ABOUT WREA GREEN
THE VILLAGE
 Welcome
to the website of the winner of Lancashire's Best Kept Village 2001 - and
one of the prettiest and most active.
Wrea Green is a small village with a resident population of around 1,800,
approximately 630 homes, the largest village green in Lancashire including
a large duck pond (known to locals as 'The Dub') that is home to a fluctuating
number of well fed ducks.
The village is situated in the heart of the Rural Fylde, a region of
Lancashire, North West England. Wrea Green is in close proximity to the
coastal town of Lytham St. Annes, the historical market town of Kirkham
and the larger conurbations of Blackpool and Preston.
AWARDS
Wrea Green has an excellent record in the Championship Class of the
Lancashire Best Kept Village Award and has been honoured in the following
years:
Winner:- 1959, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1980, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1996,
2001, 2005
Runner-Up:- 1971, 1974 & 1991
When the Village won the Championship class of the Best Kept Village
in 2001 the Lancashire Life magazine wrote an article on the village and
commissioned a local artist to paint a number of scenes. The full article
can be read
here and the paintings also viewed under Local
Pictures
In 2000 the Village also won the North West in Bloom Competition
as can been seen on the newly erected sign on the small green. (See
Picture Gallery) |