{{Short description|Prominent street in Poulton-le-Fylde, England}}
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'''Ball Street''' is a historic street in the market town of Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England. It runs for about {{convert|300|ft|yd}}, from the junction of Chapel Street, Vicarage Road and Breck Road in the east to its convergence with Tithebarn Street in the west. It is one-way westbound. The street, which is the start or end of today's B5267, has existed since at least the 19th century, which is when the Golden Ball public house (from which the street takes its name)<ref name="moore218">[https://www.visitlytham.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/History-of-Blackpool-Nick-Moore.pdf ''A History of Blackpool, the Fylde and South Wyre''] – Nick Moore (2018), p. 218</ref> was built. To the right of the Golden Ball once stood two houses.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-01 |title=Then and Now - Poulton Historical and Civic Society |url=https://plf-hcs.org.uk/then-and-now/ |access-date=2024-10-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref> The shop at 5A Ball Street occupies the former entrance to one of the houses. One of them became a small private school.
The southern side of the street forms the northern boundary of the raised graveyard of St Chad's Church. In the early 20th century, the row of buildings lining this side of the street were demolished,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ball Street, Poulton ~ C1880(?) |url=https://redrosecollections.lancashire.gov.uk/view-item?i=235999 |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=Red Rose Collections from Lancashire County Council |language=en-GB}}</ref> resulting in today's unobstructed view of St Chad's.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-02 |title=Historical images of Poulton-le-Fylde take you back to a long lost era |url=https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/11-unearthed-scenes-of-poulton-le-fylde-through-the-decades-including-blackpool-old-road-market-place-and-st-chads-church-4166985 |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=Blackpool Gazette |language=en}}</ref> Now, between the northern end of the pedestrianised Church Street to the west and the Thatched House in the east, there are two bus stops along the paved area. The Thatched House, built in 1907, replaced a tavern believed to have been called the Green Man, which was on the site in 1793, and may have been built in the Middle Ages.<ref name="HistoricSurvey22">Lancashire County Council & Egerton Lea Consultancy (2005), p. 22</ref>
Ball Street, and the adjoining Tithebarn Street, are part of Wyre Council's Poulton-le-Fylde Conservation Area Appraisal.<ref>{{cite web |date=28 April 2008 |title=Poulton-le-Fylde Conservation Area Appraisal |url=https://www.wyre.gov.uk/downloads/file/714/poulton-le-fylde-conservation-area-appraisal |access-date=13 February 2022 |publisher=Wyre Council}}</ref>
<gallery> File:Ball Street, Poulton-le-Fylde.jpg|Ball Street in the early 20th century, looking east towards where the Thatched House public house now stands File:Ball Street Poulton 2024.jpg|The same view in 2024 </gallery>
== Public transport == [[File:Preston Bus 2024.jpg|thumb|Preston Bus's route 76 on Ball Street in 2024]] Ball Street bus stop's stand one is served by Blackpool Transport routes 5, 5C and 12, while stand two is served by Transpora routes 24 and 523, Blackpool Transport's 74 and 75, Preston Bus's 76 and Stagecoach's 42.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Google Maps |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/St+Chads+Church+(Stand+2)/@53.847454,-2.9928138,19z/data=!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x487b42e1fff1ad0b:0x3604fd53932b7231!2sThe+Bull,+Poulton!8m2!3d53.8462464!4d-2.9927133!10e5!16s/g/1tk6_0tr!3m5!1s0x487b42e1e1259a7b:0xc35dbda3af8b4c96!8m2!3d53.84742!4d-2.99213!16s/g/1tp_5yb_?entry=ttu |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=Google Maps |language=en}}</ref> The two stands are to make up for there being no opposing bus stops, given that Ball Street is one-way.
== References == {{reflist}} Category:Poulton-le-Fylde Category:Roads in Lancashire