Grange-over-Sands
Grange-over-Sands is also called the "Lakeland Riviera", since the influence of the Gulf Stream gives it an exceptionally mild climate. It was historically in Lancashire, but re-assigned to Cumbria in 1974.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Brian Clift, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Town with 4,790 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Grange” and “Grange-Over-Sands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grange-over-Sands railway station and Council Offices Victoria Hall Including Attached Offices And Restaurant.
Grange-over-Sands railway station
Railway station
Photo: Our Phellap, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grange-over-Sands is a railway station on the Furness Line, which runs between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster. The station, situated 15+1⁄2 miles north-west of Lancaster, serves the town of Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria.
Council Offices Victoria Hall Including Attached Offices And Restaurant
Town hall
Photo: AlixChaytor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Council Offices Victoria Hall Including Attached Offices And Restaurant is a town hall.
St Paul Parish Church, Grange-over-Sands
Church
Photo: Brian Clift, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Paul's Church is in Crown Hill, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kents Bank and Cartmel.
Kents Bank
Hamlet
Photo: Whatlep, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kents Bank is a small village in Cumbria, England, so named for its proximity to the River Kent estuary. Part of the historic County Palatine of Lancashire, it is located 2 miles south-west of Grange-over-Sands.
Cartmel
Village
Photo: Strider52, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cartmel is a village in Furness (traditionally "Lancashire-over-the-Sands", England, 2+1⁄4 miles northwest of Grange-over-Sands close to the River Eea.
Lindale
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lindale - traditionally Lindale in Cartmel - is a village in the south of Cumbria. It lies on the north-eastern side of Morecambe Bay, England. It was part of Lancashire from 1182 to 1974.
Grange-over-Sands
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.1931° or 54° 11′ 35″ northLongitude
-2.9095° or 2° 54′ 34″ westPopulation
4,790Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 6962506OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Grange-over-Sands” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Basque: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Catalan: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Cebuano: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Cebuano: “Grange-Over-Sands”
- Chinese: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Chinese: “格兰奇奥弗金沙”
- Chinese: “格蘭奇奧弗金沙”
- Chinese: “沙地农庄”
- Chinese: “沙滩旁格兰奇”
- Chinese: “沙灘旁格蘭奇”
- Dutch: “Grange-over-Sands”
- French: “Grange-over-Sands”
- German: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Hebrew: “גריינג‘ אובר סנדס”
- Irish: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Italian: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Japanese: “グランジ＝オーヴァー＝サンズ”
- Japanese: “グランジ＝オーバー＝サンズ”
- Korean: “그레인지오버샌즈”
- Ladin: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Norwegian: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Persian: “گرانگ-آور-سندز”
- Polish: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Romanian: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Russian: “Грейндж-овер-Сандс”
- South Azerbaijani: “قرانق-آور-سندز”
- Spanish: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Swedish: “Grange-over-Sands (ort i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Swedish: “Grange-Over-Sands”
- Turkish: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Urdu: “گرینج اوور سینڈز”
- Volapük: “Grange-over-Sands”
- Welsh: “Grange-over-Sands”
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