Grange-over-Sands is a community and also civil parish situated on the north side of Morecambe Bay in Cumbria, England. Travelling by road, Grange Over Sands is 13.1 miles (21.1 km) to the south of Kendal, 14.9 miles (24.0 kilometres) to the eastern of Ulverston, 25 miles (40 km) to the eastern of Barrow-in-Furness and 28.1 miles (45.2 kilometres) to the west of Lancaster. Historically part of Lancashire, the community was created as an urban area in 1894. Given that 1974, following local government re-organisation, the town has actually been provided as part of the South Lakeland area of Cumbria, though it continues to be part of the Duchy of Lancaster. It had a population of 4,114 at the 2011 Census.