Grange-over-Sands
Also known as Grange
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.
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Church Hill, Grange over Sands - geograph.org.uk - 1835284.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church Hill
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Grange-over-Sands
- UK place.population
- 4,279
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Grange-over-Sands
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Westmorland and Lonsdale
- UK place.post_town
- GRANGE-OVER-SANDS
- UK place.postcode_district
- LA11
- UK place.postcode_area
- LA
Article
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Amenities
- Sanatorium
- Swimming pool
- Grange Lido
- Media
- Governance
- Education
- Tourism
- Hampsfield Fell
- Transport
- Train
- Bus
- Road
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
Travelling by road, Grange-over-Sands is to the south of Kendal, to the east of Ulverston, to the east of Barrow-in-Furness and to the north of Lancaster.
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