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Countrystride #62: GRANGE-OVER-SANDS & Hampsfell
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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
Aug 20, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
...in which we take in the salt air at the Victorian seaside resort of Grange-over-Sands with local historian and National Park Rights of Way Officer Nick Thorne. In a wide-ranging conversation covering history, ecology, tourism... and lots of old postcards, we walk the town's mile-long promenade and imagine the refined resort in its heyday; we visit the town's salt-water lido, in which generations of children shivered as they learnt to swim; we consider the history of paths in coppiced Eggerslack Wood, with its water ways and sunken lanes; and we discuss the practicalities and perils of crossing the ever-shifting Sands of Morecambe Bay, before alighting on Hampsfell's summit Hospice, with its breathtaking panorama.
Nick's local history website can be found at https://grangeoversandshistory.weebly.com
Nick's local history website can be found at https://grangeoversandshistory.weebly.com
Released:
Aug 20, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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