It is counted as one of the Islands of Furness although it has not been a real island since the 1980s when part of the Devonshire Dock was filled in to provide land for the building of Devonshire Dock Hall.
For the visit of Wigan in the Challenge Cup improvements were made and the capacity is now 7,600 (up from 6,500).
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In November 2007, the Cumbria rugby league team had their biggest ever win at Craven Park when they beat the United States national rugby league team 70-0.
Dalton was the birthplace and early home of George Romney in the 1700s as well as his grandson Miles Romney in the early 1800s, both are ancestors of former US-presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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Dalton is also the birthplace of award-winning artist Richard T. Slone and the town in which Sky News presenter Steve Dixon and Turner Prize winner Keith Tyson grew up and attended school.
Furness College, Barrow-in-Furness - A college of further education situated in Barrow-in-Furness (Cumbria).
The Furness Hoard is a hoard of Viking silver coins and other artefacts dating to the 9th and 10th Century that was discovered in Furness, Cumbria, England in May 2011 by an unnamed metal detectorist.
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The hoard has been held at the Dock Museum in Barrow-in-Furness since discovery, and the Dock Museum has indicated that it hopes to acquire the hoard after it has been valued by the Treasure Valuation Committee.
Miles Romney, patriarch of the Romney family, immigrated to the United States from Dalton-in-Furness, England, in the 1840s.
The school has no sixth form, the nearest being at Ulverston Victoria High School, however many choose to go to elsewhere such as Barrow Sixth Form College, Furness College, Barrow-in-Furness or Kendal College.
In 1819 Joseph Crosfield married Elizabeth Goad from the village of Baycliffe in the Furness area of Lancashire.
Benson was the son of John Benson (1684-1766), a salt dealer of Mansriggs, near Ulverston, in Furness.
The submarine Abdül Hamid (also Abdülhamid) was an early steam powered submarine built in England in 1886 at the Barrow Shipyard.
The Preston Baronetcy, of Furness in the County of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of England on 1 April 1644 for George Preston.
Annie, of Scottish descent, was born in Barrow-in-Furness in England in 1920 and as a young girl immigrated to Rochester, NY, via Australia and New Zealand, of which Annie had very fond memories.
It is heavily focused around Salthouse Road which runs through the wards of Risedale and Central Barrow.
(This volume covers the area of the modern administrative county of Cumbria: i.e. the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, and the Furness region, historically part of Lancashire.)
Barrow-in-Furness | Furness | Furness Abbey | Furness Railway | Frank Furness | Deborra-Lee Furness | Furness College, Barrow-in-Furness | Horace Howard Furness | Furness's parody of Barrett's advertising | Christopher Furness, 1st Baron Furness | William Henry Furness III | St. Mary of Furness Roman Catholic Church | Stephen Noel Furness | Sir Stephen Furness, 1st Baronet | Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness | Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness | Furness General Hospital | Dalton-in-Furness | Cleator and Furness Railway | Christopher Furness | Barrow-in-Furness Sixth Form College | Baron Cavendish of Furness |
Alfred William Goldie (December 10, 1920, Coseley, Staffordshire – October 8, 2005, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria) was an English Mathematician.
Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Company at Elswick, Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness, William Beardmore & Company at Dalmuir and the Royal Gun Factory at Woolwich made a total of 29 guns of which 18 would be required for both ships at any time.
It is named after the Cartmel peninsula of "Lancashire north of the sands" which was once known as The Land of Cartmel.
Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Baronet (1843–1916), British politician, MP for Barrow-in-Furness 1892–1906
Important collections include records from the Furness estate office of the Duke of Buccleuch.
People from Cumbria are known as Cumbrians and they speak a variety of the Cumbrian dialect to the north, whilst a Lancashire accent is more prominent in the South (namely Furness, which was once part of Lancashire).
Dalton United F.C., an association football club in Dalton-in-Furness, England
Ed Furness was one of five comic book creators inducted into the Joe Shuster Awards Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame in April 2005.
Christopher Furness bought his shares in the shipyard and made Edward Withy’s brother, Henry Withy, managing director.
They lasted until the late 1920s and early 1930s, performing secondary duties on the home turf, between Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven.
Broadbent is employed by BNFL at Sellafield, and currently resides in Barrow-in-Furness with his wife, Emma and together they have two children, Sophie (born 1999) and Luke (born 2002).
The church is part of the Diocese of Carlisle, Archdeaconry of Westmorland & Furness and the Deanery of Windermere.
It is primarily served by regional express services operated by First TransPennine Express from Manchester Airport via Preston to Barrow-in-Furness.
In 1891, the Furness Line Company of Christopher Furness and Edward Withy and Co. were merged in Hartlepool.
In the early 1090s Lonsdale, Cartmel and Furness were added to Roger's estates to facilitate the defence of the area south of Morecambe Bay from Scottish raiding parties, which travelled round the Cumberland coast and across the bay at low water, rather than through the mountainous regions of the Lake District.
Holker Street, sports stadium located in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England
Sir James Ramsden (1822–1896), British industrialist and former Barrow-in-Furness civic leader
John Bromley (politician) (1876–1945), British trade union leader as General Secretary of the ASLEF 1914-1936 and Labour Party Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness 1924–1931
HMS L25, a British L class submarine built in 1918 by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness .
Simnel's army — mainly Flemish and Irish troops — landed on Piel Island in the Furness area of Lancashire on 5 June 1487 and were joined by some English supporters.
ORP Dzik (Boar) was a U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness.
He had originally planned to go into teaching, training at Alsager College of Education, but began to act with the Barrow-in-Furness Repertory Company instead.
Piel Island, one of the Islands of Furness in northern England
In 1662, following the restoration of Charles II, the lordship of Furness was given to the Duke of Albemarle and this included the castle and parts of the island.
He enjoys Maker's Mark, extra inning baseball, Carly Rae Jepsen, Pitbull, Willie Bloomquist, the song "What Does the Fox say?", breathing heavily as if he just ran up a flight of stairs but didn't while talking on Sports Radio KJR950 with Ian Furness and Jason Puckett, and telling his inspirational slump buster story to all who are down.
She did not serve with the Wilson & Furness-Leyland Line, instead being purchased by the Atlantic Transport Line, who were seeking to replace ships that had been requisitioned as troop transports by the United States government for use in the Spanish-American War.
On Saturday, the Admiralty instructed the Furness Withy people to remove Picton from the harbour and beach her in the Eastern Passage.
Constructed in the yards of Vickers Sons, and Maxim Ltd at Barrow-in-Furness in 1898, Duke of Cornwall had a tonnage of 1724 GRT.
Furness Abbey, a cistercian monastery formally known as St. Mary of Furness on the outskirts of Barrow-in-Furness, England
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St. Mary of Furness Roman Catholic Church, a Catholic church also located in Barrow-in-Furness
A passenger ferry to Liverpool thus commenced from Ulverston canal in 1835, which was later complemented by a service from Barrow-in-Furness to Fleetwood.
Three Valentia prototypes were built by the Vickers Company at their Barrow works (Walney Island perhaps), having been ordered in May 1918 as a potential replacement for the Felixstowe F.5.