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Grange-over-Sands [3] 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, [ 4 ] increasing at the 2021 census to 4,279. [ 1 ]
The area is served by the number 6 bus route, operated by Stagecoach Cumbria; this connects Newby Bridge with Barrow-in-Furness, Bowness-on-Windermere, Grange-over-Sands, Kendal and Ulverston. [ 3 ] The A590 road runs through Newby Bridge, connecting Barrow-in-Furness to the M6 motorway close to Kendal.
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The lido opened in 1932. The buildings were designed by Grange-over-Sands Urban District Council's surveyor, named Bernard Smith [2] or Thomas Huddlestone. [3] The lido sits on Grange promenade on the shore of Morecambe Bay, although as of 2019 the changing course of the River Kent means that the sea is at some distance from the promenade, separated by salt marsh.
The church is part of the Diocese of Carlisle, Archdeaconry of Westmorland & Furness and the Deanery of Windermere.Inside Windermere it is part of the parish of St. Paul Grange-over-Sands along with St Paul Parish Church in the town centre, both of which share the same vicar who is, The Reverend Andrew Norman (September 2019).
Morecambe and the neighbouring village of Heysham are the setting of the Cthulhu Mythos novel The Weird Shadow over Morecambe, published by the writer Edmund Glasby in 2014. [48] The title of the book is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft 's story " The Shadow over Innsmouth ", which is also set in a seaside town.
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Also in the church are two pairs of churchwardens' stalls dating from the 20th century, and a wooden font. [2] The east window in the south chapel dates from 1888 and was designed by S. Evans; the other windows date from the 20th century and are by Shrigley and Hunt or by Abbott and Company. [ 3 ]