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Grange-over-Sands is a town in Cumbria, England, and in the traditional county of Lancashire. The town developed from a small fishing village in the Victorian era with the arrival of the railway as it became a popular seaside resort, lying on Morecambe Bay, across the sands from Morecambe itself. The River Kent used to flow past the town's mile-long Promenade, but more recently the river has switched its course to the Arnside side of the estuary, allowing nature to develop the "sands" (mudflats, in truth, with dangerous quicksands at uncertain points) into a spartina-grass meadow now frequently grazed over by small flocks of sheep. Above the town is Hampsfield Fell with a small hut (or 'hospice') at its shallow peak.
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