Rossall

Rossall is a settlement in Lancashire, England and a suburb of the market town of Fleetwood.

Before the Norman conquest of England of 1066, the manor of Rossall was—as part of the ancient hundred of Amounderness—in the possession of Earl Tostig, the brother of King Harold II.

[1] In the Domesday Book of 1086, the manor was listed as Rushale, and in later documents as Rossall (1212) and Roshale (1228).

[2] The Allens, a prominent Roman Catholic family, occupied the manor until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century.

[4] The couple chose to live at Rossall and it is likely that Roger Hesketh built the hall that existed into the 20th century.

Kemp borrowed against the estate revenues to finance the expansion of Fleetwood, and Hesketh became over-leveraged.

This ward stretches north to include part of Fleetwood with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 6,381.