Bispham, Blackpool is a village roughly one-and-a-half miles north of Blackpool town centre. The village is part of the borough of Blackpool. Blackpool is a seaside town in north-western England. ...

The area is mostly residential, and features a Catholic Parish Church and three Church of England Parish Churches. The village includes several primary and secondary schools to cater for the largely transient population, including Saint Bernadette's, Westcliff and Bispham Endowed primary schools, as well as Montgomery High School. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[1] in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ...

The village has, however, few attractions, with the exception of the tram station and the highest cliffs on the Fylde coast.

The main road at the hub of the village, Red Bank Road, houses a number of high street stores such as Sainsbury's the supermarket store. The road is also at the Northern end of the world-famous Blackpool Illuminations, and the area at Bispham Cliffs also contains the famous tableaux displays, for which many holidaymakers get out of their cars to view up close. Pubs in Bispham include the Olde England, the Red Lion and the Squirrel. Illuminations are secular Autumn festivals of electric light held in several English cities, in particular: Blackpool Matlock Bath Mousehole Walsall. ...

History

Bispham, known until 1910 as Bispham-with-Norbreck, was originally a village in its own right, in fact pre-dating the town of Blackpool by several hundred years. It is featured in the Domesday Book as 'Biscopham'. 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ...

Although the village centre (more correctly known as Churchtown) used to be thatched with a number of pre-19th Century houses, it was redesigned in the 1960's to how it appears today; only 2 of the old houses remain. Much of the housing today is of the design style consistent with that of the 1930s to the 1950s. Churchtown can refer to: Churchtown, Sefton Churchtown, Dublin This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...