Barrow-in-Furness is a Victorian shipbuilding town in Cumbria, in north-west England, with the sea on three sides and the Lake District on the other. More about Barrow-in-Furness →
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Ships berth alongside in Barrow's working cargo and shipbuilding port. The Dock Museum and the railway station are each about 2 km on foot, and Bowness-on-Windermere in the Lake District is about 42 km by road.
2 km · ~25 min by car
The Dock Museum is on the waterfront west of the town centre, a walk of about 2 km and 25 minutes from the berth.
Typical prices, approximate. Fares change with demand, traffic and time of day.
Typical prices, approximate. Fares change with demand, traffic and time of day.
The Dock Museum and the railway station are each about 2 km on foot, about 25 minutes. Furness Abbey is about 5 km by road and Bowness-on-Windermere, in the Lake District, about 42 km. No official taxi fare is published.
Lunch £9.99-19 in town.
Barrow-in-Furness is a Victorian shipbuilding town in Cumbria, in north-west England, with the sea on three sides and the Lake District on the other. Ships berth alongside in a working cargo port. Wide streets of sandstone buildings date from the town's 19th-century prosperity as a major shipbuilding centre, and submarines are still built here. The Dock Museum tells that story in a former graving dock, the red sandstone ruins of Furness Abbey lie in a wooded valley nearby, and South Walney Nature Reserve has Cumbria's only grey seal colony.
Museum in a 19th-century graving dock telling the industrial and social story of the Furness area, from shipbuilding and the steel industry to local history from the Ice Age to the present day, including the submarines, airships, warships and liners built in the town. Free admission.
Red sandstone ruins in a wooded valley, about 5 km by road from the berth. Founded by Stephen, later King of England, it became the second richest Cistercian abbey in England; the remains include the tower and east end of the great church, the chapter house and almost the entire east range of the cloister. Admission £10 (adult).
Reserve at the southern tip of Walney Island, with views across Morecambe Bay and three waymarked trails. It is home to Cumbria's only grey seal colony and is a noted place for bird watching. Admission £3 (adult).