Morecambe Bay fishing boats with the Lake district in the distance
Fishing boats in Morecambe Bay which 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. The rivers Leven, Kent, Keer, Lune and Wyre drain into the Bay. 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. 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"). Morecambe Bay was featured on the television programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of the North.
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Location: Morecambe Bay, Morecambe,Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK
Photo credit: © David Jones / Alamy / Afripics
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