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Blackpool is a seaside town in England, on the coast of the Irish Sea. It is traditionally part of Lancashire. It is believed to get its name from a long gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog. The water which ran into the sea at Blackpool was black from the peat and formed a "black pool" in the relatively clean waters of the Irish Sea. The town boundaries are drawn very tightly, and exclude the nearby settlements of Fleetwood, Cleveleys, Thornton, Poulton-le-Fylde and and Lytham St Anne's. Blackpool Borough, unlike its neighbours, is almost completely urbanised.
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