Elswick is a rural village and civil parish on the Fylde coast of Lancashire, England.

[1] At the Norman conquest of England in 1066, Elswick was a small agricultural community in the hundred of Amounderness.

[2] At the time of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the township of Elswick—as part of the ancient hundred of Amounderness—was in the possession of Earl Tostig, the brother of King Harold II.

[2] In the early 16th century, Henry VII's administrator Edmund Dudley held the township and it was later in the possession of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby.

[5] It was intended to be a chapel of ease to St Michael's but was neither endowed nor consecrated, possibly because of the turmoil of the English Civil War.

The station was used to allow each sector to locate RAF or allied aircraft and to help pilots find airfield runways in low cloud weather conditions.

[15] The village is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of the constituency of Fylde.

At 53°50′20″N 2°52′50″W / 53.83889°N 2.88056°W / 53.83889; -2.88056 (53.839°, −2.880°), and approximately 240 miles (390 km) north-west of London, Elswick lies on a coastal plain called the Fylde.

Nearby villages include Great Eccleston, St Michael's on Wyre and Thistleton.

Elswick has a generally temperate maritime climate like much of the British Isles, with cool summers and mild winters.

[18] The proportion of residents who classified themselves as White was 99.5%, a figure higher than those for Fylde (98.6%), the North West (94.4%) and England (90.9%).

[11] In the 21st century, Elswick is a dormitory village and many residents commute to Preston, Blackpool and Poulton-le-Fylde.

[25][26] The average distance travelled to work for the ward of Elswick and Little Eccleston is approximately 12.4 miles (20.0 km).

[31] There is no route through Elswick; the nearest railway stations to the village are Poulton-le-Fylde and Kirkham and Wesham, both on the line between Blackpool and Preston.