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Anchorsholme, Blackpool — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Close to Cleveleys, Anchorsholme is both a suburban area of Blackpool and the name of a ward, with All Saints Church among its addresses.
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Where to stay in Anchorsholme
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
This is the Cleveleys end. Anchorsholme lies out towards Cleveleys, close enough to that town for a stay here to read as suburban Lancashire rather than a seafront break in the middle of Blackpool. All Saints Church, Anchorsholme and Children's Corner are the local names.
Anyone who wants a wide choice of rooms books in Blackpool itself and treats this ward as the outer address near Cleveleys.
Few places to stay in Anchorsholme — most visitors book in Blackpool nearby.
About Anchorsholme
What are the main landmarks in Anchorsholme?
Four names, all of them small. All Saints Church, Anchorsholme carries the ward's own name, while Christ Church, Thornton and the Church of St Andrew are entered against the same suburban area, and Children's Corner completes the list. Three of the four are churches.
Nothing on it is a museum or a monument, which leaves Anchorsholme a residential quarter with a parish record.
What is the history of Anchorsholme?
Anchorsholme reaches the record twice over, as a suburban area of Blackpool and as the name of a ward in the borough, without a charter year attached to either. Cleveleys lies close by. All Saints Church, Anchorsholme and the Church of St Andrew are the dedications the lists preserve.
What is written of the wider past belongs to Blackpool and to Lancashire, with this ward appearing as one administrative division among the borough's several.
Where is Anchorsholme?
Anchorsholme is Blackpool's ward towards Cleveleys. Its streets fall inside the Borough of Blackpool in Lancashire, with Christ Church, Thornton on the local list.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Anchorsholme?
Blackpool: a Blackpool room with Anchorsholme and Cleveleys kept as the day out.
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Updated September 2026