Bare, Morecambe
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Bare | |
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Location within Lancashire | |
Population | 4,067 (2011) |
OS grid reference | SD452647 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | MORECAMBE |
Postcode district | LA4 |
Dialling code | 01524 |
Police | Lancashire |
Fire | Lancashire |
Ambulance | North West |
UK Parliament | |
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Bare is a suburb of and electoral ward in Morecambe, within the City of Lancaster district in Lancashire, England. The population of the ward as taken at the Census 2011 was 4,067.[1] Bare has a high street (Princes Crescent), and a railway station connecting it to Morecambe and Lancaster. Its name comes from Anglo-Saxon bearu meaning "grove".[2]
Bare Hall is a Grade II listed building built around 1830 by the Lodge family[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (3rd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 24. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ "Bare Hall, Morecambe, Lancashire".
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