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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Forton like this:
FORTON, a township in Garstang parish, Lancashire; on the Preston canal and the Preston and Lancaster railway, 4 miles N of Garstang. Acres, 1, 278. Real property, £2, 663; of which £55 are in quarries. Pop., 574. Houses, 131. There is an Independent chapel.
Forton is now part of WYRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how WYRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Forton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Forton, in Wyre and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10235
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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