Barrow-in-Furness (gbr)

Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness ranks 3,383rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mishima, Shizuoka, Częstochowa, and Dover, Delaware. Memorable people born in Barrow-in-Furness include Glenn Cornick, Emlyn Hughes, and Gary Stevens. Memorable people who died in Barrow-in-Furness include Ron Staniforth. Barrow-in-Furness has been the birth place of many soccer players, and musicians and the death place of many soccer players. Barrow-in-Furness is located in United Kingdom.

Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county 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. In 2023, the borough merged with Eden and South Lakeland districts to form a new unitary authority: Westmorland and Furness. At the tip of the Furness peninsula, close to the Lake District, it is bordered by Morecambe Bay, the Duddon Estuary and the Irish Sea. In 2021, Barrow's population was 55,489, making it the second largest urban area in Cumbria after Carlisle, and the largest in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority. Read more on Wikipedia