Slyne-with-Hest

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>Hest Bank (<a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Slyne-with-Hest¶ms=54_05_N_2_48_W_region:GB_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki&title=Hest+Bank">54°05′N 2°48′W / 54.083°N 2.800°W / 54.083; -2.800 (Hest Bank)</a>
) is a village in north-western <a href="/facts/Lancashire/XmzHoIsl">Lancashire</a>, England, the boundaries of which include the coastline, from a western shoreline of salt-flats that adjoin the northern extremities of <a href="/facts/Morecambe/XcyK1fuC">Morecambe</a>'s <a href="/facts/Victorian_era/HQxGp7wh">Victorian era</a> <a href="/facts/Promenade/Rztrbsfg">Promenade</a>, to a less clearly defined boundary in the east with the village of Slyne, which dates from <a href="/facts/Anglo-Saxon_England/V25yYLrM">Anglo-Saxon</a> times.
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<h2 id="notable-buildings-and-roads">Notable buildings and roads</h2>
<p>Hest Bank's best-known building, 'The Hest Bank Hotel' (previously named the Sands Inn), is itself hundreds of years old, and once served as a coaching station for traffic crossing the sands of what is now called <a href="/facts/Morecambe_Bay/J08lncIF">Morecambe Bay</a>.  <a href="/facts/Ordnance_Survey/syLosef7">Ordnance Survey</a> Maps still show the <a href="/facts/Right-of-way_(transportation)/Vzbfroo1">right-of-way</a> across Morecambe Bay from Hest Bank to <a href="/facts/Grange-over-Sands/qojeUBkk">Grange-over-Sands</a>, and many walkers enjoy guided walks across the bay, which take place from Spring to Autumn, normally every other weekend, <a href="/facts/Tides/zNstvWPv">tides</a> allowing.  The right-of-way is not suitable for normal motor <a href="/facts/Vehicles/jSIEqANL">vehicles</a>, there being water at around knee-height to cross at the outflow from the <a href="/facts/River_Kent/RJYT0BKX">River Kent</a>.
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<h2 id="governance">Governance</h2>
<p>An <a href="/facts/Wards_and_electoral_divisions_of_the_United_Kingdom/7WUUaBQv">electoral ward</a> of the same name exists. This ward extends beyond the confines of the parish and has a population taken at the 2011 Census of 4,119.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
</p><p>Before <a href="/facts/Brexit/M80B3fIg">Brexit</a> for the <a href="/facts/European_Parliament/H9WLUd1r">European Parliament</a> residents in Slyne-with-Hest voted to elect <a href="/facts/Members_of_the_European_Parliament/rvxcGboD">MEPs</a> for the <a href="/facts/North_West_England_(European_Parliament_constituency)/ayt4zFAR">North West England</a> constituency.
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<h2 id="railway-line">Railway line</h2>
<p>In 1965 this originally coastal village was the scene of a rail accident on 20 May, when a sleeper train from <a href="/facts/Euston_railway_station/Ev5XSVXt">London Euston</a> bound for <a href="/facts/Glasgow_Central_station/Mk6oomd1">Glasgow Central</a> left the rails at 70 mph and collided with the <a href="/facts/Hest_Bank_railway_station/3Guxbd2x">Hest Bank station</a> buildings.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>  No one was seriously injured, although from that time Hest Bank has ceased to serve as a passenger station, its railside platform consequently now lying buried in undergrowth.
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<h2 id="community">Community</h2>
<p>The village has a primary school: St Lukes Slyne-with-Hest; and tennis, football and bowling clubs.
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<h2 id="notable-people">Notable people</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Tyson_Fury/3arYrttC">Tyson Fury</a>, boxer</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Thora_Hird/AwQg6eEn">Dame Thora Hird</a>, actress</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Helen_Pidd/XD53kX5b">Helen Pidd</a>, journalist</li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
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<li>Lancashire portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Listed_buildings_in_Slyne-with-Hest/DzCQ2Jsm">Listed buildings in Slyne-with-Hest </a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Slyne-with-Hest.

<ul><li><a href="http://www.slyne-with-hest.org.uk">Official website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101229100355/http://www.crossbayrun.org.uk/gallery.htm">Cross Bay Run to Hest Bank</a> by <a href="/facts/Keith_Wilkinson_(reporter)/1t1LXkvG">Keith Wilkinson (reporter)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.itvlocal.com/central/?player=CEN_HomePage_15&void=222260">ITV Local report on Cross Bay Run to Hest Bank</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Slyne-with-Hest Parish (30UH028)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 March 2021. <a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_census" target="_blank">/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_census</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Slyne-with-Hest Parish (E04005205)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 March 2021. <a href="/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_census" target="_blank">/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_census</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Ward population 2011". Retrieved 9 June 2015. <a href="http://www.ukcensusdata.com/slyne-with-hest-e05005244#sthash.ZF7EadHj.dpbs" target="_blank">http://www.ukcensusdata.com/slyne-with-hest-e05005244#sthash.ZF7EadHj.dpbs</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"THE HEST BANK DERAILMENT". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011.
 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110724091628/http://www.railpics.talktalk.net/hestbank.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110724091628/http://www.railpics.talktalk.net/hestbank.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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