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Grange over Sands, Lancashire

Historical Description

Grange-over-Sands, a village and an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1884 from Cartmel parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the Winster estuary, overlooking Morecambe Bay, 2 miles ESE of Cartmel, is in much local repute as a watering-place, and has a station on the Fnmess railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Population of ecclesiastical parish, 1494. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £290 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Carlisle. The church was built in 1853, and, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and bell turret. There are Wesleyan and Roman Catholic chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: