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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.
St. George's Square is a conservation area and is flanked by a number of listed buildings. Amongst the most notable buildings located in St. George's Square are the former headquarters of the Furness Railway and Barrow's first permanent train station which were completed in 1863, [1] however this was replaced by Barrow Central Station a mere 20 years later.
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.
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]
History of Barrow-in-Furness (1 C, 22 P) I. Images of Barrow-in-Furness (10 F) N. Newton-in-Furness (1 C, 1 P) P. People from the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness (4 C, 1 P)
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 .
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.