FORMBY Reporter is a
free email news service, run by professional journalists
and other professional news gatherers. The aim of this
site is to deliver a supplemental daily news and
information service, that backs up our popular weekly
online newspaper
Southport Reporter.
Just like our online newspaper service Southport
Reporter, Formby Reporter covers many of the major
braking news that takes place on, or is connected to,
the Merseyside area. Also the email service offers a
heads up for any interesting events that might be taking
place, backing up our
Mersey Reporter
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Where does Formby Reporter get is name?
OUR websites take the names of the
settlements on Merseyside, including its City,
the world famous Liverpool. Formby
was in fact where the idea of our online only
newspaper that became
Southport Reporter
was connived.
Formby was
originally a small village, but now it has grown
and is neither a village, as most would
recognise, but to small to be a town. It
is located on Sefton Coastline and is part of
the UK region known Merseyside.
Evidence of man though using the area stretches
back to approximately 3,500 to 4,000 years ago. This evidence has been confirmed after erosion of sand on
the beach at Formby revealed layers of mud and sediment, with
foot prints, laid down by
Neolithic and early
Bronze Age man.
Formby Village as we know it today, is now in
fact made up not one, but several very small villages
that have expanded over the mid to late 1900's
to what it is now today. The main village
that was to take over was
Formby and the other main area,
that still carries its name, but has become part
of Formby is Freshfeild.
Formby is thought to be one of the oldest settlements on Merseyside and
the current village is thought to have been founded by
the
Vikings. Oddly the
vast majority of the oldest buildings within the Formby
area are found within the Freshfeild half of the
village. The other historic part of the
areas rich history is sadly being eroded very
fast into the Irish Sea. That
building was the worlds first ever first ever
lifeboat station.
Despite its size, this area is world famous for
many things, from growing a food plant called
Asparagus, to having not one, but two
internationally
renowned golf courses;
Formby
Hall and
Formby Golf
Club.
Formby geographically is sited also mid way
between Southport, its nearest town and
Liverpool, it nearest city. You can see
its location on any map easily as Formby
points out in to the Irish Sea and is often
marked as Formby Point. It is also located
between two military bases, Altcar Training Camp and
RAF Woodvale as well as the
major international Golf course.
The nearest river is the Alt
that passes the south easterly edge of the
village and then moves off and into a village
called High Town through farmland and the army
camp. Formby's regional
association is Merseyside and is located in the
northern part that region, known as Sefton,
under Sefton MBC. The area is
also well known for it's incredibly rich
ecosystem, having three major nature reserves,
contain all types of endangered fauna and flora.
The most well known being the Naterjack toad and the other major inhabitants being
the Red Squirrel.
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