Barrow Island
Barrow Island is an island in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Barrow Island is situated nearby to the suburb Hindpool, as well as near Vickerstown.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include St John’s Church and Michaelson Road Bridge.
St John’s Church
Church
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St. John's Church is a church on Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It is a Grade II listed building. The church was built in 1934-1935 of concrete with green slate roofs in a modern Byzantine style.
Michaelson Road Bridge
Bridge
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Michaelson Road Bridge is a road bridge connecting Central Barrow to Barrow Island in south Cumbria, England. The original high-level bridge was a swing bridge and then replaced by a pair of lift and roll bridges constructed between 1800 and 1884 then superseded by a more modern pair of bascule bridges in the mid-1960s.
Buccleuch Dock
Dock
Buccleuch Dock is one of the four docks which make up the Royal Port of Barrow in Barrow-in-Furness, England. It was constructed between 1863 and 1872 to the same specification as the attached Devonshire Dock - the docks having been separated by a bridge for most of their lifetime.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barrow-in-Furness and 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.
Vickerstown
Suburb
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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.
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.
Barrow Island
- Type: Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.10523° or 54° 6′ 19″ northLongitude
-3.22794° or 3° 13′ 41″ westElevation
56 feet (17 metres)Open location code
9C6R4Q4C+3RGeoNames ID
12624091
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