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    The 2010 Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council in Cumbria, England...
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  • Borough Council election 1982 Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council election 1983 Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council election 1984 Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council...
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  • Thumbnail for Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)
    2024. Since its inception in 1885, the constituency has been centred on the town of Barrow-in-Furness, at the tip of the Furness peninsula. Over the intervening...
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    a municipal borough in 1867 and merged with Dalton-in-Furness Urban District in 1974 to form the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness. The borough was merged into...
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    Elections to Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council was held on 1 May 2008. The whole of the council was up for election, with the number of councillors falling...
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    Walney Island (category Barrow-in-Furness)
    end of Morecambe Bay in the Irish Sea. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it is part of Barrow-in-Furness, separated from the...
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  • Whitehaven and Workington (part) Containing electoral wards from Barrow-in-Furness Barrow and Furness (part) Containing electoral wards from Carlisle Carlisle...
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    in 2007, and Cumbria went into consultation, with opposition coming from the district councils which would be abolished: Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness...
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    Cumbria (category Articles with dead external links from September 2010)
    Lonsdale or Furness part of Lancashire, usually referred to as "Lancashire North of the Sands", (including the county borough of Barrow-in-Furness) and, from...
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    Seascale (category Borough of Copeland)
    until the coming of the Furness Railway in 1850. This ran from Whitehaven to Barrow in Furness. Some small development took place in the wake of this, but...
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  • South Lakes Safari Zoo (category Tourist attractions in Barrow-in-Furness)
    proximity to the Lake District, though it lies entirely within the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness on the outskirts of Dalton. After an initial rapid growth, the...
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    "Homepage – Colchester Borough Council". Colchester-regen.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2010. "Home". Love Myland...
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  • Charter trustee (category Articles with dead external links from September 2010)
    the status of a borough or city has been abolished, until such time as a civil parish council or in larger settlements, a town council is established....
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  • Following this, in elections to Cumbria County Council in 2009, Jim Hamezeian was elected to serve for Ormsgill ward in Barrow-in-Furness. After that, the...
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    Copeland (UK Parliament constituency) (category Borough of Copeland)
    2024 general election. Keswick was included in the new constituency of Penrith and Solway, and Millom was transferred to Barrow and Furness. Copeland was...
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    Millom (category Borough of Copeland)
    north of Barrow-in-Furness (23 mi or 37 km by road) and 26 mi (42 km) south of Whitehaven. Millom was constructed as a new town, beginning in 1866 and...
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    2004 North East England devolution referendum (category 2004 elections in the United Kingdom)
    Redcliffe-Maud Report in 1969. This proposed authorities for North Cumbria based in Carlisle, and one for Morecambe Bay covering Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster...
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    rail connections from Workington railway station to Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness, with occasional through trains to Lancaster and Preston. Workington...
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  • Macclesfield Tatton Warrington North Warrington South Weaver Vale Barrow and Furness Carlisle Copeland Penrith and The Border Westmorland and Lonsdale...
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    Mockerkin (category Villages in Cumbria)
    (52 km) south-west of Carlisle and 48.2 miles (78 km) to the north of Barrow-in-Furness. The name probably derives from the hill-top of a man called Corcán...
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    Non-metropolitan districts with borough status are known as boroughs, able to appoint a mayor and refer to itself as a borough council. Some shire counties now...
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  • Rosalind Mitchell (category People from Barrow-in-Furness)
    to Christine Burns of Press For Change. She was born in 1954 as David Spry in Barrow-in-Furness. Her parents were Moira Spry (née Storey) (1924–2016)...
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    local elections took place on Thursday 2 May 2019, with 248 English local councils, six directly elected mayors in England, and all 11 local councils in Northern...
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    North West England (category Articles with unsourced statements from October 2010)
    St Helens Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College, Cheadle Furness College, Barrow-in-Furness Hazel Grove High School Sixth Form, Stockport Holy Cross College...
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  • Thumbnail for 1999 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 6 May 1999. One-third of the council was up for election. Prior to the election, the Liberal Democrats had gained...
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    Whitehaven (category Populated coastal places in Cumbria)
    Park in Cumberland, Cumbria, England. It lies by road 38 miles (61 km) south-west of Carlisle and 45 miles (72 km) to the north of Barrow-in-Furness. It...
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  • Thumbnail for 1996 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
    Elections to Wigan council were held on Thursday, 2 May 1996, with an extra vacancy in Abram to be filled. Going into the election there were noticeably...
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  • Matthew Gordon-Banks (category Councillors in Merseyside)
    MP for Barrow and Furness, and from 1989 he was a senior adviser on the Middle-East affairs for LBJ Ltd. In the 1987 general election, Gordon-Banks was...
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    Town Council formed". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 9 May 2024. "Darwen town council election results 2009". Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. 2009...
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    Alaska (redirect from Alaska borough)
    Archived from the original on June 3, 2010. Retrieved June 2, 2010. Hersher, Rebecca (December 1, 2016). "Barrow, Alaska, Changes Its Name Back To Its...
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