Quick Visitors Guide to Cleveleys

If you haven't been to Cleveleys before, and you aren't sure where everything is and what the facilities for visitors are like, then this quick guide is for you.

You could also print it out and bring it with you, as a handy tourist guide!

All the information is elsewhere in the site, but here it's all together in bullet point form!

• Cleveleys is a small seaside town half way between Blackpool and Fleetwood. It has a brand new promenade with uninterrupted access to clean sandy beaches and sea front facilities include a cinema, and a brand new ice rink, and an adjacent park with a skatepark and small childrens climbing frames/swings etc.
• The main road that follows the prom along the coast at Blackpool comes slightly away from the promenade at Cleveleys, so if you are following the coast road from Blackpool there are two ways into the centre of Cleveleys. You can follow the promenade, keeping against the tram lines, until you get to a cross roads at Cleveleys near to an Aldi supermarket and turn left at the lights on this main junction which takes you down the high street (Victoria Road West) and public car parks are available behind the right hand side of the main high street.
• Coming from Blackpool you'll come to a toilet block building where you can cross the tram lines to keep against the sea wall at Anchorsholme, which takes you along Princes Way which is the promenade at the southern end of Cleveleys. There is on street parking here, right next to the beach.
• The main shopping street (Victoria Road West) is one way from the traffic light cross roads intersection, travelling in the direction of the sea.
• There is free parking on the road on Princes Way which is the promenade area on the Bispham/Blackpool side of Cleveleys. It can be accessed from the main promenade road approaching Cleveleys from Blackpool. Or if you turn left at the end of Cleveleys high street.
• If you come to Cleveleys by bus, there are stops at the main cross road junction, and the bus station is on Rough Lea Road, right at the back of the high street and very accessible.
• If you come to Cleveleys by tram, the stops are again at the main cross road intersection, just yards away from the high street.
• There is a small but perfectly formed high street which runs at right angles to the promenade, with shops on both sides of the main cross roads approach to the town.
• Shops cover a wide range of products, with food retailers, discount shops, high street names, clothes shopping, indoor markets, supermarkets and cafes.
• The shopping street goes right to the seafront, where it meets a specially built performance area which is integral to the promenade.
• This performance area has public free seating is used during special events, and is where performers are often to be found at weekends.
• The beach at Cleveleys is tidal, so twice each day the water comes up to the sea defences and cleans the beach, but this also means there isn't any exposed sand to play/walk on.
• Further along northwards there is a dry beach at high tide, although it is a pebble beach.
• The design of the sea defences is in steps down to the sand which allows uninterrupted beach access but also provides unlimited seating for people enjoying time on the beach.
• The promenade is built in such a way that the design supplements the benches and seats which are provided, again creating unlimited seating.
• There are public toilets at the back of the wide side of the high street, through an alley between New Look and a cafe. They are Danfo individual cubicle toilets, with a door fee of 20p.
• Additional toilets can be found on the promenade across from Jubilee Gardens in the cream, curved cafe building on the front. These are also Danfo 20p ones.
• If you want to bring a bike you can cycle all the way from Blackpool to Fleetwood (and probably beyond if you cross to Knott End by ferry). The main promenade at Cleveleys and through to Fleetwood is home to an official cycle path.
• There are hire bike stations at Ancholshome (which is in Blackpool borough). There are two sites on Princes Way - one at the tram crossing and one near to the Cleveleys boundary, where you can pick up a bike and hire it. The bikes have to be taken back there, or to other locations in Blackpool, there are no sites in the Cleveleys/Fleetwood or Wyre areas.