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Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire , it was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1867 and merged with Dalton-in-Furness Urban District in 1974 to form the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness .
Barrow-in-Furness was a local government district with borough status in Cumbria, England. It was named after its main town, Barrow-in-Furness. Other settlements included Dalton-in-Furness and Askam-in-Furness. It was the smallest district in Cumbria, but the most densely populated, with 924 people per square kilometre.
Barrow Corn Mills are built; 1872 - Furness Golf Club is founded; 1873 - Duke of Devonshire is the first steamship to be built in Barrow; 1875 Barrow Football Club, the forerunner of Barrow Raiders is established; Devonshire Buildings are built; 1876 - Barrow's steelworks become the world's largest
Barrow-in-Furness is a town in south Cumbria (England), connected by the A590 road. The old town and seaport form about half of the modern Borough of Barrow-in-Furness. Before 1 April 1974, Barrow was in Lancashire .
In 1822 a list of householders gives the names of two schoolteachers in Barrow Village: Captain James Brown – schoolmaster and pilot: Peggy Wilkinson- schoolteacher. Six years later in 1828, a directory covering the north-west of England briefly mentioned the Furness area in a few sentences. Captain James Barrow was listed as schoolteacher.
Barrow-in-Furness is an industrial town and seaport in Cumbria, at the tip of the Furness peninsula. Many visitors come to Barrow for the Dock Museum, which tells the history of steelworks, the shipyard and the Barrow Blitz. Walney Island has two world-renowned nature reserves, both of which have Site of Special Scientific Interest designation.
One. Created from. North Lancashire. Barrow and Furness, formerly known as Barrow-in-Furness, is a constituency [n 1] in Cumbria which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Simon Fell of the Conservative Party since 2019. [n 2]
