Burn Naze
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| Burn Naze | |
|---|---|
 Fleetwood Road North passing through Burn Naze | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | THORNTON-CLEVELEYS |
| Postcode district | FY5 |
| Dialling code | 01253 |
| Police | Lancashire |
| Fire | Lancashire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
Burn Naze is a residential area of Thornton-Cleveleys, in the Borough of Wyre, Lancashire, England. It is located about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Blackpool and 2 miles (3 km) southeast of Fleetwood. Cleveleys is about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) to the west, while the River Wyre is about 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to the east.
Over the course of its history, the Burn Naze name has been used in a railway station and a public house.
The area became heavily populated after ICI Hillhouse, a chlorine-production facility, was built on part of its land in 1941, expanding on a United Alkali Company venture begun in the 1890s. ICI General Chemical Divisions purchased the assets of Hillhouse and Burn Hall Works from the Ministry of Supply. A power plant was built on today's Bourne Way in 1958, providing ICI with electricity and steam power.[2] A railway line—part of the Fleetwood branch line—was built to connect Burn Naze to Poulton-le-Fylde and beyond. The line still exists today, although the sidings at Burn Naze were removed after all freight traffic ceased in 1999.
ICI Hillhouse closed in 1992, and the area subsequently suffered a downturn in fortunes.[2][3]
The Burn Naze name is possibly derived from when the area was known as "Burn" during the time of William the Conqueror. Torentum, today's Thornton, was "estimated to contain six carucates of land fit for the plough, but this computation was exclusive of Rossall and Burn, which were valued at two carucates respectively".[4] "Naze", meanwhile, is "a flat marshy headland".[5] A Burn Naze is mentioned in 1837 by William Thornber, who was on his way to the nearby River Wyre.[6] A 15th-century building known as Burn Hall also existed in the area, with an earlier structure documented back to at least 1345.[6][7]
In A History of Lancashire, there is a reference that Burn Naze might have previously been spelled Bourne Naze.[8] A Bourne Road today runs between Amounderness Way and West Road, in the bounds of Burn Naze. Houses built for the workers of ICI still stand on Butts Road and Rock Street.[9]