Morecambe ( ) is a
seaside town
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and
civil parish
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in the
City of Lancaster
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district in
Lancashire
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, England. It is in
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay is a large estuary in northwest England, just to the south of the Lake District National Park. It is the largest expanse of intertidal mudflats and sand in the United Kingdom, covering a total area of . In 1974, the second larges ...
on the
Irish Sea
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.
Name
The first use of the name was by
John Whitaker in his ''History of Manchester'' (1771), when he refers to the "æstury of Moricambe". It next appears four years later in ''Antiquities of Furness'', where the bay is described as "the
Bay of Morecambe".
That name is derived from the Roman name ''Moriancabris Æsturis'' shown on maps prepared for them by ''Claudius Ptolemœus'' (
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importanc ...
) from his original Greek maps. At this distance in time it is impossible to say if the name was originally derived from an earlier language (e.g.
Celtic language
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) or from Greek. The
Latin
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version describes the fourth inlet north from
Wales
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on the west coast of
England
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as Moriancabris Æsturis. Translated, this gives a more accurate description than the present name of
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay is a large estuary in northwest England, just to the south of the Lake District National Park. It is the largest expanse of intertidal mudflats and sand in the United Kingdom, covering a total area of . In 1974, the second larges ...
as the Latin refers to multiple estuaries on a curved sea, not a bay, as then the word sinus or gulf would have been used.
The name appeared in March 1862 on a steam locomotive built for the
South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
The South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway (SD&LUR) built a railway line linking the Stockton & Darlington Railway near Bishop Auckland with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (the West Coast Main Line) at Tebay, via Barnard Castle, Stainmore ...
, which could indicate it was already in unofficial use for the area.
It was not until 1889 that the necessary legislation was passed to officially name the area Morecambe, comprising the hamlets of
Poulton,
Bare and
Torrisholme
Torrisholme is a suburb of Morecambe, Lancashire, on the North West coast of England. In the 2001 census, the Torrisholme Ward had a population of 6,758 living in 3,118 households, decreasing marginally to 6,755 at the 2011 Census.
Torrisholme ...
(a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
for the purposes of the
Census of 1841 but shown as separate townships in the previous Census of 1831). In 1894, the
Urban District Council
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was formed, thus freeing Morecambe completely from its governance by the
Borough
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History
In the Middle Ag ...
of Lancaster until 1974 when Lancaster again took charge.
Before the creation of Morecambe, Poulton acquired two suffixes, "le Sands" and briefly "by Sands". The reason for these additions stems from the dearth of names of townships in earlier times with the same name recurring over again. In the days before free movement of people, this was not so important. As travel became easier through first the turnpikes and later the railways, it became necessary to differentiate between the various towns with the same name, hence the additions.
On 3 August 1928, the name changed again when the
Corporation
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of Morecambe amalgamated with
Heysham
Heysham ( ) is a coastal town in Lancashire, England, overlooking Morecambe Bay. It is a Heysham Port, ferry port, with services to the Isle of Man and Ireland, and the site of two Heysham nuclear power station, nuclear power stations.
Demogra ...
Urban District Council to form the
Municipal Borough of Morecambe and Heysham
Morecambe and Heysham was a municipal borough in Lancashire, England. It was formed in 1928 by the merging of Morecambe Municipal Borough and Heysham Urban District, and abolished in 1974 when it was absorbed into the City of Lancaster
The ...
.
History
In 1846, the
Morecambe Harbour and Railway
Morecambe ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the City of Lancaster district in Lancashire, England. It is in Morecambe Bay on the Irish Sea.
Name
The first use of the name was by John Whitaker in his ''History of Manchester'' (1771), w ...
Company was formed to build a harbour on Morecambe Bay, close to the fishing village of
Poulton-le-Sands
Poulton-le-Sands is one of three small villages that combined to create Morecambe, Lancashire, England, the other two being Torrisholme and Bare, Morecambe, Bare. A local board of health was established in 1852, which, taking its name from Morec ...
, and a connecting railway. By 1850, the railway linked to
Skipton
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,
Keighley
Keighley ( ) is a market town and a civil parish
in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford.
Keighley is north-west of Bradford city centre, north-west of Bi ...
and
Bradford
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in the
West Riding of Yorkshire
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, and a settlement began to grow around the harbour and railway to service the port and as a seaside resort. The settlement expanded to absorb Poulton and the villages of
Bare and
Torrisholme
Torrisholme is a suburb of Morecambe, Lancashire, on the North West coast of England. In the 2001 census, the Torrisholme Ward had a population of 6,758 living in 3,118 households, decreasing marginally to 6,755 at the 2011 Census.
Torrisholme ...
. The settlement started to be referred to as "Morecambe", possibly after the harbour and railway. In 1889, the new name was officially adopted.
Morecambe was a thriving seaside resort in the mid-20th century. It was home to the largest Pontins resort in the country. Pontins closed in 1993. While the resort of
Blackpool
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attracted holiday-makers predominantly from the Lancashire mill towns, Morecambe had more visitors from
Yorkshire
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(due to its
railway connection) and
Scotland
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. Mill workers from Bradford and further afield in West Yorkshire would holiday at Morecambe, with some retiring there. This gave Morecambe the nickname "Bradford on Sea". Between 1956 and 1989, it was the home of the
Miss Great Britain
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beauty contest
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.
Morecambe suffered a decades-long decline after a series of incidents that damaged tourism and the local economy.
[Alan Cowell]
Postcard From Ailing British Coasts: Wish You Were Here
''The New York Times'', 12 April 2007. Two
pier
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A pier is a raised structure that rises above a body of ...
s were lost: West End Pier was partly washed away in a storm in November 1977, and the remnants were demolished in 1978;
Central Pier, damaged by fire in 1933, was removed in 1992. In 1994, The World of
Crinkley Bottom attraction in Happy Mount Park closed only thirteen weeks after opening. The ensuing
Blobbygate scandal, a financial disaster after projected visitor numbers did not materialise, led to a legal battle between
Lancaster City Council
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and TV star
Noel Edmonds
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, costing North Lancs taxpayers £2.6 million. The closures of Bubbles, Morecambe's swimming pool, and the
Frontierland
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fairground soon followed.
Morecambe was selected by the
RNLI
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as the location for its first active life-saving hovercraft. (Griffon 470SAR) H-002 "The Hurley Flyer", which became operational on 23 December 2002, was housed in a temporary garage next to the Yacht Club until a permanent building could be designed and built. Work on the latter began in 2008, and it officially opened on 12 June 2010.
On 5 February 2004, there was a major loss of life in Morecambe Bay when at least 21
Chinese immigrant shellfish harvesters were drowned after they became trapped by the incoming tide.
In December 2017 a local
general practitioner and community health activist claimed that children in Morecambe were suffering from malnourishment and implied that cases of
rickets
Rickets is a condition that results in weak or soft bones in children, and is caused by either dietary deficiency or genetic causes. Symptoms include bowed legs, stunted growth, bone pain, large forehead, and trouble sleeping. Complications may ...
had been observed as a consequence.
The Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group subsequently sought to correct the GP's claims and clarified the aetiology of vitamin D deficiency in the local population, explaining "rickets is a very rare condition and has multiple causes".
The "Morecambe Budget"
Enoch Powell
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made a speech in Morecambe on 11 October 1968 on the economy, setting out alternative, radical free-market policies that would later be called the Morecambe Budget. Powell used the financial year 1968–69 to show how income tax could be halved from 8s 3d to 4s 3d in the pound (basic rate cut from 41% to 21%) and how capital gains tax and
Selective Employment Tax
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SET was intended to subsidise manufacturing industry from the proceeds of the services ind ...
could be abolished without reducing expenditure on defence or the social services. These tax cuts required a saving of £2,855 million, and this would be funded by eradicating losses in the nationalised industries and denationalising the profit-making state concerns; ending all housing subsidies except for those who could not afford their own housing; ending all foreign aid; ending all grants and subsidies in agriculture; ending all assistance to development areas; ending all investment grants; abolishing the
National Economic Development Council
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; and abolishing the Prices and Incomes Board The cuts in taxation would also allow the state to borrow from the public to spend on capital projects such as hospitals and roads and on the firm and humane treatment of criminals.
Governance
![Morecambe Town Hall](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Morecambe_Town_Hall.jpg)
The town is in the
Morecambe and Lunesdale
Morecambe and Lunesdale is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by David Morris, a Conservative.
Constituency profile
Since 1979 the constituency has been a bellwether and includes the seas ...
parliamentary constituency; the current
Member of parliament
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is
David Morris.
Before
Brexit
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, it was in the
North West England
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European Parliamentary Constituency.
Morecambe is governed by three tiers of Local Government:
* Morecambe Town Council,
*
Lancaster City Council (District),
*
Lancashire County Council
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Prior to the 2009 La ...
.
Economy
![Circles Morecambe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Circles_Morecambe.JPG)
Morecambe's main central shopping area incorporates two markets—the Festival Market and the Morecambe Sunday Market—and the Reel Cinema complex.
Tourism
![Beach of Morecambe 05](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Beach_of_Morecambe_05.jpg)
Morecambe Hotel and Tourism Association, which had forty members, has merged with the Bay Tourism Association. At a full meeting of the Morecambe Hotel and Tourism Association on Monday 8 March 2010, it was unanimously resolved that the MHTA would join with Bay Tourism to become one association under the name of the Bay Tourism Association and the MHTA would cease to operate as an association. The BTA works closely with Lancaster Chamber and organises joint promotional ventures with other tourism associations in the region.
Recent tourism initiatives have made Morecambe a centre for
bird watchers
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with the Tern Project enhancing the town's heritage linked to the extensive natural landscape of Morecambe Bay and its diverse wildlife.
Eden Project North
In 2018, the Eden Project revealed its design for the Eden Project North on the seafront in Morecambe. There will be biodomes shaped like mussels and a focus on the marine environment.
[ ][ ] Grimshaw are the architects for the £80 million project, which is a partnership with the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership,
Lancaster University
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, Lancashire County Council and Lancaster City Council.
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]
Education
Morecambe is served by a number of primary, secondary and tertiary educational establishments. These include Morecambe Bay Academy
Morecambe Bay Academy is a Mixed-sex education, coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It was founded as Morecambe Grammar School in 1919, moving to its current site on Dallam Avenue in 1938 on ...
, Bay Leadership Academy and Lancaster and Morecambe College
Lancaster and Morecambe College is a further education College situated on Torrisholme Road, between Lancaster and Morecambe, Lancashire, England. The college has been providing the local area with access to further and higher education since ...
.
Culture
Performing arts
Morecambe has two large live-music venues: the Platform and More Music. The Platform is a converted Victorian-styled building which used to be the old railway station. It also houses the Morecambe Tourist Information Centre
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Types of visitor center
A visi ...
. Morecambe has a number of bands playing in the town's pubs and music venues.
Morecambe is home to community music charity More Music. More Music was established in 1993 and is based in the Hothouse. The Hothouse is now a venue for live gigs.
Morecambe and Alan Bennett
The Yorkshire
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playwright
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Etymology
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and author
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"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
Alan Bennett
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has enjoyed a long association with Morecambe and has often referred to the town in his work and writing. One of his early TV plays, ''Sunset Across the Bay'' (1975), is about a couple from Leeds
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who retire to Morecambe, leaving their old home with the words "Bye bye, mucky Leeds!" He based the play on memories of the many holiday
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s he spent in Morecambe with his parents. In his essay
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"Written on the Body", collected in ''Untold Stories'' (2005), he even suggests that his association with the town is pre-natal: " had been in a boarding house that I was conceived, sometime over the August Bank Holiday
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of 1933 at Morecambe or Filey
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." In the same collection, Bennett pays tribute to the Morecambe-born actress Thora Hird
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in the essays ''Last of the Sun'', about the final play he wrote for her, and "Thora Hird 1911–2003", a memoir of the work they had done together since the 1960s. Earlier in the book, he discusses his maternal aunt Kathleen, who married in Morecambe and lived there until her death in 1974.
Art
Morecambe was the birthplace of the artist William Woodhouse (1857–1939), who lived all his life in the town and is buried with his wife and daughter at St. Peter's Church in the village of Heysham
Heysham ( ) is a coastal town in Lancashire, England, overlooking Morecambe Bay. It is a Heysham Port, ferry port, with services to the Isle of Man and Ireland, and the site of two Heysham nuclear power station, nuclear power stations.
Demogra ...
, a little to the south of Morecambe.
Youth and Community
Stanley's Youth and Community Centre is based on Stanley Road in the West End of Morecambe. It offers the opportunity for young people aged 8–18 to play music, cook or just use the facilities to catch up with friends. There are also community sessions including community meal, women's group and 'Get Connected' information service.
The Exchange, which was set up in 2015 and is based on West Street in the West End of Morecambe, is a Community Arts CIC
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* Cadet Instructors Cadre, a part of the Canadian Armed Forces
* Canadian Infantry Corps, renamed in 1947 to Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
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* Canadian Islamic Congress
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, offering free creative workshops to local residents. Promoting creativity as a means of well-being, it serves as a non-profit welcome space for all ages and abilities. In addition to workshops, The Exchange sells the artwork of local residents and hosts events such as the popular Soup Night.
Cuisine
Morecambe Bay potted shrimp
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s are a famous local delicacy.
Landmarks
One of Morecambe's most famous landmarks is a statue
A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to life-size; a sculpture t ...
commemorating one of its most famous sons, Eric Morecambe
John Eric Bartholomew, (14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's de ...
. It was created by sculptor Graham Ibbeson
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Biography
Ibbeson was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and from 1972 to 1 ...
.
One of Morecambe's landmark buildings is the partially renovated Victoria Pavilion or Morecambe Winter Gardens
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. This was once a venue for swimming baths, a grand theatre, a restaurant and a ballroom.
Morecambe's current library opened in 1967; it was designed by the office of the architect Roger Booth. It replaced the Victoria Street library, which opened in 1928. There had been earlier proposals to build a library in Morecambe with Carnegie funding, but arguments about the rates involved stalled the project. The library is mentioned by Pevsner Pevsner or Pevzner is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Aihud Pevsner (1925–2018), American physicist
* Antoine Pevsner (1886–1962), Russian sculptor, brother of Naum Gabo
* David Pevsner, American actor, singer, dan ...
and is one of the few noteworthy buildings, other than churches, that are not connected to the seaside trade. The building is formed by hexagons, with a hyperbolic parabolic roof, creating a distinctive skyline and interior.
Morecambe once boasted two fairgrounds: a small one to the north of the railway station, which closed down in the 1980s, and a larger one to the south of the station, which ultimately became Frontierland
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and closed in 1999. The last remaining landmark on the site was the Polo Tower, left standing only because of the contract for the phone mast on top. This was demolished mid 2017.
In July 2008, the local council ordered a clean-up of the Polo Tower, and scaffolding was erected around the structure to carry out a survey. It was demolished in sections, in July 2017.
Near the promenade is the Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial
The Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial stands on the Promenade at Morecambe, Lancashire, England.[world war
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s and the Korean War
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.[Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial.](_blank)
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In March 2019 a Time and Tide Bell
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designed by Marcus Vergette
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Early life and education
Vergette was born in Carbondale, Illinois. He studied at ...
was installed beside the Stone Jetty
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, as part of a national public art project.
Midland Hotel
The Midland Hotel is an art deco
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hotel on the seafront. It contains interior design and art pieces by artist Eric Gill
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. In 2009 it underwent a £7m restoration, headed by Manchester
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company Urban Splash
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. The hotel re-opened for business in June 2008.
In March 2011 Urban Splash
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sold the freehold
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*Parson's freehold, where a Church of England rector or vicar of holds title to benefice p ...
of the building to Lancashire-based 'The Lancaster Foundation'.
Media
Local weekly newspapers include ''The Visitor'' published on Tuesdays and the ''Morecambe Guardian'', a local edition of the ''Lancaster Guardian'' published on Fridays.
A monthly publication entitled ''Local Choice'' is delivered by Royal Mail to every household in the district.
Sport
Football
Morecambe F.C.
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Nicknamed the "Shrimps" due to the coastal town's local specialit ...
(known as 'the Shrimps') are the leading local football club and on 20 May 2007 won the Conference National
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playoffs to earn promotion to the Football League
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for the first time in their history. As of 2021–22, they play in League One
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. They had a successful first season in the Football League, surprising a few teams, and in the 2009–10 season they reached the play-offs, only to lose 7–2, on aggregate, to eventual winners Dagenham & Redbridge
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.
At the end of the 2009–10 season the team moved from its Christie Park ground to a brand new home, the Globe Arena
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. The old ground was demolished to make way for a Sainsbury's
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supermarket.
On 31 May 2021, Morecambe won the League Two play-off Final
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at Wembley, beating Newport County 1-0 after extra time to win promotion to League One for the first time in their history.
Rugby league
When the rugby football
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schism
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occurred in 1895, the now defunct Morecambe RFC
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The club played semi-professional rugby league for a total of 8 sea ...
joined the Northern Rugby Football Union (now Rugby Football League
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) in its second season. Morecambe played for eight of the ten seasons from the 1896–97 season through to the end of 1905–06
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season. Morecambe finished 14th of 14 in its first three seasons of the Lancashire Senior Competition, withdrew for the 1899–1900 and 1900–01 seasons, finished 11th of 13 in the Lancashire Senior Competition, then finished 17th of 18, 16th of 17, 13th of 14 in Division-2, and finally 30th of 31 in the recombined league, after which Morecambe withdrew from the Northern Rugby Football Union.
The town still hosts a rugby league
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team, with Heysham Atoms playing from their Trimpell Sports and Social Club base. The Atoms finished joint top of division three in the North West Counties in 2012.
Boxing
Morecambe has a Commonwealth Featherweight Champion, Isaac Lowe
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, who beat Marco McCullough
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in the 8th round with in one minute and 56 seconds on the Frampton Vs Quigg Under-card World Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury
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lives nearby and is often seen in and around Morecambe.
Running
A 5 km parkrun
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event takes place every Saturday morning on the Promenade. The first event was held in April 2019.
Transport
Rail
Morecambe station has a regular rail service from , with some trains running direct from and . Trains also run to Heysham
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, where they connect with the ferry
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service to the Isle of Man
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. There is another railway station at Bare Lane, serving the suburb of Bare. Services are operated by Northern
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.
The present-day Morecambe station opened in 1994, replacing an older station once known as , built by the Midland Railway
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on its North Western Line from Skipton
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in Yorkshire. There was also a station called , built by the rival London & North Western Railway
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, which closed in 1963.
Bus
Bus services in the area are operated mainly by Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire
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& other local companies. Direct services link the town with Windermere
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and Bowness-on-Windermere
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via Carnforth
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, Milnthorpe
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and Kendal
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(755), Lancaster with connections to Keswick via Carnforth
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, Milnthorpe
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, Kendal
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, Windermere
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, Ambleside
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and Grasmere ( 555), Carnforth
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(5, 55, 755), and, all via Garstang
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In 2011, the parish had a total resident population of 4,268 ...
, Preston (40/41), Blackpool (42). Regular services up to every 15 minutes (numbers 41/100) operate along the promenade to Heysham and to Lancaster University
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, a bus route also runs from the bus station via Heysham
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Demogra ...
and then fast to Lancaster (number 2X), while service 1 and 1A operate up to every 10 minutes from Euston Road to both Heysham and Lancaster University. Services 6 and 6A operate via Westgate (where most caravan holiday parks are) to the Asda
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supermarket and Salt Ayre Leisure Centre. Service 5 operates to Overton and Carnforth
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. Most services (2X/4/6/6A/40/41/42/100/555/755) operate using Low Floor Easy Access Vehicles suitable for wheelchair users and prams/pushchairs.
Morecambe in popular culture
* Morecambe and the neighbouring village of Heysham
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are the setting of the Cthulhu Mythos
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novel ''The Weird Shadow over Morecambe'', published by the writer Edmund Glasby in 2014. The title of the book is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Shadow over Innsmouth
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its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared ...
", which is also set in a seaside town.
* Morecambe was mentioned in an episode of the prison-set television comedy ''Porridge
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'' first broadcast in 1973: "... Fletchers's old woman said she wasn't returning, cos she was going to live with that Maltese ponce in Morecambe.".
* The 1960 film ''The Entertainer An entertainer is a person who entertains (singer, actor, comedian, etc.)
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* "The Entertainer" (rag), a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin
*"The Entertainer", rearrangement of the Joplin rag by ...
'', starring Laurence Olivier
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and Joan Plowright
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, was filmed on location in the town. Morecambe-born actress Thora Hird
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co-starred.
* ''Sunset across the Bay'' is a play by Alan Bennett
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written in 1975 for the BBC Play for Today strand, set and filmed in Morecambe.
* Morecambe is extensively written about in Bill Bryson
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's "Notes From A Small Island". (1995).
* The ITV series, '' The Bay'', is set and filmed in Morecambe. Series 1 was first aired in March 2019 and Series 2 was first aired in January 2021. Series 3, filmed in and around Morecambe, was first aired in January 2022.
*Morecambe is the setting for the first half of Sarah Hall's book, The Electric Michelangelo.
* Morecambe features in ''The Acoustics of Morecambe Bay'', a music theatre piece by Peter McGarr
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which evokes the sound contrast between bay and town.
Notable people
''See ''
*Emma Atkins
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Atkins grew up in the village of Silverdale, Lancashire, and then went to study at the Unive ...
- actress
*Dave Chisnall
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Professional darts player lives in Morecambe.
*Tyson Fury
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- boxer (World Heavyweight Champion 2015–16, 2020-) lives in Morecambe.
*Paul Hayes
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As a player he was a forward who made more than 500 appearan ...
- antiques expert, TV personality
*Wayne Hemingway
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- designer, founder of Red or Dead and Northern Soul DJ
*Graham Hicks
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- strongman
*Dame Thora Hird
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- actress
*Isaac Lowe
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- Commonwealth boxing champion
* John McGuinness - motorcycle racer
*Albert Modley
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Biography
He was born in Liverpool, but moved to Ilkley in Yorkshire with his family as a child. His father, known as 'Professor Modley ...
- Yorkshire comedian
*Eric Morecambe
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OBE - comedian, who took his stage name from the town's name
*Radford family
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- UK's largest family, consisting of Sue and Noel Radford, who as of June 2022 have 22 children and 12 grandchildren
*Peter J. Ratcliffe
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- Nobel prize-winning biologist
Climate
See also
*Listed buildings in Morecambe
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External links
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