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Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow Island
locality:-   Barrow-in-Furness
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   island
1Km square:-   SD2068
10Km square:-   SD26

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BPS81.jpg  Aerial view.
"THE FURNESS RAILWAY COMPANY'S DOCKS. / PORT OF BARROW."  courtesy the Dock Museum
evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Old Barrow
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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Ws02SD16.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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GAR2SD26.jpg
area 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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hearsay:-  
 The island was owned by John Wood, 1685:-
"who practised physic, was considered by the illiterate as a necromancer or cunning man, and various stories have been related of his skill in the black art ..."
The island was sold to the Michaelson Family, 1700. And bought by the Furness Railway, 1863.
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