Welcome to the the bit of the north west UK coastline where you’ll find Blackpool. Between the Rivers Wyre and Ribble there’s a whole world of interesting things. Welcome to Visit Fylde Coast – this is your online resource that’s packed full of interesting things!
Are we the council? No! We are The Rabbit Patch – a small creative business in sunny Cleveleys. And we love where we live so much that we conceived, created and publish Visit Fylde Coast. It’s all online – with websites, social media, loads of YouTube videos and a weekly email newsletter. Welcome to Visit Fylde Coast – it’s all designed to showcase and share this place with you!
Our mission is:
To share the wonders of this coast through a positive and enthusiastic media product, with all the other like minded people out there
We’ll help you to make the most of your visit! Whether that’s virtually from the comfort of your home, or in person with a day, short break or longer stay. We’ve got something for everyone – take a look and make sure you’re seeing everything.
This overview page signposts you to what’s here. There are LOTS more pages to explore across all of Visit Fylde Coast!
A bit first about The Rabbit Patch…
Once upon a time, we lived in a hilly spot in Yorkshire… In winter the sky looked dark, and we couldn’t see the sea. Every which way we turned when we left the house was a hill, and winter seemed to drag on forever. We could see a little glimmer of a red setting sun between the 50’ trees behind our house and dreamed of its rays hitting the west-coast water.
Then one day we came for a day trip to this new place we’d found called Cleveleys. Or Cle-ve-leys as an old neighbour called it when he came on holiday to this little known and slightly exotic sounding place in the 1950’s.
And why The Rabbit Patch? Well it’s the name of our family design business, so called because I kept rabbits at the time! That was way back in 1993. Thirty odd years later we’re internet publishers – and community volunteers!
Let’s Buy a House…
‘Shall we have a look in the estate agents at the end of the high street’ I famously said on a day trip to our new favourite place.
‘This would be perfect for you. It doesn’t have a kitchen or bathroom, but you can buy a bathroom suite for £100’ the estate agent said. Another long story, several months and a guardian angel (yes really) later… We were ensconced in our very own building site, with no running water, kitchen, heating or carpets. This is how we lived for those first miserable and cold months!
Fast forward and we’ve got running water, radiators and curtains, and are well and truly in love with the place we now call home. This episode of Vlog with a View explains it all…
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A place to fall in love with…
We love the lightness and the brightness, despite the endless wind. The winters seem to pass in a flash, with bright open skies and sunsets and walks on the beach whatever the weather.
We’ve met some really great people, made truly good friends, been made to feel so very welcome, and feel so much at home. It’s made me feel better about my own old age when it comes. With no kids of my own, the old age that my grandma had made me fearful for my own. Here there’s so much to do, so many groups, and so many nice people who’ll just help you out.
Where it all began…
Having previously holidayed in Cornwall every year, we can’t see the difference between Falmouth harbour and Freeport marina (now of course called Affinity). And because we can, we build our first website ‘Visit Cleveleys‘. Launched way back in January 2010, its aim has always been to share what we love with everyone else and let everyone else see what we can see. The rest is now history. Visit Cleveleys grew into Visit Fylde Coast and the product it is today, and became our life.
Why do we do what we do? Because it’s a great place, with great people, and we just love it all!
We love the Facebook chat about all kinds of things from lost dogs, to high street shops and endless photos of sunsets. The things we’ve found out, the people we’ve met and being involved behind the scenes of the tourism machine that makes this coast tick. We love finding interesting things out so that we can tell you!
On one of our passing birthdays we shared a bit more about why we do what we do. Happy birthday to us!
Make this the year that you join in
Keep watching, reading and contributing – we have lots of plans and want you to come with us on our journey. We’ve got lots of ideas of our own, but yours are even more important to us. More than anything, these sites are created for you to share, enjoy and contribute to. Please join in – send us your photos, comments, news, stories.
But please send your message by email (so that we don’t miss it). We get lots of messages and it’s easy to miss one. Email jane@theRabbitPatch.co.uk
Explore with the Visit Fylde Coast Websites
Visit Fylde Coast is all online so you can enjoy it anytime you want to! And it’s the BEST way to find out all those interesting things about your favourite seaside places.
Whether you prefer one of the Fylde Coast towns or love all of them, we’ve got something for you.
- Find out about Fleetwood, Cleveleys, Poulton-le-Fylde, Blackpool, St Annes and Lytham from each individual website.
- Explore the seafronts, town centres, parks and local communities.
- Choose your next holiday with our Accommodation Guide – and make sure you have a good one! With something for all tastes and budgets, choosing one of our accredited properties ensures that the accommodation you choose is exactly what you expect.
- Visit Fylde Coast is packed full of everything that’s general to all of this coast. Plus topical and lifestyle material like gardening, cooking, pets, health, business pages, local news. Check out the events calendar and our popular weather page – and so much more!
- We also publish theBlackpoolilluminations.info. All about, yep – the Blackpool Illuminations!
A-Z of the Fylde Coast
Check out our list of Fylde Coast towns, villages and places. Why don’t you explore the list and tick them off as you visit!
Things to Do
Looking for something to do? Rainy days, kid friendly, shows?
Welcome to the Fylde Coast events calendar – the biggest and best What’s On Guide for the Fylde Coast.
- View events as a list or a calendar to suit your own preference. You can also export events to your own calendar.
- Submit your event just email the details to jane@theRabbitPatch.co.uk
Watch the Weather
Get weather forecasts, tide times and watch real-time webcams, fresh from the seafront!
Get the Most from Visit Fylde Coast
Quickly find what you’re looking for on the Visit Fylde Coast websites. We’d hate to think that you miss anything that you’d otherwise enjoy!
- Use the search box – it’s the quickest way of finding out what you want to know.
- Tags are a good way to browse around different subjects.
- If you get stuck, Google is a great way to find a particular piece of content!
Join In and Comment
- Got an opinion? Leave a comment.
- Know something else? Please leave it in the comments.
- Together we’ll build up a much better resource and enjoy sharing what we know about the fabulous Fylde Coast.
How to contribute
Find out how to send in your information to feature on Visit Fylde Coast
Welcome to the Visit Fylde Coast Weekly Email Newsletter
Your weekly email newsletter is packed full of interesting things, and it’s delivered straight to your inbox every week.
Welcome to the Fylde Coast on Video
The Visit Fylde Coast YouTube channel is a huge catalogue of films – with LOADS more to come! Here’s the very last one to be published –
SUBSCRIBE to our channel and hit the bell, selecting all notifications, then you won’t miss new videos as they’re uploaded!
Join us on Social Media
After updating content online we post links to it on our social media pages. Here’s where you can find us:
- We’ve got Facebook pages to match the websites –
- Visit Fleetwood,
- and Visit Cleveleys,
- Visit Poulton-le-Fylde,
- Live Blackpool,
- Visit St Annes,
- and Visit Lytham
- plus Visit Fylde Coast
- Join our Visit Fylde Coast Facebook Group and post your photos
- Do you like TikTok? Find us there @visitfyldecoast
- On Twitter we’re @visitFyldeCoast but we don’t use this platform these days.
As you can imagine, we like to see the Visit Fylde Coast product in the news and showcased in the media! We’ve featured in articles and adverts and even on buses!
Visit our very own Emporium…
You’ll have enjoyed thousands of our amazing photos. But did you know that we’ve got an artist in the family? Derek Littlewood has painted many of the iconic Fylde Coast buildings and views, capturing them in the Seaside Emporium range of art prints for your home.
In 2025, Derek and The Rabbit Patch gifted the rights to the catalogue of images to Care for Cleveleys. Now, volunteers make and frame the prints which you can buy in the Care for Cleveleys Shop. See your favourite Fylde Coast places, captured in amazing paintings, on your walls at home. Plus gifts, handmade crafts and much more.
Help us to help you…
We don’t receive any funding to publish Visit Fylde Coast. We do it because we can, and because we love where we live. Advertising revenue and your donations enable us to produce what’s still the only product of its type that celebrates the whole of the Fylde Coast.
Promote a company
Advertising revenue means that we can keep the lights on. It costs a considerable amount of money just to run the servers, backup and technical things that keep Visit Fylde Coast online.
On top of that we’ve spent years working hard to build up our reach and readership. It takes an enormous amount of time and effort to publish the Visit Fylde Coast product. We deliver a continuous stream of information through web pages, social media pages and the enewsletter.
You can see that the financial support of advertisers is crucial to its continuation and future development.
Advertising doesn’t just help us – it really helps your business. We’ve developed a unique package to help you to promote your company to our huge audience of readers. It’s probably the most cost effective advertising you’ll find.
Advertising options include the use of our social media/Facebook and Twitter, the email newsletter, Events Calendar and so much more.
Promoting Community Groups
We always have and always will promote anything for free for community groups which don’t have any paid employees. We can offer a write up about your group – why you formed, what you do, what kind of help you need and what your group offers. You can also list your events in the Events Calendar.
Link to Visit Fylde Coast
We’d love you to share the link on your own website or Facebook page. We always appreciate links written into the text of your website. Search engines don’t understand what ‘click here’ means! Please download/copy and use this logo:
If you’d like any of our other logos sending to you please get in touch. Just email jane@theRabbitPatch.co.uk
Errors
Visit Fylde Coast and group websites are continually being improved. There is always work going on behind the scenes to give you a better experience. We also have an ongoing review process for the many thousands of pages of content, where we review and update everything – filling in any gaps. It goes without saying that we ALWAYS strive to include correct, accurate and factual information. There’s no fake news here! But if you spot an error or something you think should be a priority for review, please let us know.
While you’re here…
Go to the homepage of the Visit Fylde Coast website for the latest updates.
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Join us on Facebook at our Visit Fylde Coast Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter @visitFyldeCoast
Plus hundreds of videos to watch on our YouTube channel – from all over the Fylde Coast!
Booking a stay? Pick a safe, clean and legal place to stay, at the very best price. Book using the Visit Fylde Coast Accommodation guide.
