Editing Lytham St Annes (section)

{{Short description|Town in Lancashire, England}}
{{Redirect|St. Annes|other uses|Saint Anne (disambiguation)}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox UK place
| static_image_name = Clifton Street - geograph.org.uk - 1300578.jpg
| static_image_caption = Clifton Street, Lytham (2009)
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|53.752|-3.030|type:city(50000)_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Lytham St Annes
| map_type = Lancashire
|population_ref           = {{nowrap|42,695 (Built up area, 2021)<ref name="census2021">{{cite web |title=Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, England and Wales: Census 2021 |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/townsandcitiescharacteristicsofbuiltupareasenglandandwales/census2021 |website=Census 2021 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=8 August 2023 |archive-date=21 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121221510/https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/townsandcitiescharacteristicsofbuiltupareasenglandandwales/census2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
| shire_district = [[Borough of Fylde|Fylde]]
| shire_county = [[Lancashire]]
| region = North West England
| constituency_westminster = [[Fylde (UK Parliament constituency)|Fylde]]
| post_town = LYTHAM ST. ANNES<!-- Royal Mail spells the official post town name with a full stop and no apostrophe -->
| postcode_district = FY8
| postcode_area = FY
| dial_code = 01253
| os_grid_reference = SD322289
| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Borough of Fylde#United Kingdom The Fylde
| pushpin_map_caption = Shown within Fylde Borough##Shown within the Fylde
}}
'''Lytham St Annes''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|ɪ|ð|əm|_|s|ən|t|_|ˈ|æ|n|z}})<ref>G.M. Miller, ''BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names'' (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 93.</ref> is a [[seaside town]] in the [[Borough of Fylde]] in [[Lancashire]], England. It is on the [[The Fylde|Fylde coast]], directly south of [[Blackpool]] on the [[Ribble Estuary]]. The population of the built-up area at the [[2021 United Kingdom census|2021 census]] was 42,695.<ref name="census2021" /> The town is made up of the four areas of Lytham, Ansdell, Fairhaven and St Annes-on-the-Sea.

Lytham is the older settlement, and the parish of Lytham used to cover the whole area. St Annes was founded as a new seaside resort in the 1870s on open land at the western end of the parish. From 1878 the two towns were administered separately (with Fairhaven and Ansdell being part of Lytham). They were reunited in 1922 under the compound name "Lytham St Annes". A [[civil parish]] called "Saint Anne's on the Sea" was created in 2005 just covering the western part of the built-up area.

Lytham St Annes has four [[golf course]]s and [[links (golf)|links]], the most notable being the [[Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club]], which regularly hosts the [[The Open Championship|Open Championship]].

Lytham St Annes is a reasonably affluent area with residents' earnings among the highest in the North of England.<ref>[http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/office_of_the_chief_executive/lancashireprofile/main/grossincome_2006.asp Average Gross Household Income by Wards 2006].  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601004404/http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/office_of_the_chief_executive/lancashireprofile/main/grossincome_2006.asp |date=1 June 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/sep/06/comment.comment|work=The Guardian|location=London|title=Around the culs-de-sac|first=David|last=McKie|date=6 September 2007|access-date=12 May 2010|archive-date=10 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810202819/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/sep/06/comment.comment|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www3.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/atoz/toptasks/index.asp?catID=16308 |title=Home – Lancashire County Council |website=Lancashire.gov.uk |access-date=27 July 2016 |archive-date=25 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225070708/http://www3.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/atoz/toptasks/index.asp?catID=16308 |url-status=live }}</ref>