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Grange-over-Sands is a town and civil parish located on Morecambe Bay in Cumbria, England. Historically part of Lancashire, the town was created as an urban district in 1894. Since 1974, following local government re-organisation, the town has been administered as part of the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, though it remains part of the County Palatine of Lancashire and Duchy of Lancaster. It had a population of 4,114 at the 2011 Census.Grange Over Sands is 13.1 miles to the south of Kendal, 25 miles to the east of Barrow-in-Furness and 28.1 miles to the west of Lancaster.
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  • 1. Cartmel Priory Cartmel
    Cartmel is a village in Cumbria, England, 2.2 miles north-west of Grange-over-Sands close to the River Eea. The village, once known as Kirkby in Cartmel, is the location of the 12th-century Cartmel Priory. Historically in Lancashire, boundary changes brought it into the newly-created county of Cumbria in 1974. The place-name is first attested in the Histories of Simeon of Durham, where it appears as Ceartmel. It also appears in the Pipe Rolls of 1177. The name means sandbank by rocky ground, from the Old Norse kartr and melr.The village has more recently become known as the home of sticky toffee pudding. Its racecourse hosts popular meetings two or three times a year, traditionally in Whit Week. The ancient parish was traditionally known as the Land of Cartmel – an area quite separate fr...
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