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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 ]
Hindpool: Mark [15] 1989 CoE: Original church completed in 1877. Restored after WWII bombing. [16] St Mary of Furness, Barrow: Hindpool: Mary [17] 1858 Roman Catholic: II [18] Our Lady of Furness Parish The spire of the church was added in 1888. [19] Hartington St Methodist Church Hindpool [6] 1874 Methodist: SW Cumbria United Area
Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1867 and merged with Dalton-in-Furness Urban District in 1974 to form the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness.
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Cumbria in North West England.All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Cumbria with Lancashire as a sub-region of the North West Region, with the existing seat of Morecambe and Lunesdale extending into southern Cumbria to create a cross-county boundary constituency.
The area covered by the district was at the edge of the Furness peninsula. It jolted into the Irish Sea, being north of Morecambe Bay and south of the Duddon Estuary.The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the former county borough of Barrow-in-Furness and the Dalton-in-Furness urban district from the administrative county of Lancashire.
Barrow Island is an area and former electoral ward of Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England.Originally separate from the British mainland, land reclamation in the 1860s saw the northern fringes of the island connected to Central Barrow.
The Barrow Jute Works was a jute and flax mill located in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire (now Cumbria), England during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1] The mill was built for the Barrow and Calcutta Jute Company which was founded by James Ramsden in 1870 in an attempt to diversify Barrow's economy which was heavily focused on iron and ...