Docks Museum

Docks Museum is a bus stop in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Docks Museum is situated nearby to Dock Museum, as well as near the factory Devonshire Dock Hall.

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.

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 1,900 feet northeast of Docks Museum.

Devonshire Dock Hall

Factory

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Devonshire Dock Hall is a large indoor shipbuilding and assembly complex that forms part of the BAE Systems shipyard in the Barrow Island area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Devonshire Dock Hall is situated 690 feet southeast of Docks Museum.

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.

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.

Docks Museum

Type: Bus stop
Category: transportation
Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.11186° or 54° 6′ 43″ north

Longitude

-3.23906° or 3° 14′ 21″ west

Open location code

9C6R4Q66+P9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 486586619

OpenStreetMap feature

highway=bus_stop

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=platform

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