Grange-over-Sands
Grange-over-Sands is a town and civil parish on the north side of Morecambe Bay in Cumbria, England, a few miles south of the Lake District National Park.
In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 4,114, increasing at the 2021 census to 4,279.
Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, the town became administered as an urban district in 1894. Though the town remains part of the Duchy of Lancaster, since 2023 it has been administered as part of the Westmorland and Furness Council area.
Getting to Grange-over-Sands
Grange-over-Sands has trains from Lancaster, which is on the main line between London Euston and Glasgow. You normally change there, but direct trains run from Manchester Airport and Piccadilly via Preston. From Lancaster the trains call at Carnforth, Silverdale, Arnside, then cross the bay to Grange-over-Sands and continue to Cark, Ulverston, Dalton and Barrow-in-Furness.
Worth seeing
Hampsfield Fell Cartmel Fell
- 01Cartmel Priory
Founded in 1190 Lakeland Miniature Village, Winder Ln, Flookburgh, LA11 7LE.
- 02Holker Hall
Grand mansion dating from the 16th century, but the Jacobean style is a 19th-century make-over.
- 03Stott Park Bobbin Mill
Opened in 1835 and variously powered by water, steam then electricity, this produced the wooden bobbins on which Lancashire cotton was wound.
Things to do
Cartmel Racecourse. Grange-over-Sands Golf Club. North West Parachute Centre (skydive northwest).
Getting around Grange-over-Sands the local way
- Get inA few trains continue south to Heysham Port to meet the ferries.
- Get inIsle of Man car ferries sail between Heysham and Douglas Isle of Man, taking four hours.
From Wikivoyage: Morecambe, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.
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