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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 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 Borough of Barrow-in-Furness is formed; Barrow is annexed from Lancashire to become part of the modern county of Cumbria; 1977 - HMS Invincible is launched; 1980 - Barrow's last remaining steelworks close down; 1981 - HMS Trafalgar is launched; 1984 - Furness General Hospital is opened; 1985 - Rampside Gas Terminal first collects gas from ...
The Furness Peninsula, also known as Low Furness, is an area of villages, agricultural land and low-lying moorland, with the industrial town of Barrow-in-Furness at its head. The peninsula is bordered by the estuaries of the River Duddon to the west and the River Leven in Morecambe Bay to the east.
It later became Roose Hospital but was closed in the 1980s with the opening of Furness General Hospital, and later demolished. The site is now mostly a housing development. A multiple sports venue called Little Park existed from the 1880s until the late 1930s and hosted Barrow Raiders, Barrow Bombers and Barrow A.F.C. at various times. [4] [5] [6]
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 .