Furness Abbey Museum

Furness Abbey Museum is a museum in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Furness Abbey Museum is situated nearby to Furness Abbey Tunnel, as well as near the hotel Abbey House.

Type: Museum
Description: museum in Barrow in Furness, England, UK
Also known as: “Furness Abbey Visitor Centre”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Abbey House and Furness Abbey Tunnel.

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 710 feet northwest of Furness Abbey Museum.

Furness Abbey Tunnel

Tunnel

Photo: Phil Catterall, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Furness Abbey Tunnel is situated 640 feet southeast of Furness Abbey Museum.

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 2,100 feet south of Furness Abbey Museum.

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.

Stainton with Adgarley

Village

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Stainton with Adgarley is a small village in Cumbria, England. It is situated about 5 miles from Dalton-in-Furness. It is a small farming community and is served by the Urswick Bardsea and Stainton Parish Council. Stainton with Adgarley is situated 2 miles east of Furness Abbey Museum.

Furness Abbey Museum

Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.13713° or 54° 8′ 14″ north

Longitude

-3.19826° or 3° 11′ 54″ west

Open location code

9C6R4RP2+VM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 250010949

OpenStreetMap feature

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OpenStreetMap feature

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Wikidata ID

Q113369651

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Highlights include Jubilee Bridge and FGH Chapel.

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