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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.
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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.
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Sightseeing flights available
Ship Inn Est 1746
Pond
(See Detailed Map)
Camp Site
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Brine Wells - c1902
Long Rein
Point
Decoy
Control Box
Carlisle
Piel Castle c1237
HMS Dreadnought 1960
Britain’s first Nuclear Submarine
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HMA1 ‘MAYFLY’
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
The Charioteers moved to Malta to prepare for Operation Principle. In
1942 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.
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.
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The Maiden flight of this; the first seaplane to be flown
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Dock in Barrow 1911. It is also the first seaplane
to be fitted with twin floats.
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Offshore
Gas Terminal
Later airships and balloons were built
by Vickers on Walney Island
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Offshore
Ramsey Island
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Gas Terminal
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Sea Purslane
FURNESS DIVING CLUB have
recorded amongst many
other species: Edible crabs,
lobsters, anemones, spider
crabs, whelks & scorpion
fish.
Rampside Hall c1634
(Private Ownership)
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Scorpion Fish
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Conckhole
Saline Bath c1805
Leading Light No.4
Navigation Beacon c1875
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HMS Holland 1901
The Royal Navy’s
first Submarine
Medieval
Field
System
Pho
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Hide Bank
Hide
Viper’s Bugloss
Henbane
Alkanet
Thrift
Glasswort
Sea Purslane
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Sea
Gun
Battery
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WC Central
Marsh
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Observation
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Arctic Tern
Little Tern
HMS Upholder 1939
Ringed Plover
Oystercatcher
Eider
Skylark
Meadow Pipit
Curlew
Dunlin
Knot
Great Crested Grebe
Red-Breasted Merganser
Cormorant
Common Scoter
Slitch
Ridge
Foulney
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HMS Albion 2001
(Flagship: Royal Navy)
Sea campion
Yellow horned poppy
Biting Stonecrop
Pyramidal Orchid
Portland Spurge
Restharrow
Wild Pansy
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Piel
Harbour
Bass Pool
Salt Marsh
Mussel Bed
Little
Foulney
Island
Leading
Light
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HMS Asute 2007
In September 1943 six X-Craft midget
submarines famously made an attack
on the Tirpitz: in ‘Operation Source’
which was dramatised in the 1969
movie ‘Above Us the Waves’ Starring
John Mills.
Access to Foulney is
CUT OFF AT HIGH TIDE
Consult Local Tide Tables
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(No Public Access)
Prehistoric
Occupation
Sea purslane
Sea lavender
Glasswort
Sea kale
Sea campion
Yellow horned poppy
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(See Detailed Map)
Sheep Island
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Piel Island
Isolation Hospital
1892 (dis)
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(See Detailed Map)
Snab Point to Piel Island Walks
should only be Undertaken with an
Experienced Guide.
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Lobster
Roa Island
Glasswort
(Samphire)
Because of her pivotal role at a decisive
point in Japan's emergence on the world
stage, Mikasa holds a position in
Japanese history analogous to that of
HMS Victory in British national
consciousness & is preserved as a
museum.
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HIJMS Mikasa 1900
MIKASA:
Launched 1900, is the worlds only
surviving pre-dreadnought battle ship:
Admiral Togo’s flagship at the Battle of
Tsushima (1905), in which the Japanese
annihilated the Russian combined fleets.
Undercutting then-accepted theories of
eugenics & white racial supremacy once
used to justify imperialism & racial
oppression. Mikasa heralded Japan's
ascendancy as a world power.
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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.
HMS Sheffield 1971
This turned out to be training in Scotland as a Charioteer, more commonly
known as a ‘Human Torpedo’ .
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Prehistoric
Occupation
During the chaos following Italian capitulation in 1943, he escaped &
joined the local Partizan’s until 1943 when he rejoined the Allies & was
returned to the U.K. In 1944 Freel was awarded of the Conspicuous
Gallantry Medal.
Barrow Off -Shore Wind Farm:
7km off Walney
Thirty 90m high Wind Turbines 2006
Pill Box
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.
312 Submarines inc. Britains first naval submarine HMS Holland, the
famous X-Craft Midget submarines of WW2 & current Astute Class Nuclear
Submarines.
After serving on three battleships; Revenge, Royal Sovereign & Rodney, he
volunteered in May 1942 for ‘Special Duties’.
Lambert Simnel's army landed on Piel
5th June 1487. He then laid claim to
the English throne.
English Heritage
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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.
Born on the 13th December 1919 Freel joined the Royal Navy as a ‘Boy
Seaman’ in 1936.
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Barrow’s most decorated seaman.
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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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Power
(now incorporated into Dock Wall)
Port of
Barrow
Submerged
Forest
373 Merchant Vessels inc. ‘Oriana’ Cruise Liner & ‘British Admiral’ Oil
Tanker once the worlds largest ship.
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Britain’s first rigid airship: HMA1
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Dock (See Detailed Map)
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Biggar
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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‘Mayfly’ was constructed in a floating hangar on
Cavendish Dock 1909/11.
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Fig Trees
Curlew
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Sea Anemones
The first Kite Balloons made in Great Britain
were manufactured by VICKERS LIMITED
at Barrow-in-Furness. c.1920/22
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Leece
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(former dynamite store)
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HMS M2 1919
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Salt works 1662
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Walney
Geranium
HMA 1 Hangar
(Footings Remain)
To Gle
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Dock Dividing Wall (Power Station Cooling System)
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Beds
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Barrow
Island
Biggar Dyke
(Medieval
Flood
Defence)
Thor ny
Nook
Avro Type D Prototype Britains First Seaplane
flight takes off from Cavendish Dock 1911
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Barrow
Island
Boat Club
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Piel Ferry
Pilot’s
Cottages
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Watermill
1774
Stank
The Fat Controller was modelled on one of
Barrow’s founding fathers, the Industrialist
Sir James Ramsden.
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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.
Walney Island being ‘Sodor’ across a
bridge (Jubilee Bridge) from Barrow
landing in Vicarstown (Vickerstown).
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1643: Refuge of the
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CAVENDISH DOCK
The brackish water is artificially heated by the nearby
Power Station’s cooling system causing some birds
which normally migrate to overwinter.
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Roa Island
Piel
Harbour
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Coa
Barrow Docks
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WALKS
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(At Low Tide)
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HMS Trafalgar 1981
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.
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Piel Island
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Point of Interest
The Thomas the Tank Engine stories were
based on Barrow’s once extensive railway
system which serviced the Iron Works,
Docks and carried Passengers.
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Workers
Tenement
Buildings
WW2 Defences
Prehistoric Site/Finds
BOW BRIDGE
15th century stone bridge
on ancient packhorse route.
Grade 1 Listed Structure
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Old Railway
Station
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Sightseeing Flights Available
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JAMES FISHER & SONS Est. in Barrow; 1847
operated sailing ships from 1852. By 1870
they were the largest UK coasting fleet. In
the 1880’s they began working steamers.
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Sandscale Haws Loop
The Fat Controller
Beacon Hill
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
St John’s
Church
(Crab Island)
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Submarine 1966
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field
Jetty
The Gulf Stream heats the waters off
Walney Island. Swimmers will experience
areas with unusually warm unmixed currents.
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Schneider
Square
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Roa Island Loop
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First Barrow
Ship: ‘Jane Roper’
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RNLI
Life Boat Station
built 2000
Visitor Centre & Gift Shop
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Shipyard
Buildings
Popular Windsurfing Waters
Cycling Permitted on this part of Route
but not recommended (may be hard going)
Former Iron
Mine
Town
Hall
Best View
of Shipyard
slipways
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1852
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The park has since won the Landscape Institute
Heritage and Conservation Award 2007.
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Piel Island Ferry
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Second Largest
indoor Shipbuilding
facility in Europe
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English
Heritage
Walney Island Loop
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B Roa Island House (Hotel Restaurant)
Former home of one of Barrow’s
founding fathers: Henry Schneider
discoverer of Iron Ore in Furness
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Dock Museum
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The name Walney comes from the
Old Norse ‘valna ey’, which means
‘Isle of the British’
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Abbey 1123M
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A Bosun’s Locker Cafe
(former Lifeboat shed)
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Square
Bir
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(Customs and Excise)
1847
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Slipway
(early Lifeboats were
Launched from here)
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Roa Island
Boating Club
Race Calendar
www.ribc.info
Tummer Hill
( Site of
former Cock
Fighting
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Gre
Piel Pier
1846/1891: Steamers
Sailed to Fleetwood.
Timbers visible
(low tide)
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‘Housewife, 49’
Lived at No.9 Ilkley Rd.
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Barrow
Sailing
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8th Largest Island in England
around 12 Miles Long
Population approx 13,000
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From Norse meaning
‘Red’ Island
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Streets named after Barrow built
ships: Vengeance St, Niobe St,
Powerful St, Mikasa St...
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These include Nature Reserves
Sites of Special Scientific Interest
(SSSI's), Wetlands of International Importance (RAMSAR's), Special
Protection Areas or are sites designated as a ‘Special Area of Conservation’.
Roa Island
(Marine Garden City)
Console
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Shelter
Furness
Golf Club
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Vickerstown
ln
Wa
of Barrow-in-Furness.
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Site of former
Flax and Jute
works
Big
Rare Nationally & Internationally Recognised
Wildlife Rich Habitats cover half of the Borough
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Searchlight
Emplacement
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Abbey
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Hotel
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Control
Tower
Reservoir
Jetty
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FURNESS ABBEY
Once the second most
wealthy & powerful Cistercian
monastery
in
Britain.
Lower
Ormsgill
Barrow
Station
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Airships constructed here
include: R9, R23, R26
She
and R34.
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Art Gene
Gallery
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Start of Walney to
Wear Cycle Route
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Armistice 1919
The first British sea-going
concrete ship.
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Popular Kite Surfing Beach
Site of
Cold War Nuclear
Bunker
Woodpecker
Camp Site
Mainland Loop
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Ducks,
Geese,
Moorhen
Largest
Ironworks
in World
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Barrow Island
Dova Haw
Foulney Island
Headin Haw
Piel Island
Ramsey Island
Roa Island
Sheep Island
Walney Island
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Kiln
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North
Scale
Named Wildlife Spotted at Location /
Main Loop (on Road)
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‘Earnsie’
A large Royal Air Force Training school means
was based on Walney during WW2. The Sea Eagle
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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Spherical
Balloons
c.1920/22
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Earnse Bay
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From Norse
‘Skali’ meaning
Summer Dwelling
West
Shore
Park
(Suitable
for
Bathing)
seCau way
Or
Hawcoat
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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Upper
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Ormsgill
Cemetery
Reservoir
(Drained)
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Kite
Surfing
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Lakes Gliding Club
(Sightseeing Flights
Available)
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Wes
3500,000 cubic ft Passenger & Mail Carrying c.1920/22
Walney
Airport
Ormsgill
Farm
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Visitor Centres
Lane
360,000 cubic ft Parseval Type c.1920/22
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WW2
Rifle Range
Bank Lane
Ormsgill (Hawcoat)
Quarry B r o w
Sandstone
Quarry
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Walney
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Meeting
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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Bank Lane
Pill
Boxes
WW1
Practice Trenches
Oystercatchers
breed just above
high tide level.
Please take care
when accessing
these areas during
Spring and Summer
Dismantled Railway Line
Railway Line
Millwood
SIR EDWIN LUTYENS
Abbey House Hotel designed in 1910
& built in 1914 by Sir Edwin Lutyens
(1869 – 1944).
Barrow
Golf Club
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Walney Airport
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The Islands of Barrow
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View Point
Footpath within Reserve: NO CYCLING
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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.
WW2
Aircraft
Dispersal
Pads
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Finest Sand Beaches
Main Loop (on Track or Path)
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Sow
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Natterjack Toad
Barnes Wallis (later of Bouncing Bomb
fame) was working as a draughtsman
when he met H.B. Pratt.
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Ungrazed Saltmarsh.
An important habitat which
enables saltmarsh flowers
to bloom throughout the
summer
Victorian
Bottle Dump
1250,000 cubic ft Naval Rigid Airship c.1920/22
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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Cormorant
Marram
Grass
Sand Dunes
Shope Tree
Scar
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Up-ended
Pill Box on
Beach
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Shelduck
way
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Sowerby
Wood
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Oystercatcher
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Bird Watching Site (Curlew Symbol)
Track within Reserve
Sinkfall
Barnacle Goose
Bird Watching Hide
Designations
Hagg Spring
Wood
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Dogs are not permitted onto Reserve
Walking / Cycle Routes
(see Key Tour Route Map overleaf )
Dalton
Station
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Fur rk Rd
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Neolithic Finds
(inc. Polished
Axe)
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Pill
Box
Key
St Mary’s
Church
Lowsy Point
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Scarth Hole
Dalton
Castle
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Public Toilets
Cafe or Restaurant
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Hagg
Hills
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Public House(s)
In
Dalton-in-Furness
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Pill
Box
Shoveller
Ice cream Sold from a Van or Shop
Stank Lane
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Oak Lea
Farm
Robs Water
Farm
Hotel or B&B Accommodation
Refreshments & Hot Drinks
An Ancient settlement
mentioned in Domesday
Book as ‘Daltune’
St Helen’s
Farm
Little Jack
Wood
King Fisher
Little Egret
Curlew
Heron Oak
Knot
SH
Common Lizard
A590
Chapel Hills
Wood
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Cliffe La
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Fishermen’s
Cabins
SH
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Walne
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Puffball
Fungus
Prehistoric
Flint & Axe Finds
Evidence of
Mediaeval
Shell Middens
Sanderling
Scars are rare, cobble &
boulder dominated
intertidal habitats.
Chapel Hills
Beck Road
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Great
Crested
Newt
Bass
Grayling Butterfly
Violet Pit
The Moors
Bombing
Decoy
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Betty Pit
Mill
Breast
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Ringed Plover
Merlin
Barn Owl
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Natterjack Toad
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Oystercatcher
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AND1 FAST INCOMING
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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.
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Ship Wreck ‘Anastasi’ 1909
Lost Christmas day 1946
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Natterjack
Toad
Breeding
Oystercatchers &
Ringed Plovers
on upper shore
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Sandscale
Farm
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Dragonfly
Housethwaite
Hill
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Disabled Access Facilities
1846
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Fu
Rita Pit
Peggy Pit
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Parking
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From the 1st March through to the 31st
July dogs must be kept on a short lead no
more than two metres.
Shelduck
Duddon
Sands
SPA/RAMSAR
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Sand Dunes
in
Bus Route
on
Off -Shore
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Wind Farm
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Basking Sharks
Marram
Grass
Wet Meadow
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Grass-of-Parnassus
Kathleen Pit
Ethel Pit
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Wild Animal Park
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WC
Kiosk
Sandscale Cottages
Round-leaved
Wintergreen
Sanderling
Nigel Pit
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Natural
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Key
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North Walney National
Bronze Age &
Neolithic Site
Holy
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Former
Iron Ore Mines
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National
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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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Sea Holly
Sandscale Haws is one of the finest sites
for sand dune flowers in the country.
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Access to Beach &
Natterjack Breeding Ponds
(Boardwalks)
Railway
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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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Flounder
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(Built & operated by several different companies)
A590
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One of the most beautiful
Beaches in the Country: fine sands
& views of the Lakeland Mountains
Disused Slag Banks
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The Largest Off-Shore Wind Farm in the World
Now sits off the Walney Coast.
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30 of the World’s Largest Wind
Turbines - 156m High 661 Tonnes
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WIND FARM 2011
Sited 10km off Walney Island
Restharrow
Piel Ferry
Spearhead
find
Pier
Hide
Foulney Island
South Walney N
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An Important Breeding Site for Gulls.
Visited by many other migrating
birds inc. song birds & waders
265 Bird Species Recorded on the
Reserve
The
Spit
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Dogs are not allowed in the breeding
season, and should be kept on a lead
at all times.
1
Access to Foulney Island Reserve is
restricted to paths & marked trails
during the Breeding Season (May to
June) to stop disturbance to breeding
birds.
NO DOGS ALLOWED
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Oyster
Farm
Ponds
Bay
Hide
Haws
Point
Kilometre
Mile
1
Lighthouse
Searchlight
Emplacement
Groyne
Hide
(Sat on
Pill Box)
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Important Breeding Site for Common,
Arctic & Little Terns. Visited by many
other migrating birds including large
numbers of wintering knot, dunlin,
oystercatcher & curlew.
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Lesser Black Backed Gull
Herring Gull
1
Eider Duck
Shelduck
Greater Black Backed Gull
Oystercatcher
Mallard
Moorhen
Coot
Wheatear
Redstart
Willow Warbler
HMS Invincible 1973: Barrow’s largest Naval surface ship
Goldcrest