Hotels in Morecambe

Hotels in Morecambe

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Morecambe is a resort town within the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. It faces into Morecambe Bay.

Morecambe and nearby village Heysham.

In 1889 the villages of Bare, Poulton-le-Sands and Torrisholme collectively became known as Morecambe, and those areas of Morecambe are still known by their original names.

Morecambe has had a proud history as a thriving seaside resort in the mid-twentieth century. Whilst Blackpool attracted holiday-makers predominantly from the Lancashire mill towns, Morecambe had more visitors from Yorkshire and Scotland. Between 1956 and 1989 it was the home of the Miss Great Britain beauty contest. And was regarded one of the best seaside destinations in the UK.

However, Morecambe has suffered a decline in recent years. It once had two piers, but both are now gone: Central Pier was struck by fire and West End Pier was washed away in a storm. In 1994, The World of Crinkley Bottom attraction in Happy Mount Park closed only 13 weeks after its opening. The ensuing 'Blobbygate' scandal led to a legal battle between Lancaster City Council and TV star Noel Edmonds. The closures of Bubbles, Morecambe's indoor waterworld, and Frontierland, its Pleasure Beach, soon followed.

One of Morecambe's most famous landmarks is a statue commemorating one of its most famous sons, Eric Morecambe. It was created by sculptor Graham Ibbeson.

Morecambe is home to the Midland Hotel, an important art deco luxury hotel which still contains pieces by luminaries such as Eric Gill. It has undergone a £7 m restoration, headed by Manchester company Urban Splash. The company has restored the hotel to its former glory and opened it for business in June 2008. It is to include new additions such an outdoor swimming pool as shown in the building's new design.

Another famous landmark is the partially renovated Victoria Pavilion, otherwise popularly known as Morecambe Winter Gardens. This was once a venue for swimming baths, grand theatre, restaurant and ballroom and even became a training camp at various times in its life.

Morecambe Library was opened in 1967, and was designed by the office of the county architect, Roger Booth. It replaced the library on Victoria Street 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; instead, one of the Aldermen spent his money on building the Clock Tower on the seafront. The library is mentioned by Pevsner, and is one of the few buildings not connected to the seaside trade to get a mention apart from churches. The building is formed by hexagons, with a hyperbolic parabolic roof, creating a distinctive skyline and *interior.

Morecambe Football Club is an English football club based in Morecambe, Lancashire.

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.

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.

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.

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