Take a look at Cleveleys Town Centre

Find Cleveleys town centre in the space between the sea front and the Blackpool to Fleetwood tramway. Enjoy a great mix of local shopping by the sea.

Cleveleys town centre is quite compact, easy to get to and get around. It’s a comfortable place with benches, pavement cafes, public toilets and frequent street entertainment – all right next to the beautiful seafront.

Family Friendly Shopping by the Sea

Cleveleys is one of the best places to visit, for family friendly shopping by the sea. And you’ll find a really good mix of shops here, all close to each other, without having to walk a long way between shops, like you would in some town centres.

East to West

Victoria Road West (below) is Cleveleys main shopping street. It runs almost at right angles to the coast, in an east/west direction.

In Cleveleys town centre you’ll find national names, side-by-side with local independents. Visit a really good mix of shops which includes clothes, food retailers, supermarkets, furniture and homewares. We’ve got independent butchers, bakers (sorry – no candlestick makers!), a fishmongers, fruit and veg, and many more.

Take a look around the town centre. This is one in a series of films we regularly make, visiting the town centre and traders. Take a look at the Visit Cleveleys playlist (below) on our Visit Fylde Coast YouTube channel for many more.

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You can actually sustain yourself quite nicely with the shops at Cleveleys if you can’t, or don’t want to go elsewhere. There aren’t many small town centres that can still say that!

In common with many town centres we also have our share of charity shops in Cleveleys. However, they’re all excellent quality. Well presented and well stocked they’re somewhere to bag a bargain while helping a good cause. They’re also important in this consumer world, because they put our unwanted possessions to good use, making a massive contribution to waste reduction. They’re very popular with shoppers – in fact they’re a visitor attraction in their own right!

Watch the world go by

Cleveleys town centre is a great place to watch the world go by. The main section of high street has a wide pavement with plenty of pavement cafes.

And there are plenty of benches too. It’s a friendly place, so if you sit down you can bet you’ll end up chatting to someone!

If you’re lucky, you might catch street entertainers and buskers playing in the town centre which makes for a nice atmosphere, especially on a sunny day.

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Victoria Road West

The main shopping street in Cleveleys town centre is Victoria Road West. It runs at right angles from the promenade, intersecting the tramway at Victoria Square.

Victoria Road West continues as far inland as the big roundabout. That’s the junction for Morrison’s supermarket, Victoria Road East (to Thornton), Fleetwood and the A585.

Did you know? That you can see the tall, white Sea Swallow sculpture on the seafront from Morrison’s roundabout?

The other end of Victoria Road West reaches as far as Cleveleys seafront. The next photo is taken from the promenade with the sea behind you. We’re looking inland along Victoria Road West, past the Clock Shelter at the little roundabout (below). Head along the high street from here and on your left is one of the first ever B&M Bargains in the UK!

At the centre of the town – Victoria Square

Victoria Road West crosses the tramway at Victoria Square – it’s right in the centre of Cleveleys (below). The shops of Cleveleys town centre radiate from this central cross roads.

• You’ll find shops along all four sides of Victoria Square adjacent to the tramway. That’s The Crescent (East and West) to the south of the traffic lights and Rossall Road to the north.
• Busy areas on Victoria Road West as far as the sea heading west.
• More shops, places to eat and service businesses heading inland at Victoria Road West, as far as the Tramway Pub.
• Shops along the little side streets which join the main shopping street.

North to South

The main road between Blackpool and Fleetwood crosses the town centre at the traffic lights next to the Blackpool tramway.

This main road is the A587. It goes north to south, cutting through the centre of town at Cleveleys Square. This is where the main tram stop is, with trams operated by Blackpool Transport.

Through the centre of Victoria Square the roads are one way, separated by the tramway. You’ll find shops along both sides of the road here too. Crescent West (from the lights on the same side as Aldi) becomes Fleetwood Road at Bispham Road. Crescent East (from the lights on the same side as Ormrod’s Solicitors) becomes Kelso Avenue at the Health Centre, joining Fleetwood Road where the tramway merges at Anchorsholme Park to become Queen’s Promenade.

Pass through the traffic lights at Victoria Square heading North and it’s Rossall Road heading north. The other side (adjacent to the NatWest) is Brighton Avenue. You can see Brighton Avenue in the next photo taken from the main junction – to the right of the tram. Rossall Road is to the left of the tram.

Did you know? This central part of the town used to be laid to grassy gardens?

Shopping in Cleveleys

Cleveleys is a vibrant town with a good variety of shops. A local resident can actually manage quite nicely with the shops that are here, without ever having to go anywhere else. You can’t say that for the high streets in many other modern town centres!

Independent Shops

There are plenty of independent food and grocery shops, including:

• Grimes and Rogerson’s, local butchers,
• The Fish Plaice fishmongers,
• Family Bakery and Beans bakeries,
• Fleetwood Produce green grocers.

Other independent stores sell all kinds of other things:

• Philips Jewellers, Jewellers Workbench and Fergusons
• Millstores – in the old Wilko unit
• Various vape stores
• Javid’s, Elegant Clothing and other independent clothes shops
• Boutique Homeware, Cleveleys Carpets and Style Carpets
• Plus many others!

National, High Street Names

It’s a busy, well used spot, so Cleveleys is also fortunate to have plenty of national high street names, supermarkets and more.

• Clothing shops Bon Marche, Peacocks and New Look
• One of the very first B&M Bargains, Home Bargains and Poundland
• O2 mobile phone shop
• Boots and Superdrug
• Supermarkets Iceland (below), Aldi, Sainsbury’s Local and Marks and Spencer Simply Food in the town centre
• Lidl is a short walk out of town in one direction – plus Morrison’s on the outskirts in the other
• Pound Bakery, Subway and Papa Johns
• The Works, Card Factory and TG Jones (WH Smith).
• Plus numerous hairdressers, beauty parlours and travel agents.
• Post Office and several banks and building societies.
• And for the thrifty among us the charity shops – good ones too!
• And a lot more – possibly the only thing missing is the candlestick maker!

Cleveleys Market

There’s also a seasonal weekly market, held on Wednesdays throughout the warmer months of the year. It’s had a bit of a chequered start but has hopefully found its forever-home at Princes Road (outside B&M). More about Cleveleys market here. Princes Road will hopefully be pedestrianised in 2025 to create a market and events space.

A bite to eat while you’re Shopping in Cleveleys

Cleveleys is particularly well catered for with places to eat.

There are cafes of all kinds along the length of the high street, most of which have outdoor eating facilities. It’s especially nice to sit outside on a sunny day and eat and drink while watching the world go by.

Cafes, takeaways and bars include:

• Costa Coffee
• Family Bakery and Hunters and Carters
• The Coffee Bar (below) and The Coffee Barn!
• Juice Wave – serving healthier food and drinks
• Kays fish and chips and Fish Loves Chips
• The Shipwreck Brewhouse, micro brewery
• Bars including Backstage, The Vault, Decades, the Glasshouse, Wobblinn and Wetherspoons The Jolly Tars
• Cafe Marina, Renoir and Cleveleys Kitchen
• New Yorker and Mr Nitro’s for ice cream, plus Terry’s ice cream van on the Plaza
• The Venue – right on the seafront just outside the town centre
• and plenty more!

Dog Friendly Shopping in Cleveleys

Cleveleys is an ideal place to bring Fido if you are a pet lover. Your husband has his choice of seats while you do the shopping! There’s plenty to watch and people to chat to, then you can have a brew together at an outside table.

Most of them even provide water for your four legged friend, there are so many canine visitors to Cleveleys. Many local businesses are dog friendly, particularly if your pooch is small enough to be carried or travels in a dog pram.

• Check out the dog friendly businesses here

More to a Great Day Out at Cleveleys

When you’ve finished in the town centre, you can enjoy a lovely stroll along the sea front and beautiful promenade.

Have a cup of tea, a walk to the sea front, maybe an ice cream and a tour of the shops and it’s a great way to enjoy the day.

There’s also a History and Mystery walking trail – available online or as a leaflet – spot the posters in the town centre too. You can also explore the Mythic Coast trail and find the pieces of public art. You won’t miss some of them, but the Ogre might be a little trickier to find…

Take a look at the pieces of the trail, and where to find them, in this video –

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Parking, Buses and Toilets

There are a number of short and long stay car parks in Cleveleys.

• In Cleveleys town centre:
  On Rough Lea Road there is a short stay car park towards the rear of Iceland.
  There are two long stay car parks on Derby Road, opposite the bus station.
• There’s a long stay car park on the seafront at Jubilee Gardens and an adjacent short stay next to the cafe.
• There is free (but limited) on-street parking all over the area, both on side streets and on the promenade.

Cleveleys bus station is just a few yards walk from the centre of Cleveleys. It’s towards the seaward end of town, near to B&M Bargains.

Did you know? B&M Bargains began here in Cleveleys!

Public toilets in Cleveleys are single cubicle-style, managed by Danfo and are pay on entry with coins. Find them in the car park on Rough Lea Road, and at the bus station. There are more toilets at the promenade cafe, opposite Jubilee Gardens.

Looking After the Town Centre

You’ll be amazed at how great Cleveleys looks when you visit! It’s clean and tidy with plenty of flowers, decorations, artworks and things to look out for. And all done by the fabulous Care for Cleveleys volunteers. It’s part of the Cleveleys Town Centre Group and ‘Cleveleys Together‘ town centre partnership board. This astonishing band of people keep the town clean and looked after, enter the national In Bloom competition, organise events and decorate the town at Christmas.

It all started with a £10,000 government grant back in early 2017 to establish a Coastal Community Team. That initial investment has grown into enormous community spirit and achievement. There’s an amazing sense of community spirit in Cleveleys. Local people love their town, and tourists love to visit. You’ll feel the warmth of the place when you shop here – people are friendly and welcoming.

Keep up to speed, and get involved, by joining the ‘Care for Cleveleys’ Facebook group.

Other Handy Nearby Shopping Areas

Here in Cleveleys, as in many other areas around the Fylde Coast, local residents are lucky to still be able to use the many stretches of local shops in the community. Away from the bigger town centres they’re handy for those with limited transport.

There are shops along Rossall Road, and at Anchorsholme Lane East (which is technically in Blackpool but very handy for Cleveleys). You’ll find local shops at Cleveleys Park and some others besides.

Shopping in Thornton

The postal address ‘Thornton Cleveleys’  is actually two separate places. The name comes from the old railway station which was ‘Thornton for Cleveleys’.

Thornton is the area slightly inland from the coast, beyond the A585 Amounderness Way. There are shopping areas at Marsh Mill (below) and at Thornton Village where you’ll find a supermarket, local shops and a post office.

Marsh Mill Village is where you’ll see Marsh Mill Windmill, along with a complex of small shops, businesses, a pub and private houses. They’re all arranged around a pretty courtyard which hosts events and entertainment. There are further shops beyond the village along the main road.

Thornton Village is a pretty place, near to the now disused Thornton Railway station and railway line to Fleetwood. The station is being restored and is looked after by Poulton and Wyre Railway Society.