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Toponymy. The name was originally that of an island, Barrai, which can be traced back to 1190. This was later renamed Old Barrow, recorded as Oldebarrey in 1537, and Old Barrow Insula and Barrohead in 1577. The island was then joined to the mainland and the town took its name.
From Barrai to Barrow - By Alice Leach. Like many other Low Furness villages, Barrow was founded as a grange or home farm by the Cistercian monks of Furness Abbey. First mentioned in...
Jan 26, 2018 · The abbey first belonged to the Order of Savigny and then to the Cistercians. At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s, Furness was the second richest Cistercian monastery in England after Fountain’s Abbey in North Yorkshire, which it matches for splendour.
Barrow-in-Furness, port town and borough (district), administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England. It lies on the seaward side of the Furness peninsula between the estuary of the River Duddon and Morecambe Bay.
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Feb 23, 2022 · The port, harbour and docks grew and the town of Barrow in Furness began to be established, together with exploitation of iron smelting and casting. The late 18th Century saw the Industrial Revolution come to the area, and Barrow in Furness became a centre for ship-building and iron working.
Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it was incorporated a...
Barrow changed when the iron prospector Henry Schneider arrived in Furness in 1839 and, with other investors, opened the Furness Railway in 1846 to transport iron ore and slate from local mines to the coast.
