Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall
Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall is a Gothic Revival style municipal building in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The building, which served as the headquarters of the former Barrow Borough Council, and now one of the bases of Westmorland and Furness Council, lies within a Conservation Area with Grade II* listed status.Photo: Ian Petticrew, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town hall
- Description: neo-gothic municipal building in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK
- Address: Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 2LD
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library and Craven House.
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 1,300 feet northwest of Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall.
Craven House
Office
Craven House is a large office building in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England located on Michaelson Road close to the eponymous bridge. Constructed in the 1960s the building is noted for its length of roughly 90 m and consists of seven floors making it one of the tallest storied buildings in the town. Craven House is situated 520 feet south of Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall.
Michaelson Road Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Stevvvv4444, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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bridge was a swing bridge and then replaced by a pair of lift and roll bridges constructed between 1800 and 1884 then superseded by a more modern pair of bascule bridges in the mid-1960s. Michaelson Road Bridge is situated 1,100 feet south of Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barrow-in-Furness and Vickerstown.
Barrow-in-Furness
Photo: Stevvvv4444, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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-in-Furness Town Hall
- Categories: city hall, building, and government building
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.11155° or 54° 6′ 42″ northLongitude
-3.22799° or 3° 13′ 41″ westOperator
Westmorland and Furness CouncilOpen location code
9C6R4Q6C+JROpenStreetMap ID
way 323834161OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=townhallOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q4863855
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