Lytham St. Annes Hotels and Guest Houses

This city started as two, Lytham and St-Annes-on-Sea (which is known simply as St. Annes) but they eventually grew together and are not called Lytham St. Annes. The new town is not a popular seaside resort that is preferred as a gentler alternatives to its neighboring Blackpool. While the cities are technically one they still keep their individuality.

They are located south of Blackpool on the coast of Fylde where the coastline goes east to become the estuary of River Ribble and leads inland to preston. St. Annes, like Blackpool, is on the north side for the turn, overlooking the Irish Sea. Lytham on the other hand is on the east side and is overlooking the estuary of River Ribble.

Lytham St. Annes is the home to a world famous golf courses with four of them to choose from. The most popular is the Royal Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club which is one of the courses that hosts the Open Championship a.k.a the British Open and has since 1926. About every ten years The Open is a major event that brings in a flow of visitors including media from around the world into what otherwise is a peaceful town.

The area has some other important annual events with the Lytham Club Day and St. Annes Carnival. They both have a variety of floats with decorations, a ceremony where a carnival queen is crowned and a fair. They are both held on the weekend and bring in many visitors to the area. Lythym Club Day brings in more people because it is larger and held in the summer.

St. Annes is a very popular retirement options for people from all around the world. This has caused the average residence age to be higher than the averages of other countries in the nation. In the large houses located on Clifton Drive, one of the biggest roads that link St. Annes and Lytham, you will find a multitude of nursing and retirement communities. Several of the cities there Edwardian and Victorian homes have been made into apartments.

Lytham St. Annes is a wealthier area and the residents make some of the highest incomes in Lancashire. This is because many of the scientist and engineers that work at the Bae Systems site in nearby Warton choose to live there. The company has jobs that pay very well and it is the basis for the local economy. Also other professionals such as doctors and lawyers have also chose to settle in the area. The house prices in the town have grown faster and larger than the average home in the nation in recent years. Lytham St. Annes also recently had an apartment sell for £1 million.

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