GROWTH OF BLACKPOOL AS A HFALTH AND HOLIDAY RESORT 75 



In 1879 more of Marton was added. In 1917 the remainder of Bispham and 

 part of Carleton and, in 1934, the remainder of Marton and parts of Carleton 

 and Hardhorn were also added. 



The remarkable growth of Blackpool in the last hundred years is illustrated 

 by the following figures : — 



Growth of Blackpool since 1800. 

 Population. Rates. 



Scarcely anything is recorded of the History of Blackpool before the 

 seventeenth century. While Marton (Mereton), Layton-with-Warbreck 

 (Laton) and Bispham (Biscopham) were mentioned in the Domesday Survey, 

 the first reference to Blackpool in any record does not occur until 1602, when 

 ' Ellen, daughter of Thomas Cowban de Blackpoole ' was christened at 

 Bispham Parish Church. Saxton's map of 1577, the first engraved map of 

 Lancashire, marks Rosso Hall, Thornton Hall, Byspam in ye Fyle, Stanyng, 

 Laton, Poton, Marton and Marton Mere, but does not include Blackpool. 

 A map of Lancashire, ' performed by John Speed ' in 1610, has the same 

 omission. A chart of Morecambe Bay, however, surveyed in 1736-7 by 

 Samuel Fearon and Inigo Eyes, marks the following : — Warbreck, Warbreck 

 Gin, Little Bispham, The Red Bank, Fox Hall, The Black Pool, and Blackpool 

 Town. Until the seventeenth century Blackpool was only a strip of land 

 along the sea shore with a few small farm houses and isolated cottages some 

 distance from the sea. Blackpool has never been a fishing village. On the 

 contrary its history has been entirely that of a seaside health and pleasure resort. 



Towards the end of the seventeenth century Edward Tyldesley, of 

 Myerscough Lodge, married a daughter of Sir Thomas Fleetwood, Lord of the 

 Manors of Bispham-with-Norbreck and Layton-with-Warbreck, and built a 

 seaside resort called Vauxhall on land owned by his father-in-law. Later it 



