Grange-over-Sands is a quiet seaside retreat on the Southern tip of the Cartmel peninsula, between the mountains and the sea, and close to Windermere.
It is on the shores of Morecambe Bay, and from the 13th Century until the 1850’s, the major route from Lancaster was across the sands.
The River Kent used to flow past the town's mile-long promenade but its course migrated south, away from Grange. The sands or mudflats with dangerous quicksands became a grass meadow now grazed by small flocks of sheep. More recently the river has begun to switch its course back across the bay, and it remains to see whether the meadows survive.
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Date: 17/05/2018
Location: Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria
Photographer: Ron Leggat ARPS