Watch Tower

Watch Tower is a castle in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Watch Tower is situated nearby to the building Tower House, as well as near the village Roa Island.

Photo: Malcolm Carruthers, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tower House and Barrow Lifeboat Station.

Tower House

Building

Photo: Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Tower House is a building.

Barrow Lifeboat Station

Building

Photo: Ercesuzan, Public domain.

Barrow Lifeboat Station is located on Roa Island, near the town of Barrow in Furness, formerly part of Lancashire, but now in Cumbria. A lifeboat was first stationed at Barrow-in-Furness by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1864. Barrow Lifeboat Station is situated 690 feet southeast of Watch Tower.

Piel Island

Islet

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Piel Island lies in Morecambe Bay, around 1⁄2 mile off the southern tip of the Furness peninsula in the administrative county of Cumbria, England. It is one of the Islands of Furness, three of which sit near to Piel at the mouth of Walney Channel. Piel Island is situated 3,600 feet south of Watch Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Roa Island and Rampside.

Roa Island

Village

Photo: Malcolm Carruthers, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Roa Island lies just over half a mile south of the village of Rampside at the southernmost point of the Furness Peninsula in Cumbria, formerly in the county of Lancashire north of the sands.

Rampside

Village

Photo: Vishnumukundan, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rampside is a village in Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is located a few miles south-east of the town of Barrow-in-Furness, in the north-western corner of Morecambe Bay on the Furness peninsula.

Headin Haw

Locality

Headin Haw, also spelled Headen Haw, is part of the Islands of Furness. It is a small tidal island approximately 200 metres off the coast of Cumbria, England, adjacent to the town of Barrow-in-Furness. Headin Haw is situated 2 miles northwest of Watch Tower.

Watch Tower

Type: Castle
Description: observation tower in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK
Categories: observation tower, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.07399° or 54° 4′ 26″ north

Longitude

-3.17542° or 3° 10′ 32″ west

Open location code

9C6R3RFF+HR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 676617620

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=castle

Wikidata ID

Q26513564

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