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Morecambe is a seaside town in the City of Lancaster, Lancashire, England. It contains 43 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings . Of these, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
Clock tower formerly part of railway terminus now a freestanding tower [108] [109] 84: Albert Memorial Clock Tower: 43 m (141 ft) 4: Yes: 1869: Freestanding Tower: Clock Tower: United Kingdom: Belfast: Height disputed in sources between 43 m (141 ft) and 34.5 m (113 ft) [110] If the greater height 13th tallest freestanding clock tower [111] 85
Morecambe and the neighbouring village of Heysham are the setting of the Cthulhu Mythos novel The Weird Shadow over Morecambe, published by the writer Edmund Glasby in 2014. [48] The title of the book is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft 's story " The Shadow over Innsmouth ", which is also set in a seaside town.
At around 150 feet (50 m) tall, it dominates the Lancaster skyline and is visible for many miles around, and has views of the surrounding area including Morecambe Bay. The building is in the Edwardian Baroque style and was designed by John Belcher. It has been described as "England's grandest folly" and the "Taj Mahal of the North". [3]
Morecambe Bay is an estuary in north-west England, 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 120 sq mi (310 km 2 ).
The Stone Jetty is a jetty in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It was built by the North Western Railway in 1853 as a wharf and rail terminal for both passenger and cargo transport. [ 1 ] The former station building with adjoining lighthouse stand on the jetty and are Grade II-listed. [ 2 ]
Morecambe Town Hall is a municipal building in Marine Road, Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II listed building. [1] History.