Morecambe Bay at low tide from Hest Bank, looking towards Grange-over-Sands.

Morecambe Bay is a large bay in northwest England, nearly due east of the Isle of Man and 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 310 km². Towns on the bay include Barrow-in-Furness, Ulverston, Grange-Over-Sands, Morecambe, Fleetwood and Heysham. Looking across Morecambe Bay from Hest Bank towards Grange-over-Sands at low tide. ... Looking across Morecambe Bay from Hest Bank towards Grange-over-Sands at low tide. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Crinkle Crags as seen from the adjoining fell of Cold Pike. ... Mudflats in Brewster, Massachusetts extending hundreds of yards offshore at the low tide. ... For other uses, see Sand (disambiguation). ... “km” redirects here. ... Barrow-in-Furness is a town in Cumbria, England. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Grange-over-Sands is a town in Cumbria, England, and in the traditional county of Lancashire. ... , Morecambe is a resort town within the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. ... , Fleetwood is a town within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying at the northwest corner of the Fylde. ... Stone graves overlooking Morecambe Bay, with the mountains of the Lake District in the distance Heysham (pronounced hee-sham) is a small, coastal village near Lancaster in the county of Lancashire in England. ...

The rivers Leven, Kent, Keer, Lune and Wyre drain into the Bay, with their various estuaries making a number of peninsulas within the bay, such as Humphrey Head. The River Leven is a short river in the (administrative) county of Cumbria, falling within the historic county of Lancashire. ... The River Kent is a short river in the county of Cumbria in England. ... The River Keer is a river in Lancashire, England. ... The Lune passing through Lancaster The Lune passing through the gorge between the outlying fells of the Lake District and the Howgill Fells, with the local road, M6 motorway, and West Coast Main Line railway sharing the valley with the river The River Lune is a river of the United... Map sources for the Wyre estuary at grid reference SD340479 This article is about the River Wyre in Lancashire. ... A peninsula in Croatia A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered on three or more sides by water. ...

Much of the land around the bay is reclaimed, forming saltmarshes used in agriculture. Morecambe Bay is also an important wildlife site, with abundant bird life and varied marine habitats, and there is a bird observatory at Walney Island. An Atlantic coastal salt marsh in Connecticut. ... A bird observatory is a centre for the study of bird migration and bird populations. ... Walney Island, otherwise the Isle of Walney is the eighth-largest marine island off the coast of England. ...

The bay is also notorious for its quicksand and fast moving tides (it is said that the tide can come in "as fast as a horse can run"). There have been royally appointed local guides (holding the post of Queen's Guide to the Sands) for crossing the bay for centuries. This difficulty of crossing the bay added to the isolation of the land to its north which, due to the presence of the mountains of the Lake District, could only be reached by crossing these sands or by ferry, until the Furness Railway was built in 1867. This skirts the edge of the bay, crossing the various estuaries. The West Coast Main Line also briefly runs alongside the bay - interestingly, the only place where the London-Glasgow railway runs alongside the coast. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about tides in the Earths oceans. ... The Queens Guide to the Sands is the royally appointed guide to crossing the sands of Morecambe Bay. ... Furness Railway was one of the constituent companies of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the Railways Act 1921. ... Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The WCML running alongside the M1 motorway at Watford Gap in Northamptonshire A Virgin Pendolino and freight train on the WCML The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important intercity railway lines in the United Kingdom, part of the British railway system. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ...

Morecambe Bay was featured on the television programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of the North. Seven Natural Wonders is a television programme that aired on BBC Two from 3 May to 20 June 2005. ...

Bridge proposal

Discussions as to whether to build a road bridge over the bay have been ongoing for decades, particularly in the more isolated north of the bay. The most recent suggestion was of a "green bridge", flanked by wind turbines and using tidal power to mitigate the environmental damage of its construction [1]. The bridge would be twelve miles long and stretch from Heysham to Barrow-in-Furness, at the bay's mouth. Feasibility studies are ongoing, though over two years since this version of the bridge was proposed, little progress has been made. In the 2005 UK General Election, Timothy Bell polled just 1.1% of the votes in the Barrow and Furness constituency for the Build Duddon and Morecambe Bay Bridges Party. Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that exploits the movement of water caused by tidal currents or the rise and fall in sea levels due to the tides. ... Stone graves overlooking Morecambe Bay, with the mountains of the Lake District in the distance Heysham (pronounced hee-sham) is a small, coastal village near Lancaster in the county of Lancashire in England. ... Barrow-in-Furness is a town in Cumbria, England. ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ... Sir Timothy Bell, Baron Bell (b. ... Barrow and Furness is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ...

In 1974 natural gas was discovered offshore, and development of the Morecambe Bay gas field began several years later. A lease has been granted for developing two wind turbine sites in the bay, one at Walney Island and the other at Cleveleys. Together these will have around 50 turbines. For other uses, see Natural gas (disambiguation). ... This article is about the machine for converting the kinetic energy in the wind into mechanical energy. ... Map sources for Cleveleys at grid reference SD317433 Cleveleys (with its neighbouring town of Thornton, collectively known as Thornton-Cleveleys) is a town on the Fylde Coast of Lancashire, England, about 4 miles north of Blackpool and 2 miles south of Fleetwood. ...

2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster

Main article: 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster

The bay has rich cockle beds, which have been fished by locals for generations. On the night of 5 February 2004, at least 21 Chinese immigrant cockle pickers drowned after being cut off by the tides. This tragedy led some commentators to suggest that the cockle beds should be closed until improved safety measures could be introduced. The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster occurred on the evening of the 5 February 2004 in Lancashire, England with at least 21 cockle pickers drowned by incoming tides in Morecambe Bay. ... Genera Acanthocardia Americardia Cardium Cerastoderma Clinocardium Corculum Ctenocardia Dinocardium Discors Fragum Fulvia Laevicardium Lophocardiium Lyrocardium Lunulicardia Microcardium Nemocardium Papyridea Parvicardium Plagiocardium Ringicardium Trachycardium Trigoniocardia Serripes Cockle is the common name for bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae. ... is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

2006 Morecambe Bay helicopter crash

Main article: 2006 Morecambe Bay helicopter crash

A helicopter crash in Morecambe Bay killed passengers and crew traveling to a nearby off-shore gas platform.It is now Known that the Triads are behind This The 2006 Morecambe Bay Helicopter Crash was a fatal air incident that occurred on December 27, 2006 at approximately 18:40 GMT[1], whilst transporting replacement crew between the Millom and Morecambe gas platforms situated approximately 24 miles from the shoreline of Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, England. ...

Further Reading

• A brief article on the Morecambe Bay tidal crossing: appeared in 2005: Cawley, David [2005]: Time & Tide: Morecambe Bay, hidden europe magazine, 4 (Sept 2005), pp. 40-44.

External links

• Morecambe Bay partnership - local conservation charity
• Walney bird observatory

Coordinates: 54°07′N, 3°00′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...