Grange-over-Sands is a town and
civil parish on
Morecambe Bay – with a wide
tidal range, hence the "sands" name – roughly midway between
Barrow-in-Furness and
Kendal in
Cumbria, England. Grange-over-Sands was created as an urban district in 1894 and lies
historically within
Lancashire. In 1974 Cumbria was created under Local Government re-organisation which absorbed the area referred to as "Lancashire North of the Sands" or North Lonsdale. Grange is now in South Lakeland District. The town remains part of the
County Palatine of Lancashire and is part of the
Duchy of Lancaster. It has a population of 4,042, increasing to 4,114 at the 2011 Census.