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Extract from the Grange-over-Sands Travel Guides:
Before the coming of the railways, the main route to the Lake District was the "road across the sands" from near Lancaster to
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, travellers being led by monks from Cartmel Priory, then from the sixteenth century by a royally appointed guide. The tradition continues today with one guide left, who leads the way around the slip sands and hidden channels which claimed so many lives between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. The eight-mile walk takes the best part of a day and departures are usually every other week between May and October; ask at the Grange tourist office for further details.
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