Furness Abbey
Furness Abbey, or St. Mary of Furness, is a former monastery located to the north of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The abbey dates back to 1123 and was once the second-wealthiest and most powerful Cistercian monastery in the country, behind Fountains Abbey, prior to its dissolution during the English Reformation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Ruin
- Description: abbey in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Furness Abbey, Including All Medieval Remains In Care Of English Heritage”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Furness Abbey Tunnel and Barrow Sixth Form College.
Furness Abbey Tunnel
Tunnel
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Furness Abbey Tunnel is situated 340 feet east of Furness Abbey.
Barrow Sixth Form College
College
Barrow Sixth Form College, no longer considered a sixth form college, is part of Furness College, and is in the outskirts of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Barrow Sixth Form College is situated 1,600 feet southwest of Furness Abbey.
Abbey House
Hotel
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Abbey House on Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England is a Neo-Elizabethan H-plan mansion designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1914 as a guest house for Vickers Ltd and a flat for the Managing Director, Sir James McKechnie. Abbey House is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Furness Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newton-in-Furness and Dalton-in-Furness.
Newton-in-Furness
Village
Photo: George Hopkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newton is a village in the civil parish of Dalton Town with Newton, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.
Dalton-in-Furness
Town
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Dalton-in-Furness is a town in the Westmorland and Furness district, in Cumbria, England, 4 miles north east of Barrow-in-Furness. Along with the rest of the Furness peninsula, it was historically part of Lancashire. Dalton-in-Furness is situated 1½ miles northeast of Furness Abbey.
Salthouse
Suburb
Salthouse is an area of Barrow-in-Furness, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. Centred on Salthouse Road to the east of the town centre it was historically a ward in its own right however has since been subsumed into the wards of Risedale and Central Barrow. Salthouse is situated 2 miles south of Furness Abbey.
Furness Abbey
- Categories: abbey, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Furness Abbey” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “弗內斯修道院”
- Dutch: “Abdij van Furness”
- Dutch: “Furness Abbey”
- French: “Abbaye de Barrow-in-Furness”
- French: “abbaye de Furness”
- French: “Abbaye de Furness”
- French: “Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Barrow-in-Furness”
- French: “Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Furness”
- German: “Furness Abbey”
- German: “St. Mary of Furness”
- Italian: “abbazia di Furness”
- Italian: “Abbazia di Furness”
- Italian: “Abbazia di Santa Maria di Furness”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Furness Abbey”
- Spanish: “abadia de Furness”
- Spanish: “abadía de Furness”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Furness”
- Welsh: “Abati Furness”
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