[1] Located roughly in Blackpool's geographical centre (although some distance from the coastal business district), Layton accounts for a relatively large part of the town's total area.

Layton is bounded by the districts of Bispham (to the north), Whitegate (to the west), Grange Park (to the east) and Marton (to the south).

The local board was renamed Blackpool in 1868 and the district was made a municipal borough in 1876.

[5][6] The north of Layton has one of Blackpool's main concentrations of shops and other businesses outside the town centre.

Established during the town's Victorian expansion, it has a small Judaic burial area.