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Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district 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.
The autonomous Barrow-in-Furness Borough Police force is established; SS City of Rome is launched, briefly the world's largest liner; 1882 - Barrow Central railway station is opened; 1884 - Michaelson Road Bridge is opened; 1885 The Barrow and Furness parliament constituency is established; Barrow-in-Furness Tramways Company commences operation.
Aim – musician, DJ and record producer [1]; Grian Chatten - musician, lead singer of post-punk band Fontaines D.C. was born in Barrow-in-Furness; Glenn Cornick – ex first bass player in the rock band Jethro Tull [2]
The area covered by the district was at the edge of the Furness peninsula. It jolted into the Irish Sea, being north of Morecambe Bay and south of the Duddon Estuary.The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the former county borough of Barrow-in-Furness and the Dalton-in-Furness urban district from the administrative county of Lancashire.
Sir James Ramsden The statue of Sir James Ramsden in Ramsden Square, Barrow-in-Furness. Sir James Ramsden (25 February 1822 – 19 October 1896) was a British mechanical engineer, industrialist, and civic leader, who played a dominant role in the development of the new town of Barrow-in-Furness, in the historic county of Lancashire.
People from Barrow-in-Furness by occupation (1 C) A. Abbots of Furness (1 P) Pages in category "People from Barrow-in-Furness"
Barrow Island is an area and former electoral ward of Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Originally separate from the British mainland, land reclamation in the 1860s saw the northern fringes of the island connected to Central Barrow .
Central Barrow refers both to the town centre of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England and to the former electoral ward that roughly covers the eastern part of that town centre. In 2001 5,584 ( ranking 5th out of 13 ) lived in the Central ward . [ 1 ]