Morecambe Bay stretches from Walney Island around the coast to Fleetwood.  It includes the estuaries of the Leven, Kent, Lune and Wyre, rural coastal lands, and settlements of Barrow-in-Furness, Ulverston, Grange-over-Sands, Arnside, Silverdale, Morecambe, Heysham, Lancaster, Knott End and Fleetwood. 

The Bay is an area of 195 square miles and at extreme low tides 120 square miles are exposed as a sandy desert. It is the largest continuous intertidal area in Britain. It has provided a living for the locals for many years; with shrimps, mussels, cockles, flounder, whitebait and other types of fish all harvested around the shallow margins of Morecambe Bay. Salmon and sea trout have been eagerly fished in the estuaries and rivers. This rich source of food tempted the villagers around the coast to exploit this resource in a variety of ways - not just by boat. Fish traps, hand nets, horses and carts, forks, rakes and baskets were the earliest methods and widespread boat owning came later.

Zanka McMillian
Westleigh Hotel
9 Marine Road West
Morecambe
Lancashire
LA3 1BS

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