Little Bispham put-in

This launch sits on the open eastern Irish Sea within Liverpool Bay, where the Ribble, Mersey and Dee estuaries drain into a broad, shallow arc of mostly sand and gravelly sand seabed. The coast here is macrotidal, with mean spring tides moving through a range of around 8 metres referenced to the standard port of Liverpool, so the beach empties to sand flats at low water and closes up against the sea wall at high water.

At low tide, the wooden ribs of the Abana, a barque wrecked here in a storm in December 1894, can still be seen protruding from the sand at Little Bispham. The nearest structure at the water's edge is the Little Bispham tram-station shelter, a 1930s streamlined moderne building that combined a tram shelter, public toilets and promenade shelter, and served as a model for later prewar promenade stations on this coast.

Fylde Boat Angling Club, based on the promenade's Lower Walk at Little Bispham since 1971, launches members' boats across the beach by tractor up to seven days a week. Blackpool Council and the Environment Agency are also placing rock groynes along this stretch of coast, including the run from Bispham to Little Bispham, with the council's contract for the works covering renewal of the Little Bispham slipway and its beach access steps.