grange over sands & the cartmel peninsula...
Grange-over-Sands has long enjoyed the balmy influence of the Gulf Stream, and became a fashionable seaside resort once the railway arrived in the 1850s
Grange retains much elegance from its Edwardian heyday, with ornamental gardens, attractive shopping arcades and a sea-front promenade for relaxing walks.
Outside Grange, the gentle scenery of the Cartmel peninsula evokes an aura of timelessness, with sculpted limestone pavements, wooded hills and green pastoral fields merging into the peripheral saltmarshes and mudflats of Morecambe Bay.
About the area
History & heritage
the Romans under Agricola crossed the sands on their campaign to subjugate the Brigantian tribes of northern Britain
grange history
grange heritage
Art & culture
The talented efforts of Edward Robinson have created an impressive collection of miniature buildings
Natural environment
Jutting into Morecambe Bay is the promontory of Humphrey Head - a long tapering whaleback of Carboniferous limestone
What's on
One of the most colourful and noisiest gatherings of steam engines and vintage vehicles in the country
Oddities
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay takes its name from ‘Mare Cymri' meaning sea of the Celts.Holker Lime
The great Holker Lime at Holker Hall is one of Cumbria's veteran trees, with a massive girth of 7.9 metres. The tree was planted in the early 1600s as part of a formal planting scheme.John Wilkinson (1728-1808)
John Wilkinson (1728-1808), the great ironmaster, made his own cast-iron coffin and arranged to be buried in the gardens of his home at Castle Head, with his grave surmounted by a monumental 20-ton cast-iron obelisk. Although his instructions were carried out, later owners of the house had the coffin re-buried in the local churchyard in 1828. The obelisk was moved to its current location on the B5277 in 1863.
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