Freckleton is a village[1] and civil parish on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, England, to the south of Kirkham and east of the seaside resort of Lytham St. Annes.

The name of the village appears in the Domesday Book as "Frecheltun" and is said to derive from 'Farmstead of a man called Frecla', with Old English tun and Nordic personal name.

[5] Freckleton supplied water to the Roman fort at Kirkham, and in the 19th century was a port for the ship building industry.

Balderstone Mill, erected in 1880, was the first organised factory system in the village, its weaving shed had 320 looms, and the cloth it produced sold on the Manchester Cotton Exchange.

[citation needed] In World War II, American forces from the neighbouring Warton Aerodrome resided in the village.

Other victims included several residents and both British and American military personnel in a snack bar across the road from the school.

Freckleton Library closed in September 2016 as part of Lancashire County Council budget cuts[18] but was reopened on 9 January 2018.

The side currently competes in the Premier Division of the Moore & Smalley Palace Shield Competition and will be led in 2015 by Andrew Hogarth, who succeeds the charismatic James 'Jimmy' Fiddler.