Fleetwood

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Fleetwood

/ˈfliːt.wʊd/ UK

Where it comes from

From Old English flēot (“pool, stream”) + wood.

proper noun

A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Wyre borough, Lancashire, England, founded by Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood (OS grid ref SD3348).
A town centre in the city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
A neighbourhood of Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York, United States.
A borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A surname.
The word used for the 35 in telephone numbers prefixes starting with 35. A corresponding letter for 3 can be an F, and a corresponding letter for 5 can be an L. For example, the phone number 35?-???? could be said as, "Fleetwood ?????". This helps to reduce errors made when exchanging contact information. See Wikipedia article, Telephone exchange names

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Closest in meaning: walker, rossall, fleet, freckleton, formby, wesham, poulton-le-fylde, fylde, fulwood, lytham, fairhaven, winmarleigh, fishwick, singleton, filey, cleveleys

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@misc{fleetwood_2026,
  title = {Fleetwood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fleetwood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}