Jubilee Bridge, the main link onto Walney Island from Barrow-in-Furness and Devonshire Dock Hall, where the Trident Submarines are built.
Walney Island is the eighth largest Marine Island in England. It lies in the Irish Sea to the west of the Furness peninsula in Cumbria. It is part of the borough of Barrow-in-Furness to which it has been connected by the Jubilee Bridge since 1908. Until the bridge was built a ferry was used. The island is around eleven miles long and less than a mile wide at its widest point. Its total area is approximately 5 square miles. The island was developed to house workers of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd with an area of the island retaining the name Vickerstown today.
Jubilee Bridge, the main link onto Walney Island from Barrow-in-Furness and Devonshire Dock Hall, where the Trident Submarines are built.
Walney Channel, the Lake District Fells on the skyline.....
.....across the Channel, Barrow Island.....
West Shore, looking towards Black Combe....
Wind Surfers....
Other activities.....
Black Combe from Earnse Point.......
.......from Scarth Channel.
.........and the Coniston Fells.
The south of Walney near White Horse Scar....
Over Vickerstown to the Lakeland Fells....
...and Devonshire Dock.
The Cumbria Coastal Way and the Cistercian Way run along the opposite side of the channel.
Isle of Man Ferry passing by Barrow Offshore Wind Farm.
On the seashore a tribute to a local man.....
