Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow Island
Panorama of Barrow Island viewed from Walney Channel
Barrow Island shown within Barrow-in-Furness
Population2,616 (2011)
Unitary authority
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBARROW-IN-FURNESS
Postcode districtLA
Dialling code01229
PoliceCumbria
FireCumbria
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament
List of places
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England
Cumbria

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 Island is also bound to the south and east by the town's dock system and to the west by Walney Channel. The Ward population taken at the 2011 census was 2,616.[1]

The ward itself was combined with Central and Hindpool wards in April 2023 following formation of the new Westmorland and Furness Local Authority and be named 'Old Barrow'.

  1. ^ "Barrow-in-Furness ward population 2011". Retrieved 25 January 2016.