• The Furness Abbey Hotel was demolished in 1953, having been bombed in May 1941. Its site now forms the car park to Furness Abbey and the museum. The station...
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    Abbey House on Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England is a Neo-Elizabethan H-plan mansion designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1914...
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    Furness Abbey is a former railway station in the Barrow-in-Furness area of the Furness Peninsula, England. Furness Abbey Station was situated to the north...
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  • Crewe Arms Hotel, Crewe Midland Hotel, Derby Furness Abbey Hotel, Furness Abbey Station Hotel, Holyhead Queens Hotel, Keighley Queen's Hotel, Leeds Adelphi...
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    Ages, Barrow was a small hamlet within the parish of Dalton-in-Furness with Furness Abbey, now on the outskirts of the town, controlling the local economy...
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    rural in nature. Sites along Abbey Road include Dalton town centre, Furness General Hospital, Barrow Park, Barrow-in-Furness railway station, Barrow town...
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    Barrow Blitz (category History of Barrow-in-Furness)
    anti-aircraft defences was in the Furness Abbey Hotel, a sandstone building next to the former railway station by the ruins of the abbey, in a valley screened by...
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    converting the former gatehouse of Furness Abbey into the Furness Abbey Hotel, designing the North Western Hotel in Morecambe, a new charity school for...
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  • 12th-century Furness Abbey and Market Street, the Medieval centre of Dalton-in-Furness. The oldest listed building in Barrow is Furness Abbey, dated 1127...
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    The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel is a 4-star luxury hotel located on Abbey Road in Barrow-in-Furness, England. The building itself was built in 1871 and was...
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    The Co-operative Building on Abbey Road in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England is a former department store. Constructed by the Barrow Co-operative Society...
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  •  103. Pevsner 2002, p. 57. Pevsner 2002, p. 131. Historic England, "Grange Hotel, Grange-over-Sands (1269657)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved...
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    (1847), to plan the conversion of a disused manor house into the Furness Abbey Hotel (1847), and to arrange the remodelling of Hornby Castle (1847–52)...
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    An early commission was to convert a former manor house into the Furness Abbey Hotel for the railway (1847–48). He later designed a large country house...
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    the conversion of a manor house close to the ruins of Furness Abbey into the Furness Abbey Hotel starting in 1847. Other secular commissions around this...
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  • in Hietun, Rosse and Hougenai (now Hawcoat, Roose and Walney) 1123 - Furness Abbey is established 1190 - Barrow Island from which Barrow takes its name...
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    The Custom House in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England is a former government building, having housed the customs offices for trade handled at the Ports...
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  • Inn Mount Haven Hotel, Marazion Nansloe Manor The Sloop Inn Tregenna Castle Abbey House, Barrow-in-Furness Britannia Inn The Bull Hotel, Sedbergh Dalston...
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  • "How Downton Abbey got Nellie Melba all wrong" Archived 11 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine, The Daily Telegraph, 7 October 2013 Furness, Hannah (29...
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  • Roa Island (category Islands of Furness)
    steamers sailed to Fleetwood. The pier connected with the Furness Railway line to Kirkby via Furness Abbey, making use of the causeway. Initially the line was...
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    from Furness Abbey. It is a picturesque ruin adjoining Calder Abbey House, a largely 19th-century house which incorporates some remains of the abbey. On...
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    of Barrow-in-Furness, England. Stretching almost one mile from east to west it connects two major A roads as well as intersecting Abbey Road roughly midway...
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  • 1989 after all services had been transferred to the modern Furness General Hospital off Abbey Road. Despite its listed status the entire complex was demolished...
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    Cluny Abbey (French: [klyni]; French: Abbaye de Cluny, formerly also Cluni or Clugny; Latin: Abbatia Cluniacensis) is a former Benedictine monastery in...
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    Grand Resort Bad Ragaz (category Hotels in Switzerland)
    wellness hotel with its own thermal spring and medical centre located in Bad Ragaz in Eastern Switzerland. In 1242, hunters from the Pfäfers Abbey discovered...
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  • House Mount Edgcumbe House Port Eliot Whiteford House Abbey House, Barrow-in-Furness The Abbey, Skirwith Appleby Castle Armathwaite Hall Ashton House...
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  • Thumbnail for Eric Gill works at the Midland Hotel, Morecambe
    Midland Hotel itself, the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool and the Royal Scot train. Among other features represented are Blackpool Tower, Furness Abbey, Lancaster...
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    Coniston, Cumbria (category Furness)
    Coniston is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of...
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    Oxford Chambers (category Buildings and structures in Barrow-in-Furness)
    Duke of Edinburgh Hotel and the neighbouring Cooke's Building. Listed buildings in Barrow-in-Furness "Oxford Chambers, Barrow-in-Furness". English Heritage...
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    civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. The village is in the historic county of Westmorland...
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