The 'Barrow Way' is a long-distance walking trail which follows the original towpath of the river. It is one of Ireland's most scenic long distance trails but remains largely undiscovered. Furness Enterprise – Fast Moving Consumer Goods". Furness Enterprise. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007 . Retrieved 20 August 2007. Derived from the Old Norse word for a burial mound ‘ hof‘ or ‘barrow’, which gave the Sussex town of Hove its name, The Barrow Club was conceived on Palmeira Square, the historic heart of the town.

Local history and heritage". Barrow Borough Council. Archived from the original on 9 June 2007 . Retrieved 10 June 2007. Freeman, TW (1966). The Conurbations of Great Britain (Seconded.). Manchester: The University Press. p.239. Several notables in Art and Literature have come from Barrow. Artist Keith Tyson, the 2002 Turner Prize winner, was born in nearby Ulverston, attended the Barrow-in-Furness College of Engineering and worked at the then VSEL shipyard. [160] Constance Spry, the author and florist who revolutionised interior design in the 1930s, and 1940s, moved to the town with her son Anthony during World War I to work as a welfare supervisor. [161] Peter Purves, later a Blue Peter presenter, began his acting career with 2 years as a member of the Renaissance Theatre Company at the town's Her Majesty's Theatre. [162] Transport [ edit ] Road [ edit ] Walney Bridge (officially Jubilee Bridge) links Barrow Island to Walney IslandThere is a small chance that roads, bridges and railway lines could close, with delays and cancellations to bus, train, ferry services and flights Iron Mining". Industries of Cumbria. Archived from the original on 2 July 2007 . Retrieved 10 June 2007. The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: A Study in Elite Migration. Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780748679928 . Retrieved 1 April 2015. a b "Appendix on unemployment as part of report into British Aerospace PLC proposed merger with VSEL" (PDF). Competition Commission. 23 May 1995. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2007 . Retrieved 31 August 2007.

Ball, Jamie (8 July 2018). "Going with the flow on the River Barrow: Could this really be just 1.5 hours from Dublin?". Independent.ie. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020 . Retrieved 31 January 2020.

Barrow was the largest town in the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness [49] and the largest settlement in the peninsula of Furness. The borough was the direct inheritor of the municipal and county borough charters given to the town in the late 19th century. [50] Historically it is part of the hundred of Lonsdale 'north of the sands' in the historic county boundaries of Lancashire. [51] From the 1974 local government reforms until 2023, the town was within the administrative county of Cumbria. On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished [52] and became an unparished area. It still forms a part of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council formed the 'lower' tier of local government under Cumbria County Council. [53] Since the 2011 local election, the Labour Party has had overall control of the borough council, while the Borough elected six Labour and five Conservative Party councillors at the 2017 Cumbria County election. Until 2023 the town, along with Walney Island, was unparished and formed the bulk of the wards which made the entire borough's area. The mayor and deputy mayor of Barrow were elected annually, and held the roles of chairman and vice-chairman of Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council. [54] The borough and former county borough of Barrow-in-Furness were served by 107 mayors, beginning with Sir James Ramsden in 1867 and continuing through to incumbent 2022 mayor Helen Wall. [54] A second copy of a Barrows brother will no longer appear in the tunnels if there is one already spawned nearby. Conservation Areas in the Borough". Barrow Borough Council. Archived from the original on 23 November 2012 . Retrieved 9 June 2013. Drakan's medallion, obtained from the The Branches of Darkmeyer quest, has a teleport directly to Barrows and it can be used to teleport directly south of the Burgh de Rott bank. An army was led by Domnall ua Néill into Leinster; and he plundered from the Berbha eastwards to the sea; and he carried off a great prey of cattle; and he laid siege to the Norsemen and the Leinstermen for two months. On this occasion were slain Fionn, son of Goirmghilla; Dunghal, son of Dunghal Ua Riagain; Ronan, son of Bruadar, son of Duibhghilla, and other nobles of the Leinstermen along with them. History [ edit ]