North West England
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St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Walney

St Mary the Virgin's Church is located on the Promenade, , Barrow-in-Furness. , England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Barrow, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Anglican
  • Description: church at Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness. Cumbria, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Church of St Mary the Virgin, Vickerstown” and “St Mary’s Church”
  • Postal code: LA14 3AT

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Walney Bridge and Dock Museum.

Bridge
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, officially Jubilee Bridge, is a bascule bridge in , , England. Completed in 1908, it spans Walney Channel, linking Barrow Island to . is situated 880 feet east of St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Walney.

Museum
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is situated in , , . Most of its exhibits concern the , 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. is situated 2,500 feet northeast of St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Walney.

Library
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is a Grade II listed Beaux-Arts style building located at Ramsden Square, , . 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. is situated 1 mile northeast of St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Walney.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vickerstown and Barrow-in-Furness.

Suburb
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an area of , , 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.

Photo: Stevvvv4444, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an industrial town and seaport in , 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.

Village
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 .

St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Walney

Latitude
54.10673° or 54° 6′ 24″ north
Longitude
-3.24728° or 3° 14′ 50″ west
Open location code
9C6R4Q43+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 93744680
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­anglican
Wiki­data ID
Q7594650
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In Other Languages

“St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Walney” goes by many names.
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه القديسه مريم العذراء”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Walney”. Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.