Walney Island
Walney Island, also known as the Isle of Walney, is an island off the west coast of England, at the western end of Morecambe Bay in the Irish Sea. The island is in Cumbria and is also located within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Isle of Walney” and “Walney”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Walney School and St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Walney.
Walney School
School
Walney School is a secondary school on Walney Island in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. As a result of the Education Act 1944, Walney Island needed to have its own secondary school. Today it is an 11 – 16 Academy with approximately 585 students currently on roll.
St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Walney
Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary the Virgin's Church is located on the Promenade, Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness. Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Barrow, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.
Dock Museum
Museum
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Dock Museum is situated in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Most of its exhibits concern the history of the town, focusing on the shipbuilding industry at VSEL, the steelworks industry — of which Barrow once had the world's largest, the Furness Railway and the World War II bombings of the town.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vickerstown and North Scale.
Vickerstown
Suburb
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vickerstown is an area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, covered by the wards of Walney North and Walney South. It is an example of a model village built for workers by a company needing to expand, having been constructed in the early 20th century by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering.
North Scale
Village
North Scale is a village and one of only four settlements on the Isle of Walney, Cumbria, England. It is the northernmost settlement, lying a mile north of Vickerstown.
Barrow-in-Furness
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Barrow-in-Furness is an industrial town and seaport in Cumbria, at the tip of the Furness peninsula. Many visitors come to Barrow for the Dock Museum, which tells the history of steelworks, the shipyard and the Barrow Blitz.
Walney Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Walney Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Walney Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “والني (جزيرة)”
- Arabic: “والني”
- Cebuano: “Walney Island”
- Chinese: “沃尔尼岛”
- Dutch: “Walney Island”
- French: “Walney”
- German: “Walney Island”
- Hebrew: “האי וולני”
- Japanese: “ウォルニー島”
- Japanese: “南ウェルニー島”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Walney Island”
- Polish: “Walney”
- Serbian: “Вални”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Walney”
- Slovenian: “Isle of Walney”
- Slovenian: “otok Walney”
- Slovenian: “Walney Island”
- Slovenian: “Walney”
- Spanish: “isla de Walney”
- Spanish: “Isla Walney”
- Swedish: “Walney Island”
- Welsh: “Ynys Walney”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as North Walney and Tummer Hill.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Beacon Brow (Walney) and Barrow In Furness.
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