Kirkland is a civil parish, located on the banks of the River Wyre, midway between Preston and Lancaster, in the English county of Lancashire.

The church features: There are significant pointers such as a circular churchyard with several yew trees to its original use as a Druid temple.

It was believed by some that the area may have been the site where Christian missionaries from Ireland first set foot in Lancashire at the end of the navigational portion of the River Wyre which flows to the Irish Sea some 14 miles (23 km) away.

[3] Although known as "The Cross", the village has an 18th-century Grade II listed dialpost with a sundial at its head, at the top of Church Street.

This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Garstang Rural District from 1894 till 1974.