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The Wyre was the town's first local commercial radio station and began broadcasting on 12 September 2005 from studios in Kidderminster.
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Wyre and was
In 2004 a bypass was constructed around Wyre Piddle.
In 1983, the Kidderminster constituency itself was absorbed into the Wyre Forest constituency, which currently encompasses all of Bewdley.
In June 2009, Wyre Forest District Council was approached by a former stall-holder with a view to reviving the market close to the bridge.
Kirkham and Wesham railway station was opened in 1840 as " Kirkham Station ", when the Preston and Wyre Railway and Harbour Company opened its line to Fleetwood.
Thomas Hilton Dawson, known as Hilton Dawson, ( born 30 September 1953 in Stannington, Northumberland ) was the Labour Party member of Parliament for the Lancashire constituency of Lancaster and Wyre from 1997 until 2005.
Strictly Wyre Forest was not a forest at all, but a chase of the Mortimer family, who had the title Earl of March from 1328.
The ship was brought by Royalists into the mouth of the River Wyre and the Earl of Derby marched from across the River Ribble.
With harbours on either side of the River Wyre, at Skippool and Wardleys, it was able to import goods from as far away as Russia and North America.
In 1836 the first building was constructed in the new, planned town of Fleetwood, north of Poulton, at the mouth of the River Wyre.
Prior to the 2010 general election, Poulton-le-Fylde was part of the constituency of Lancaster and Wyre.
Taylor was re-elected as member for Wyre Forest in the 2005 election, albeit with a considerably reduced majority.
Bishop Bjarni grew up on Wyre, and was the son of Kolbein Hruga ( see Cubbie Roo's Castle below ), Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland says of him that he:
In King Haakon's saga, it is mentioned that after the last Norse Earl of Orkney, Earl John, was murdered in Thurso, his killers fled to Wyre.
He was elected as the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wyre Forest in the 1997 general election, but lost his seat in the 2001 election to Richard Taylor, the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate.
There is evidence that the eastern side of the River Wyre was occupied during the Danish invasions of the 9th and 10th centuries, and by the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the land on which Fleetwood now stands was part of the Hundred of Amounderness.
A third lighthouse, Wyre Light, built in 1839-40 by blind engineer Alexander Mitchell, offshore on the northeast corner of North Wharf, was the first screw pile lighthouse to be built in Great Britain.
Work on what was to become Wyre Dock began in 1869 but was suspended for financial reasons.
The main railway station was closed in 1966 as a result of the Beeching cuts, and the passenger terminus was moved to Wyre Dock station.
The area around Burn Naze on the western side of the Wyre Estuary was formerly known as Bergerode, believed to be an Old English term for " shallow harbour ", beor grade.
Wyre Dock was built there between 1869 and 1877.
In 2007 an Iron Age settlement was discovered on Bourne Hill on the Fylde, located between Fleetwood and Thornton near to the River Wyre, with evidence of roundhouses, an embankment, an ancient cobbled trackway and defensive embankments.
Wyre and town's
At the most recent borough election in 2011 the town's four wards each elected two Conservative Party councillors, including the mayor of Wyre for 2011 David Bannister and the current leader of the council Peter Gibson.
Wyre and first
As part of educational restructuring in the Wyre Forest district, Kidderminster's schools were reorganised from a three-tier system of first, middle and high schools to the two-tier system more common in the UK as a whole with primary schools and secondary schools.
He became the first Labour MP in the Wyre Forest for many years but lost his seat when he supported changes to the accident and emergency services at Kidderminster General Hospital in the face of public opposition.
The Wyre Forest constituency was first fought under its present name in the 1983 general election, having succeeded the old Kidderminster seat, and was won for the Conservatives by Esmond Bulmer.
Wyre and local
Bewdley is now governed by three tiers of local government ; in increasing order of size: Bewdley town council, Wyre Forest district council and Worcestershire county council.
The MP for Wyre Forest is Mark Garnier of the Conservative Party, who in 2010 unseated the incumbent, Richard Taylor of Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern ( often simply Health Concern ), a local organisation.
The local hospital included in the Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust include
Before the 2004 local elections, it held 16 seats on Wyre Forest district council, making it the single biggest party, but in those elections it lost half of these seats to the Conservative Party.
* Wyre local elections
* Wyre Forest local elections
A rebuilt barn, called the “ Ruskin Studio ”, acts as a base for the Wyre Community Land Trust, which engages with a wide range of local projects, promoting rural crafts and skills, hosting events and receiving educational visits.
Turnout in the Wyre Forest at general elections has generally been around 2-3 % above the national average, but in 2001 the constituency recorded a 68. 0 % turnout as against 59. 4 % nationally ; this spike ( not repeated in 2005 ) is widely attributed to the intense local feelings on the hospital issue.
Thornton – Cleveleys is an unparished area ( and former urban district ), currently in the English local government district of Wyre, Lancashire, covering the towns of Thornton and Cleveleys.
Wyre and commercial
Although there is no through road ( to get there one has to pass through neighbouring Preesall ), the village is in fact the main commercial centre for the Over Wyre area.
Wyre and station
On 7 February 2012, UTV Radio announced the station would be rebranded as Signal 107, following the company's buyout of former MNA stations The Wyre and The Severn, which 107. 7 The Wolf is due to merge with.
The station can be heard from Fleetwood in the Wyre district, in the northwest corner of the Fylde, Preston to the east and Southport, west-southwest of Preston.
Opened by the Blackpool and Lytham Railway, then absorbed by the Preston and Wyre Joint Railway, the station joined the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923.
Wyre and broadcasting
The Wyre ceased broadcasting in 2012 and Signal 107 launched on 26 March 2012.
Wyre and on
It is separated from mainland Orkney by the Eynhallow Sound, and, like its neighbours Egilsay and Wyre, can be reached by a ro-ro ferry ( MV Eynhallow ) from Tingwall, on the mainland of Orkney, which takes 20 – 25 minutes.
* Cubbie Roo's Castle is built on Wyre, Orkney.
While the Trough of Bowland ( the valley and high pass connecting the Wyre ( at Marshaw ) and Langden Brook and dividing the upland core of Bowland into two main blocks ) represents the area, to many, on account of its popularity, it is in fact only a small part of the wider Forest of Bowland area.
" Posting ( Woodsleigh, Moss Lane, St. Michaels on Wyre, Preston, PR3 0TY, UK: 2005 )
On the other side of the church, Welch Gate ( so called because it once contained a tollgate on the road towards Wales ) climbs steeply up to the west, while a continuation of the B4194 leads northwest towards the Wyre Forest.
It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name of Chicheham and is described as lying on the Roman road between Ribchester ( Bremetennacum ) and the River Wyre.
Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the south of Kidderminster and down stream on the River Severn from Bewdley.
* Wyre Forest on UK Forestry Commission site
Goods were imported and exported through two harbours on the River Wyre.
Later documentary evidence suggests that they were probably the churches at Poulton, Kirkham and St Michael's on Wyre.
The town is on flat, slightly raised ground, approximately from the River Wyre and from the Irish Sea.
Orkney Ferries sail from the island to Tingwall on the Orkney Mainland via Wyre and Rousay.
The poet Edwin Muir ( 1887 – 1959 ), known for his prominent part in the Scottish Renaissance, born in Deerness on Mainland, Orkney, spent much of his childhood on Wyre.
* Information on the island of Wyre
Fleetwood Freeport and Marina ( 1995 ) is built on the site of the former Wyre Dock
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