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.

The line still exists today, although the sidings at Burn Naze were removed after all freight traffic ceased in 1999.

[11] Another pub, the Knife and Dagger (also known as the Burn Naze Club), had closed either by the time of ICI's opening in the mid-1940s or just after it.

Thornton Cleveleys Football Club was formerly based at Bourne Park in Burn Naze,[12] but after twenty years they moved to Gamble Road, adjacent to Fleetwood Town F.C.