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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 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.
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.
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 .
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 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.
The seat was established by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and covers the southwest part of Cumbria.The largest town in the constituency, Barrow-in-Furness, grew on the back of the shipbuilding industry and is now the site of the BAE Systems nuclear submarine and shipbuilding operation.