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| Static Image Width: | 240 |
| Static Image Caption: | Manor Road |
| Official Name: | Slyne-with-Hest |
| Civil Parish: | Slyne-with-Hest |
| Country: | England |
| Region: | North West England |
| Population: | 3,126 |
| Population Ref: | (2011) |
| Os Grid Reference: | SD473660 |
| Coordinates: | 54.088°N -2.806°W |
| Post Town: | LANCASTER |
| Postcode Area: | LA |
| Postcode District: | LA2 |
| Dial Code: | 01524 |
| Pushpin Map: | United Kingdom City of Lancaster |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the City of Lancaster district |
Slyne-with-Hest is a civil parish in the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. It had a population of 3,163 recorded in the 2001 census, decreasing to 3,126 at the 2011 Census. The parish is north of Lancaster and consists of two villages; Slyne, on the A6 road, and Hest Bank on the coast.
Hest Bank is a village in north-western Lancashire, England, the boundaries of which include the coastline, from a western shoreline of salt-flats that adjoin the northern extremities of Morecambe's Victorian era Promenade, to a less clearly defined boundary in the east with the village of Slyne, which dates from Anglo-Saxon times.
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 Morecambe Bay. Ordnance Survey Maps still show the right-of-way across Morecambe Bay from Hest Bank to Grange-over-Sands, and many walkers enjoy guided walks across the bay, which take place from Spring to Autumn, normally every other weekend, tides allowing. The right-of-way is not suitable for normal motor vehicles, there being water at around knee-height to cross at the outflow from the River Kent.
An electoral ward 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.[1]
Before Brexit for the European Parliament residents in Slyne-with-Hest voted to elect MEPs for the North West England constituency.
In 1965 this originally coastal village was the scene of a rail accident on 20 May, when a sleeper train from London Euston bound for Glasgow Central left the rails at 70 mph and collided with the Hest Bank station buildings.[2] 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.
The village has a primary school: St Lukes Slyne-with-Hest; and tennis, football and bowling clubs.