- The ultimate insider's guide to Lancaster and Morecambe - Features
interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides -
Part of the international 111 Places series with over 650 titles and 3.8
million copies in print worldwide - Appeals to both the local market
(more than 188,000 people call Lancaster and Morecambe home) and the
tourist market (more than 14 million people visit Lancaster and
Morecambe every year!) - Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color
photographs - New and updated edition Lancaster and Morecambe are like
chalk and Lancashire cheese. So near, yet so far apart in what they
offer. Morecambe, the traditional seaside resort, its 'Bring me
Sunshine' favorite son Eric Morecambe and Victoria Wood's 'two soups'
cafe. Plus, its awesome 1930's Art Deco Midland Hotel, haunt of Coco
Chanel and Laurence Olivier. Lancaster, with its Roman remains, its
impregnable 'John O'Gaunt' castle and characterful Georgian buildings,
built in part from slave-trade profits. Notorious Lancaster, known as
the 'Hanging Town' for its use of the noose, with its fearsome castle
cells that held Quaker maker George Fox. Leave the crowds behind and
embrace the true character of this story-filled region, one special
place at a time.
