Miners
Miners is a work of art in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Miners is situated nearby to Furness College, as well as near the pitch Urban Extreme Skate Park.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dock Museum and Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library.
Dock Museum
Museum
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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. Dock Museum is situated 2,200 feet southeast of Miners.
Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library
Library
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Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library is a Grade II listed Beaux-Arts style building located at Ramsden Square, Barrow-in-Furness, England. Operated since 2023 by Westmorland and Furness Council, it is the largest library in the town and the present structure, designed by J A Charles was originally built as a Carnegie library with support from the Carnegie Foundation. Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library is situated 2,900 feet east of Miners.
St James’ Church, Barrow-in-Furness
Church
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St. James Church located on Blake Street in Barrow-in-Furness, belongs to the Church of England's Diocese of Carlisle within the ecclesiastical Province of York. The present church building dates from the mid-19th century and is Grade II* listed. St James’ Church, Barrow-in-Furness is situated 2,300 feet east of Miners.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Scale and Barrow-in-Furness.
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.
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.
Miners
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: sculpture
- Category: tourism
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.11742° or 54° 7′ 3″ northLongitude
-3.24411° or 3° 14′ 39″ westOpen location code
9C6R4Q84+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 12269096407OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=sculpture
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