MORECAMBE

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MORECAMBE , a municipal

borough

BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

, watering-place and seaport in the

Lancaster

LANCASTER
LANCASTER,
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF
LANCASTER, JOHN OF GAUNT
LANCASTER, JOSEPH (1778-1838)
LANCASTER, SIR JAMES (f1. 1591—1618)
THOMAS
_EARL_OF_c_127.html">LANCASTER,
THOMAS
, EARL OF (c. 1277-1322)

parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, on Morecambe Bay, 236 M. N.W. by N. from London by the London & North-Western railway; served also by the Midland railway. Pop. (19o1), 11,798. A fine

promenade

PROMENADE

extends along the shore; there are a quay and a pier, a winter

garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

, and all the appointments of a seaside resort. The Midland railway is the harbour authority. The town was incorporated in 1902, and the

corporation

CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a
body
- BODY
, corpus, corporis)

consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 16 councillors. The former alternative name was Poulton-le-Sands. Area, 18ot acres.

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