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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.
There are 274 listed buildings in the former Borough of Barrow-in-Furness (now part of Westmorland and Furness) , with about 70% in Barrow-in-Furness itself. The 2015 Heritage Index formed by the Royal Society of Arts and the Heritage Lottery Fund placed the Borough as seventh highest of 325 English districts with an especially high score relating to industrial heritage assets. [1]
Former buildings and structures in Barrow-in-Furness (18 P) Pages in category "History of Barrow-in-Furness" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Henry William Schneider (12 May 1817 – 11 November 1887) was a British industrialist, and politician, who played a leading role in the development of the new town of Barrow-in-Furness. [ 1 ] Biography
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.
The Furness Railway photographed in March 2016. The Co-operative Building on Abbey Road in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England is a former department store. [1] Constructed by the Barrow Co-operative Society in 1889 and expanded in 1902 it served as the town's largest such shop up until closure in 1996.
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 .