Essential Information Getting here Places to visit / facilities By Train On the promenade, you’ll find Grange Lido, Regular, fast mainline connections from a derelict Grade II listed feature built in Manchester, London and Scotland to 1932, that has stood empty for many years MORE TO EXPLORE Lancaster Station. From Lancaster you but is now being renovated. Here you can pick up a scenic local train stopping en route closely view the mud flats and sand banks around Morecambe Bay to of the bay through telescopic sights dotted Barrow-in-Furness, and takes you over the along the prom. Kent and Leven Estuaries. There is also a free playground with swings, Grange-over-Sands slides, climbing frames and separate play National Rail Enquiries 08457 484950 areas for toddlers and older children. Trainline www.trainline.com Beyond the lido, there is outdoor gym Traveline 0871 200 2233 ALL-ABILITY ROUTE GUIDE equipment, seasonal tennis, bowls, putting and crazy golf, table tennis, a skate park By Car and a kick-about/basket-ball area. 20 minutes drive from Junction 36 of the M6. Access to the promenade By Bus You can access the promenade via the From Kendal, Cartmel, Ulverston and Barrow underpass at the station, the underpass at on the 530, 532 and X6 services. the Main St car park and over the ramped For timetable www.cumbria.gov.uk/buses bridge from Berners car park. All these locations are clearly signposted and offer Hire an all-terrain disabled parking. mobility scooter More to Explore is a project led by You can now hire a Tramper from the car Morecambe Bay Partnership to open park at Grange Library. This service is free up more of the countryside to more of charge but booking is essential via our people. Their vision is a thriving Bay, rich in website at www.moretoexplore.uk landscape, wildlife and culture connecting and inspiring residents and visitors alike. To find out more about their work, to volunteer or donate, visit www.morecambebay.org.uk Further information - accommodation, food/drink Grange Now - local paper Visit the Lake District www.grangenow.co.uk www.visitlakedistrict.com Bay Tourism Association Grange-over-Sands Website www.baytourism.co.uk www.grange-over-sands.com ROUTES MAPS HIRE A project by: In partnership with: Funding Partner: For information about hire, routes, itineraries and maps visit www.moretoexplore.uk Route Guide Grange-over-Sands: the ‘Lakeland Riviera’ Hire Point Accessible toilets History of the town and promenade Our Trampers (all-terrain Victoria Hall, Main Street. Grange or ‘graunge’ is a French word meaning granary and the monks of nearby mobility scooters) are available Ornamental Gardens Cartmel Priory used to store their grain for hire from Grange Library car by the pond. park. Pre-booking is essential at here, back in the 12th century. Promenade, opposite the lido. www.moretoexplore.uk. Grange-over-Sands grew slowly as a small Delivered in partnership with Pig Lane/Hampsfell Road, fishing village, and during the 18th century The Community Hub at the Vic. near the library. it had occasional shipping. By the 1820s, Disabled parking O Railway Station (rail users only). Grange was described as a ‘beautiful sea- bathing village’, and there were a small Berners car park, off Kents Bank ` number of villas and hotels. Road, with disabled access Refreshments Until the coming of the railway in 1857, the to the prom via a ramped Emma’s Cafe - open all year. main communication route was the roads footbridge. The Prom Tea Room - closed across the sands from Kents Bank to Main Street car park, Windermere during winter months. Arnside and Hest Bank. Road car park, Railway Station car park (rail Other options in the town users only). centre. The Bay Views Parking at the library for those hiring a Tramper The Bay’s tides support important The view from the promenade looks across may be available upon request when booking. populations of wildlife and give rise to rare the salt-marsh, Kent Estuary towards landforms and changing landscapes. Arnside Knott. Beyond is the Lancashire coastline and on clear days Blackpool Tower The River Kent used to flow past the finish The Promenade and accessibility can be seen. The view offers huge every promenade but its course migrated south, 4 km / 2.5 miles 1.25 hours GRADE 1 changing skies depending on the season and away from Grange during the 1990s. The often with flocks of sea birds and starlings. Grange Prom is sufficiently wide, with good sands, with their notorious quicksands, sightlines, to enable easy two-way flow of a became a grass meadow. Sounds and Smells fairly significant volume of pedestrians, cyclists The marshes now provide valuable grazing and scooter users. Grange Promenade is the perfect place for flocks of sheep – salt-marsh reared to watch and listen to the wading birds The paved surface of the promenade is level lamb being a speciality of Lakeland that flock here to feed on the shellfish and and easy to use, with disabled toilets and an restaurants! The mudflats are important shrimps in the estuarine sands. The smell of accessible café en route. feeding grounds for birds such as the fresh sea air is invigorating and during Along the length of this route on Grange oystercatchers, shelduck and curlew. the Victorian period was believed to be of Promenade there are spectacular views over benefit to tuberculosis sufferers. start Morecambe Bay towards Arnside Knott. Summer Suitable for manual wheelchairs, as well as powerchairs and scooters. Redshank bright orange-red legs with a O medium-length bill. The call is a creaking Hampsfell and accessibility whistle teu-it. 5 km / 3.2 miles 2.5 hours GRADE 4 Winter start There is an additional route, heading out of Oystercatcher large, stocky, black and white O Grange that leads up towards Hampsfell wading bird. It has a long, orange-red bill and Hospice. This route follows a back road, Promenade Gardens reddish-pink legs with a loud ‘peep-ing’ call. climbing very steeply and then along a rough The beautiful gardens, running the Knot short-legged, stocky wading bird. In ` track through woods to the edge of open land length of the prom (and screening the winter, It is grey above and white below; in leading to the Hospice, providing spectacular railway line) were created for visitors and summer the chest, belly and face are brick- views of Morecambe Bay. residents to enjoy whilst taking the sea air. red. When flying in a flock they make a low ` The route is rough and offcamber on uneven Today the gardens are maintained by monosyllabic knutt. ground in places and is ONLY SUITABLE for volunteers from ‘The Prom Gardeners’. experienced All Terrain Mobility Scooter users. Much of the exotic vegetation on display All year round (but mainly in Jan/Feb) For more information on route grading, these here and around Grange flourishes in the Curlew Europe’s largest wading bird - long finish routes and others around the Bay please visit relatively mild climate influenced by the legs, curved bill. It makes a whinnying call as www.moretoexplore.uk Gulf Stream. it flies..