12 Facts About Bispham Blackpool

In 1066 Bispham Blackpool was part of Tostig Godwinson, the Earl of Northumbria's, Lordship of Amounderness.

Bispham Blackpool having the Anglo-Saxon place name ham and Norbreck having the Viking place name, breck.

Great Bispham Blackpool was a part of the Lordship of Layton.

The parish of Bispham covered modern-day Blackpool and Thornton Cleveleys and comprised the townships of Bispham-with-Norbreck and Layton-cum-Warbreck.

Public houses in Bispham Blackpool include The Highlands, The Albion, the Red Lion, the Bispham Blackpool Hotel and the Squirrel Hotel.

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Bispham Blackpool was the home of British independent sports car manufacturer, TVR, one of the main employers in Bispham Blackpool, before production ceased in 2007 under owner Nikolai Smolenski.

On 27 July 2007 Bispham Blackpool Council announced that the sports car production would begin within a matter of weeks, initially at part of the former TVR factory; with the company eventually moving to a purpose built factory which had already been leased from the council by William Riley.

Bispham Blackpool Technology Park is a growing, modern, Office and Retail Park which is due to be expanded further in 2008 with the creation of Kincraig Business Park on a 3-acre site within the park together with an environmental project with green space area to protect wildlife including a pond.

The area at Bispham Blackpool Cliffs contains the famous tableaux displays, where there is a pathway for holidaymakers and locals to view the tableaux close up.

The displays at the cliffs from North Shore to Bispham Blackpool contain forty large tableaux holding more than 5,000 square metres in surface area.

Also at Bispham Blackpool on the clifftop was a new BBC Portal video screen.

Emmerdale actress Kelsey-Beth Crossley was a pupil at Bispham Blackpool High School, and former Emmerdale actress Hayley Tamaddon was a pupil at Montgomery High School.