Torrisholme
Torrisholme is a suburb of Morecambe, Lancashire, on the North West coast of England. In the 2001 census, the Torrisholme Ward had a population of 6,758 living in 3,118 households, decreasing marginally to 6,755 at the 2011 Census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Ascension and Bare Lane railway station.
Bare Lane railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bare Lane is a railway station on the Morecambe Branch Line, which runs between Lancaster and Heysham Port. The station, situated 2+1⁄2 miles west of Lancaster, serves the suburb of Bare in Morecambe, Lancashire.
Lancaster and Morecambe College
College
Lancaster and Morecambe College is a further education College situated on Torrisholme Road, between Lancaster and Morecambe, Lancashire, England. The college has been providing the local area with access to further and higher education since it was built in the 1950s although it can trace its mission back to Lancaster Mechanics Institute in 1824.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poulton-le-Sands and Skerton.
Poulton-le-Sands
Neighborhood
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Poulton-le-Sands is one of three small villages that combined to create Morecambe, Lancashire, England, the other two being Torrisholme and Bare. A local board of health was established in 1852, which, taking its name from Morecambe Bay, became the borough of Morecambe in 1902.
Skerton
Suburb
Skerton is an area in the north of Lancaster, Lancashire, England, on the other side of the River Lune to the castle. It was formerly a township, but in the late 1800s it was incorporated into Lancaster and the neighbouring townships. Skerton Bridge takes the A6 southwards towards the city centre.
Aldcliffe
Village
Photo: Ian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aldcliffe is a hamlet, and former township and civil parish, now in the parish of Aldcliffe-with-Stodday, south-west of Lancaster, in the Lancaster district, in the county of Lancashire, England. Aldcliffe is situated 2½ miles south of Torrisholme.
Torrisholme
- Type: Suburb with 6,760 residents
- Description: village in Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Morecambe, Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.06842° or 54° 4′ 6″ northLongitude
-2.83294° or 2° 49′ 59″ westPopulation
6,760Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)Open location code
9C6V3598+9ROpenStreetMap ID
node 30691904OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2635633Wikidata ID
Q7827159
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Torrisholme” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Torrisholme”
- French: “Torrisholme”
- Irish: “Torrisholme”
- Polish: “Torrisholme”
- Welsh: “Torrisholme”
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