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HMS Invincible 1973: Barrow’s largest Naval surface ship
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Barrow has built ships & submarines for many navies and cruise
liner companies around the world inc. Argentina, Australia, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, France,
Greece, India, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, the
United Kingdom, United States of America and Venezuela.
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373 Merchant Vessels inc. ‘Oriana’ Cruise Liner & ‘British Admiral’
Oil Tanker once the worlds largest ship.
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312 Submarines inc. Britains first naval submarine HMS Holland,
the famous X-Craft Midget submarines of WW2 & current Astute
Class Nuclear Submarines.
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Hot water is circulated into it at one side of the dock dividing
wall and & cool water taken from the other.
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BIGGAR VILLAGE
Byg is Norse for barley - ‘gar’ means fields. It is
mentioned in the Domesday Book as Hougenai,
or "island of Hougun" from the Old Norse word
haugr meaning mound or hill.
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Gas Terminal
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FURNESS DIVING CLUB have
recorded amongst many
other species: Edible Crabs,
Lobsters, Anemones, Spider
Crabs, Whelks & Scorpion
Fish.
DANGER
Decoy
Control Box
HMS Vanguard 1992
Former
Salt
Pans
HMS Sheffield 1971
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In September 1943 six X-Craft midget
submarines famously made an attack
on the Tirpitz: in ‘Operation Source’.
The event was dramatised in the 1969
movie ‘Above Us the Waves’ Starring
John Mills.
Basking Sharks
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HMS M2 1919
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Barrow Off -Shore Wind Farm:
7km off Walney
Thirty 90m high Wind Turbines 2006
HMS Upholder 1939
Britain’s first rigid airship: HMA1
‘Mayfly’ was constructed in a floating hangar on
Cavendish Dock 1909/11.
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Piel
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Sea purslane
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Little
Foulney
Island
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7/
Mussel Bed
90
Slitch
Ridge
Leading
Light
Medieval
Field
System
Pho
Hill
Hide Bank
Hide
Viper’s Bugloss
Henbane
Alkanet
Thrift
Glasswort
Sea Purslane
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Sea
Gun
Battery
Central
Marsh
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Observation
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WC
Restharrow
Piel Ferry
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Piel Castle
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Spearhead
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Pier
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The
Spit
While engaged in development work on HMA 1: ‘Mayfly’, in a
specially made floating hangar on Cavendish Dock a group
of naval officers led by Commander Oliver Swann purchase &
modify an Avro Type D biplane with floats.
The maiden flight of this; the first seaplane to be flown in the
United Kingdom takes place from Cavendish Dock in Barrow
1911. It is also the first seaplane to be fitted with twin floats.
Later airships and balloons were built by Vickers on Walney Island
Roa Island
Ponds
Bay
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Foulney Island
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Important Breeding Site
Common, Arctic & Little Terns.
Causeway built 1845/7 by John Abel Smith.
Smith purchased Roa Island in 1840 &
planned to use it as a paddle steamer port
with rail link along the causeway into
Barrow. The Pier was built & rail link
established but both were severly
damaged in a storm in Dec 1852 & Smith
sold his interest to the Furness Railway
Company.
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South Walney E Cumbria Wildlife Trust
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Innisfail 1897
A Lugger foundered
near Seldom Seen Buoy,
off Walney.
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Lighthouse
Searchlight
Emplacement
Groyne Hide
(Built on the roof
of a Searchlight
Emplacement)
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An important breeding site for gulls.
Visited by many other migrating
birds inc. song birds & waders
Sea Anemones
265 bird species recorded on the
reserve
NO DOGS ALLOWED
Roa Island
Boating Club
Race Calendar
www.ribc.info
for
Visited by many other migrating
birds including large numbers of
over-wintering
Knot,
Dunlin,
Oystercatcher & Curlew.
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Oyster
Farm
Haws
Point
Kilometre
Mile
Though unsuccessful HMA1 paved the way for later Airships
inc. HMA 9 Designed by H.B Pratt and Barnes Wallis for
Vickers from a new hangar constructed on Walney Island. 18
November 1911
From Norse meaning
‘Red’ Island
Grey (Atlantic) Seals
Sea campion
Yellow horned poppy
Biting Stonecrop
Pyramidal Orchid
Portland Spurge
Restharrow
Wild Pansy
HMA1 ‘Mayfly’
Arctic tern
Little tern
Ringed plover
Oystercatcher
Eider
Skylark
Meadow pipit
Curlew
Dunlin
Knot
Great crested grebe
Red-breasted merganser
Cormorant
Common scoter
Foulney
Island
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Sea lavender
Glasswort
Sea kale
Sea campion
Yellow horned poppy
Michael
Island
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Prehistoric
Occupation
HMS Trafalgar 1981
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Leading Light No.4
Navigation Beacon c1875
HMS Asute 2007
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Conckhole
Saline Bath c1805
Piel Island
Salt Marsh
Fig Trees
Redshank
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(See Detailed Map)
Bass Pool
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Glasswort
(Samphire)
X-Craft 1943
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HMA 1 Hangar
(Footings Remain)
Isolation Hospital
1892 (dis)
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Dock Dividing Wall (Power Station Cooling System)
Rampside Hall c1634
(Private Ownership)
Scorpion Fish
(No Public Access)
Snab
Point
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Curlew
Sheep Island
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Pill
Box
Reed
Beds
Rampside
(See Detailed Map)
Snab Point to Piel Island walks
should only be undertaken with an
experienced guide.
Prehistoric
Occupation
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Roa Island
FAST INCOMING TIDES
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Cavendish
Dock 1879
St Michael’s
Church
Avro Type D Prototype Britains First Seaplane
flight takes off from Cavendish Dock 1911
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The brackish water is artificially heated by the nearby Power
Station’s cooling system causing some birds which normally
migrate to ‘overwinter’.
(now incorporated into Dock Wall)
HMS Albion 2001
(Flagship: Royal Navy)
HMS Holland 1901
The Royal Navy’s
first Submarine
Cavendish Dock
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Long Rein
Point
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Dogs are not allowed in the
breeding season, and should be
kept on a lead at all times.
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Lesser Black Backed Gull
Herring Gull
Eider Duck
Shelduck
Greater Black Backed Gull
Oystercatcher
Mallard
Moorhen
Coot
Wheatear
Redstart
Willow Warbler
Goldcrest
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Slipway
(early Lifeboats were
Launched from here)
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A Bosun’s Locker Cafe
(former Lifeboat shed)
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C Former Watch Tower
(Customs and Excise)
1847
B Roa Island House (Hotel Restaurant)
Former home of one of Barrow’s
founding fathers: Henry Schneider
discoverer of Iron Ore in Furness
Piel Island Ferry
Access to Foulney is
CUT OFF AT HIGH TIDE
Consult Local Tide Tables
Access to Foulney Island Reserve is
restricted to paths & marked trails
during the Breeding Season (May to
June) to stop disturbance to
breeding birds.
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Piel Pier
1846/1891: Steamers
Sailed to Fleetwood.
Timbers visible
(low tide)
RNLI
Life Boat Station
built 2000
Visitor Centre & Gift Shop
Jetty
Piel Island
Barrow Docks
Roa Island
148 Naval Surface Ships inc. HMS Sheffield lost in the Falklands
War & the current Flagship of the Royal Navy HMS Albion &
former flagships Hermes & Invincible.
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Road
Gas Terminal
Lobster
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Dismantled Railway Line
Piel Ferry
Offshore
Barrow Island
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Railway Line
Main Loop (on Track or Path)
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Mikasa Street and many others named after famous Barrow built
ships inc. Powerul Street & Vengeance Street can be found on
Walney Island.
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Piel Island
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Cycling Permitted on this part of Route
but not recommended (may be hard going)
Foulney
Island
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Because of her pivotal role, Mikasa’s position in Japanese history
is analogous to that of HMS Victory in British national
consciousness & has been preserved as a museum.
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Sheep
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Submerged
Forest
Roa Island
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Armistice 1919
The first British sea-going
concrete ship.
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Headin Haw
Brine Wells - c1902
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Roa Island Loop
Sandscale Haws Loop
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(former dynamite store)
Biggar
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Pill Box
Ramsey Island
Walney Island Loop
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Main Loop (on Road)
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Mikasa launched 1900 is the world’s only surviving
pre-dreadnought battle ship: Admiral Togo’s flagship at the Battle
of Tsushima (1905), in which the Japanese destroyed the Russian
combined fleets. The battle changed existing theories of
eugenics & white racial supremacy that were commonly used to
justify imperialism & racial oppression, & heralded Japan's rise as
a world power.
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Ramsay
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HIJMS Mikasa 1900
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HMS Dreadnought 1960
Britain’s first Nuclear Submarine
Walney
Geranium
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Reed
Beds
Cavendish
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Mainland Loop
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South Walney
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Du
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Old Railway
Station
Designations
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Nook
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Walking / Cycle Routes
(see Key Tour Route Map overleaf )
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Roose
Station
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Port of
Barrow
Biggar Dyke
(Medieval
Flood
Defence)
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Abbey
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Pill Boxes
(Crab Island)
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Prehistoric Site/Finds
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Walney
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WW2 Defences
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The Gulf Stream heats the waters off
Walney Island. Swimmers will experience
areas with unusually warm unmixed currents.
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He left the Royal Navy in 1950 after twelve years service. In 1950
he signed on the supply ship RRS Discovery II for its annual
voyage to the British Antarctic Territories. He signed off in
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1951 where he stayed until his
untimely death in 1963 at the age of 46.
The current PLC is the UK’s leading marine services company,
still engaged in shipping & amongst other things the design,
construction & operation of rescue submarines.
Suitable for Bathing
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During the chaos following Italian capitulation in 1943, he
escaped & joined the local Partisans until 1943 when he rejoined
the Allies & was returned to the U.K. In 1944 Freel was awarded of
the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal.
Established in Barrow in 1847. They operated sailing ships from
1852. By 1870 they were the largest UK coasting fleet. In the
1880s they began working steamers.
The most significant evidence of the Monks’ influence on the
island are remnants of coastal defences particularly Biggar Dyke,
which was mentioned pre 1537, & the visible ridge & furrow fields
of South Walney.
Popular Windsurfing Waters
Furness Railway
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Sandscale Haws
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Beacon Hill
Schneider
Square
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The name Walney comes from the
Old Norse ‘valna ey’, which means
‘Isle of the British’
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Barrow
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Best View
of Shipyard
slipways
Big
The Charioteers moved to Malta to prepare for Operation
Principle. In 1942 James Freel, Rodney Dove RNVR & Chariot
number XVI embarked in the submarine Trooper to attack
shipping in Palermo, Sicily, where they sank the troopship
Vimnale (8,500 tons). Having made their way ashore, they where
eventually apprehended by Italian police who handed them over
to the military who transferred them to P.O.W. camps.
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Sandy Gap
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WALNEY ISLAND
Medieval artefacts & constructions can be traced to the
occupation & influences of the Cistercian monks who established
a Grange Farm at Biggar.
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Camp Site
Point of Interest
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Pill Box
Workers’
Power
Allot
Tenement
Boat ML
Gdns
Buildings
Slow Worm
Racing
Events
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This turned out to be training in Scotland as a Charioteer, more
commonly known as a ‘Human Torpedo’ .
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Walney Island
Tummer Hill
(site of
former cock
fighting
P
pit)
An iron (hematite) mine,
active between 1871 - 1901
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Shipyard
Buildings
First Barrow
Ship: ‘Jane Roper’
8th largest island in England
around 12 miles long
population approx 13,000
Stank
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1852
Angling
Ra
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Jubile ge
Brid
1908
Second largest
indoor shipbuilding
facility in Europe
Named Wildlife Spotted at Location /
Sightseeing Flights Available
Stank
Mine
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MS A
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Visitor Centres
Gleaston Water Mill 1774
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Start of Walney to
Wear Cycle Route
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Once the second most wealthy &
powerful Cistercian monastery in
Britain.
Scheduled Ancient Monument
Town
Hall
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Docvkonshire
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Hall
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Nature Reserves
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Barrow
Sailing
Club
Finest Sand Beaches
View Point
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After serving on three battleships, Revenge, Royal Sovereign &
Rodney, he volunteered in May 1942 for ‘Special Duties’.
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Dock Museum
Bird Watching Site (Curlew Symbol)
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Streets named after Barrow built
ships: Vengeance St, Niobe St,
Powerful St, Mikasa St...
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Barrow’s most decorated seaman.
Born on the 13th December 1919 Freel joined the Royal Navy as a
‘Boy Seaman’ in 1936.
(Marine Garden City)
Allot
Gdns
Console
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Shelter
Furness
Golf Club
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Vickerstown
BOW BRIDGE
15th century stone bridge
on ancient packhorse route.
Grade 1 Listed Structure
087
3500,000 cubic ft Passenger & Mail Carrying c.1920/22
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Jetty
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Popular Kite Surfing Beach
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The park has since won the Landscape Institute
Heritage and Conservation Award 2007.
Ramsden
Square
Piel Castle
n o r oad
R
A5
Searchlight
Emplacement
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Site of former
Flax and Jute
works
Bird Watching Hide
Gleaston Castle c.1326
BARROW PARK
The 45 acre public park in Barrow-in-Furness is
based on a design by Thomas Mawson. The park
was recently restored in line with his original
plans
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Airships constructed here
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include: R9, R23, R26
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and R34.
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Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow
Station
http://www.southlakes-uk.co.uk/
http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/south-walney.html
http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/foulney-island.html
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/designatedareas/nnr/1006114.aspx
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-daysout/w-daysout-coast/w-daysout-coast-northwest.htm
Newton
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NELLA LAST
‘Housewife, 49’
Lived at No.9 Ilkley Rd.
Art Gene
Gallery
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Largest
Ironworks
in World
North
Scale
Ilk
Cafe or Restaurant
http://www.pielisland.co.uk/index.php?page=castle
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‘Earnsie’
means
Sea Eagle
Reservoir
ML 1865
Abbotswood
Hawcoat
Lower
Ormsgill
Historic Photographs
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(Suitable for Bathing)
R100 famously flew to Canada in July 1930 in 78 hours.
Covering the 3300 mile journey at an average speed of
42 mph. Arguably the greatest (& last) British Airship of
an age.
http://www.sirbarneswallis.com/Airships.htm
Lime
Kiln
Ducks,
Geese,
Moorhen
Public Toilets
Ship Inn Piel Island
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Earnse Bay
s Tarn Lane
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360,000 cubic ft Parseval Type c.1920/22
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West
Shore
Park
The airships built in Barrow led to the development of
the R100 for Vickers built in Howden Yorkshire with
Neville Shute (later known as a novelist) who was the
team’s Deputy Chief Engineer.
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seCau way
From Norse
‘Skali’ meaning
Summer Dwelling
Kite & Wind
Surfing
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http://www.walneyisle.co.uk
http://www.visitcumbria.com/sl/piel-castle.htm
Woodpecker
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Upper
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Ormsgill W
Cemetery
Reservoir
(Drained)
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How
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Site of
Cold War Nuclear
Bunker
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Ch ann
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Ormsgill
Farm
Or
Public House(s)
Dogs are not permitted onto Reserve
Walney
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Later airships including the R.26 class, were designed
and built on Walney by Pratt & Wallis. Wallis went on to
design the R80 built on Walney.
Lakes Gliding Club
(Sightseeing Flights
Available)
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Islands of Barrow
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/piel-castle/
Much of the iron rich red sandstone
used to build Barrow including the
Town Hall was mined here.
It is now a rich wildlife
environment inc. How Tun
Wood planted 1999.
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Refreshments & Hot Drinks
Furness Abbey
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Oystercatchers
breed just above
high tide level.
Please take care
when accessing
these areas during
Spring and Summer
H.B. Pratt was working in Barrow, & asked Wallis to join
him. Together, they designed His Majesty’s Airship No.9:
the first rigid British Airship to fly successfully from her
hangar on Walney Island.
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WW2
Rifle Range
Walney
Airport
Barnes Wallis (later of Bouncing Bomb fame) was
working as a draughtsman when he met H.B. Pratt.
Spherical
Balloons
c.1920/22
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Oystercatcher
1250,000 cubic ft Naval Rigid Airship c.1920/22
Barnes Wallis in Barrow
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Ormsgill (Hawcoat)
Qua rry B r o w
Sandstone
Quarry
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Walney
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Meeting
Ice cream Sold from a Van or Shop
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WW2
Aircraft
Dispersal
Pads
Ponds
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Natterjack Toad
B a nk L a ne
Hotel or B&B Accommodation
http://www.southlakes-uk.co.uk/
The original sandstone mansion was
the home & guest house of
Commander Craven, Chairman of
Vickers
Ship
building.
Many
dignitaries came to stay, including
King George V.
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Hotel
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Boxes
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ttp://www.forgottenfutures.org/forgottenfutures.co.uk/vickers/vickers.htm
http://www.sirbarneswallis.com/Airships.htm
http://www.dockmuseum.org.uk/archive/categories.asp?subject=Shipbuilding
http://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/Furness
Abbey House Hotel designed in 1910
& built in 1914 by Sir Edwin Lutyens
(1869 – 1944).
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Bank Lane
Disabled Access Facilities
Barrow’s Airships
Stank Lane
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Sow
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Lod
Millwood
Sir Edwin Lutyens
Barrow
Golf Club
Bus Route
Barrow Borough Council
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Red-breasted merganser
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Sanderling
A large Royal Air Force Training school was based on
Walney during WW2. The site is now partly within the
North Walney N.N.R. The current owner is BAE Systems.
It is also the base of the Lakes Gliding Club who offer
sightseeing flights over the Islands of Barrow.
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http://www.dockmuseum.org.uk/
http://www.dockmuseum.org.uk/archive/categories.asp?subject=Shipbuilding
St Mary’s
Church
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Sowerby
Wood
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Ungrazed Saltmarsh.
An important habitat which
enables saltmarsh flowers
to bloom throughout the
summer
Victorian
Bottle Dump
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Cormorant
Dalton
Castle
P
Parking
Dock Museum & Vickers Photographic Archive
Sinkfall
Up-ended
Pill Box on
Beach
Oystercatcher
Walney Airport
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Barnacle Goose
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Heron
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Walne
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Pill
Box
Oak
Head
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Hagg
Hills
Lowsy Point
Shelduck
Shope Tree
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Key
Find Out More: Useful Links
Dalton-in-Furness
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Scarth Hole
Walney Island
In
An ancient settlement
mentioned in Domesday
Book as ‘Daltune’
St Helen’s
Farm
Pill
Box
Shoveller
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Rare Nationally & Internationally recognised wildlife rich
habitats cover around half of Barrow Borough.
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Oak Lea
Farm
Robs Water
Farm
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Chapel Hills
Wood
Little Jack
Wood
King Fisher
Little Egret
Curlew
SH
Marram
Grass
Sand Dunes
Chapel Hills
SH
Common Lizard
SH
Neolithic Finds
(inc. Polished
Axe)
Scars are rare, cobble &
boulder dominated
intertidal habitats.
The first Kite Balloons made in Great Britain
were manufactured by VICKERS LIMITED
at Barrow-in-Furness. c.1920/22
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Puffball
Fungus
Fishermen’s
Cabins
SH
Bass
Knot
Betty Pit
The Moors
DANGEROUS QUICKSANDS
AND FAST INCOMING TIDES
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Great
Crested
Newt
Prehistoric
Flint & Axe Finds
Evidence of
mediaeval
shell middens
Violet
Pit
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Sandscale
Farm
Bombing
Decoy
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From 1st March to 31st July dogs
must be kept on a short lead, no
more than two metres.
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Dragonfly
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Fur
Housethwaite
Hill
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Natural England
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National Nature Reserve
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Peggy Pit
Natterjack
Toad
Breeding
Oystercatchers &
Ringed Plovers
on upper shore
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Sand Dunes
Barrow Island
Dova Haw
Ramsey Island
Roa Island
Sheep Island
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Breas
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The rotors are 126m in diameter: larger
than the London Eye. Together they are
capable of providing power for 100,000
homes.
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Grayling Butterfly
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Natterjack Toad
Wet Meadow
Rita Pit
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The remains of the vessel are still visible
at low tide, but anyone thinking of paying
a visit to the wreck site should have a
good knowledge of the tide times & the
sands around it: the vessel has claimed a
number of lives since its demise.
Shelduck
Kathleen Pit
Ethel Pit
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South Lakes
Wild Animal Park
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1845/7
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Blackpool Tower, which can be seen from
the Barrow coast on a clear day, is only
2m taller than each of these massive
turbines.
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Ringed Plover
Merlin
Barn Owl
Grass-of-Parnassus
Marram
Grass
Park
Farm
La
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Ship Wreck ‘Anastasi’ 1909
Lost Christmas Day 1946
Duddon
Sands
SPA/RAMSAR
WC
Kiosk
Sandscale Cottages
Round-leaved
Wintergreen
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Foulney Island
Headin Haw
Piel Island
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100,000 cubic ft Sea Scout Type c.1920/22
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Coral root Orchid
Sanderling
Former
Iron Ore Mines
Ro
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North Walney
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30 of the World’s Largest Wind
Turbines - 156m High 661 Tonnes
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Bronze Age &
Neolithic Site
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The Fat Controller
Holy
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ORMONDE OFF -SHORE
WIND FARM 2011
Sited 10km off Walney Island
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(Built & operated by several different companies)
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The Fat Controller was modelled on one of
Barrow’s founding fathers, the Industrialist
Sir James Ramsden.
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National Nature Reserve
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The Largest Off-Shore
Wind Farm in the World
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Walney Island is ‘Sodor’ across a bridge (Jubilee Bridge)
between Barrow & Vicarstown (Vickerstown).
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Sandscale Haws
A590
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“Haws” is Old Norse for hill
Porpoise
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Access to Beach &
Natterjack Breeding Ponds
(Boardwalks)
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Railway
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Slip
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A590
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Disused Slag Banks
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Flounder
Sandscale Haws is one of the finest sites
for sand dune flowers in the country.
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One of the most beautiful
beaches in the country: fine sands
& views of the Lake District mountains
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Roanhead
The Thomas the Tank Engine stories were based on
Barrow’s once extensive railway system which serviced the
Iron Works, Docks and carried Passengers.
GUIDED
WALKS
ONLY
(At Low Tide)
Piel
Harbour
1643: Refuge of the
Parliamentarian Fleet
Piel Ferry
Pilot’s
Cottages
Old Canon
WC
Jetty
Sightseeing flights available
Ship Inn Est 1746
Pond
(See Detailed Map)
Camp Site
Salt works 1662
5th June 1487 Lambert Simnel's army
landed on Piel . He then laid claim to the
English Throne.
Piel Castle c1237
English Heritage
Design: Stuart Bastik, Art Gene Associates Copyright C