public library. The dock is provided with railways and traffic equipment, including a grain elevator. The shipping is chiefly in the coasting and Irish trade. Passenger steamers serve Belfast and the Isle of Man, and other ports during the season. The fisheries are important, and there are salt-works in the neighbourhood. There is a promenade, with other appointments of a watering-place. The council owns the electricity undertaking; the Blackpool tramways serve Fleetwood. Rossall school, to the south-west, is one of the leading public schools in the north of England. Rossall Hall was the seat of Sir Peter Fleetwood, but was converted to the uses of the school on its foundation in 1844.