Fleetwood put-in (Wyre)

Rossall Point marks the northernmost point of the Fylde coast, where the shoreline turns from running north-south to run east along Morecambe Bay, the second largest embayment in Britain after the Wash, at over 310 square kilometres, fed by four estuaries (the Wyre, Lune, Kent and Leven) and holding the largest continuous stretch of intertidal mudflats and sandflats in the UK. Around a billion cubic metres of water moves in and out of the bay with every tide. At low water the sand here dries out to roughly two miles from the shore, broken by gullies and by King Scar, a shale skear lying around two nautical miles off the point; the deeper Lune Deep channel and the buoyed approach into the Wyre stay under water and carry Fleetwood's fishing and commercial traffic toward the harbour.

These flats form part of the Morecambe Bay and Duddon Estuary Special Protection Area, Ramsar site and Site of Special Scientific Interest, used by more than 20,000 waterbirds in a season, with the neighbouring Wyre Estuary holding nationally important numbers of pink-footed goose, teal, black-tailed godwit and redshank. On the point itself, the leaning Rossall Point Observation Tower, completed in 2013 as the base for the National Coastwatch Institution, replaced a 1948 coastguard lookout on the same site. Further along toward the mouth of the Wyre, the Pharos and Beach lighthouses of 1840 still stand; the Grade II listed Beach Lighthouse forms a leading line into the harbour channel.