Blackpool Promenade

{{Short description|Street in Blackpool, England}}

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| name = Blackpool Promenade

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| other_name = The Prom

| image = Blackpool promenade - DSC07204.JPG

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| caption = Pictured in 2010, looking north towards Blackpool Tower

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| part_of = A584

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| length_mi = 4

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| location = Blackpool, Lancashire, England

| direction_a = North

| terminus_a = Queen's Promenade

| direction_b = South

| terminus_b = Squires Gate Lane & Clifton Drive North

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Blackpool Promenade (known colloquially as the Prom) is a road and esplanade in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It runs for around {{Convert|4|mi}}, from Queen's Promenade, at Gynn Square, in the north to a junction with Squires Gate Lane and Clifton Drive North in the south. The promenade replaced a small parade which existed in the 1780s. That seafront road was subject to erosion, leading to a realigned replacement being constructed in the 1820s.{{Cite book |last=Barton |first=Susan |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Travel_and_Tourism_in_Britain_1700_1914/r7FQEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=blackpool+promenade+19th+century&pg=PT324&printsec=frontcover |title=Travel and Tourism in Britain, 1700–1914 Vol 4 |last2=Brodie |first2=Allan |date=2021-12-16 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-55985-9 |language=en}}

Blackpool's three piers―North, Central and South―have entrances from the esplanade, while the {{convert|518|ft|m|abbr=off|adj=on}} Blackpool Tower overlooks the promenade and esplanade from the inland side, near Central Pier.

A {{convert|1.7|mi|km|abbr=off|adj=on}} stretch of the promenade, between North Pier and South Pier, is called the "Golden Mile". A "comedy carpet" was installed in the esplanade, opposite Blackpool Tower, in 2011. It was designed by Gordon Young.{{Cite web |last=Cole |first=Margo |date=2011-10-06 |title=Blackpool's £100M seaside splash |url=https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/blackpools-100m-seaside-splash-06-10-2011/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=New Civil Engineer |language=en}}

The town's annual Illuminations, established in 1879,{{cite book |last=Parsons |first=R. H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghREBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 |title=The Early Days of the Power Station Industry |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9781107475045 |page=7}} run the entire length of the esplanade and promenade, plus an additional {{Convert|1|mi}} to the north, beyond Gynn Square to Red Bank Road on Bispham's Queen's Promenade.