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Bare, Morecambe

St Christopher's Church, Bare

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

  1. ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  2. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (3rd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 24. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Bare Hall, Morecambe, Lancashire".