Let’s move to Grange-over-Sands and Cartmel: ‘Ooh, Alan Bennett’

An exotic destination for middle-aged elopersWhat’s going for it? Grange-over-Sands is the kind of spot namechecked in Victoria Wood sketches, Alan Bennett scripts or classic Coronation Street as the epitome of posh, the exotic destination for middle-aged elopers, with its hedonistic cocktail of hushed hotels, vigorous (but not overly so) rambling and restaurants with starched napkins and potted shrimps on the menu. It’s still a most pleasant place, if a little forgotten about. Wheth