Out Rawcliffe is a village and

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on the north bank of the

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in the Over Wyre area of the Fylde in

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, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 626. It is the location of the medieval Rawcliffe Hall. The hall is still being used today as a bar and function room a
Rawcliffe Hall Holiday Park
The village has one

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church, Out Rawcliffe St John Church, built in 1838 in the Romanesque style by John Deerhurst, the year after he had designed Preston Prison. The village also had one school, Out Rawcliffe Church of England Primary School, which was closed down due to lack of pupil entrants, as well as a

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that stages a monthly quiz night. Out Rawcliffe was once a

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in the ancient parish of St Michael's on Wyre. This became a

in 1866, forming part of the Garstang Rural District from 1894 till 1974. It has since become part of the

Borough of Wyre Wyre is a local government district with borough status on the coast of Lancashire, England. The council is based in Poulton-le-Fylde and the borough also contains the towns of Cleveleys, Fleetwood, Garstang, Preesall and Thornton, along w ...

. Along with Great Eccleston, Inskip-with-Sowerby and Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre and Kirkland, Out Rawcliffe forms part of the Great Eccleston

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of Wyre Borough Council.

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The RawcliffesOut Rawcliffe Parish CouncilOut Rawcliffe Primary School websiteNeighbourhood Statistics for Out Rawcliffe (CP)
Villages in Lancashire Geography of the Borough of Wyre The Fylde Civil parishes in Lancashire {{Lancashire-geo-stub

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