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The 45-Acre Barrow Park is the largest and most centrally located man-made park in the town with smaller parks including Channelside Haven, Hindpool Urban Park and Vickerstown Park. There are also 25 council-owned playgrounds and 15 allotments.
Hindpool Retail Park is the only one of the four retail parks to have increased its number of units since opening. Next and the former Brantano were built in 2005 on the site of a former women's institute that straddled the retail park, while a smaller building was constructed within the park itself in 2015 to house Costa Coffee and Subway .
Hindpool is an area and electoral ward of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It is bordered by Barrow Island , Central Barrow , Ormsgill , Parkside and the Walney Channel , [ 1 ] the local population stood at 5,851 in 2011. [ 2 ]
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There are 274 listed buildings in the former Borough of Barrow-in-Furness (now part of Westmorland and Furness) , with about 70% in Barrow-in-Furness itself. The 2015 Heritage Index formed by the Royal Society of Arts and the Heritage Lottery Fund placed the Borough as seventh highest of 325 English districts with an especially high score relating to industrial heritage assets. [1]
Central Park, one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, [1] is surrounded by the skyscrapers of Manhattan in New York City.. An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a city park, municipal park (North America), public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (), is a park or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and other incorporated places that ...
The most iconic feature of Barrow Park is the town's principal cenotaph; commemorating almost 900 Barrovians who lost their lives in various wars. [5] The memorial is located at the highest point of the park on the site of a late Bronze Age fort offering 360-degree views of Barrow.
The Jute Works itself was designed by architects Paley and Austin and occupied over 12-acres with a 580 feet (177 m) facade on Hindpool Road and 360 feet (110 m) along Abbey Road. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The mill was served by its own railway station on a branch of the Furness Railway which connected it to the town's docks, steelworks and cornmill.