North Scale

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North Scale
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Post town BARROW-IN-FURNESS
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54°07′11″N3°15′18″W / 54.11978°N 3.25502°W / 54.11978; -3.25502

North Scale is a village and one of only four settlements on the Isle of Walney, Cumbria, England. It is the northernmost settlement, lying a mile north of Vickerstown.

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History

North Scale was first identified as an agricultural settlement, owned by Furness Abbey, in 1247. [1]

As a Parliamentarian stronghold in the English Civil War it was briefly sieged by Royalists. [2]

In 1865, the Crown Inn opened in North Scale. [3]

Before the Jubilee Bridge to Walney Island opened in 1908, people crossing on foot at low tide would arrive near North Scale. A causeway was built to make crossing possible for longer periods. [4]

Modern development

The village grew with the development of the Red Ley estate in the 1960s and the Barnes estate in the 1970s. [5]

North Scale has a community centre, and is linked by bus services to the rest of Walney Island, and to Barrow-in-Furness, via the Jubilee Bridge.

The village is home to the Lakes Gliding Club. [6]

North Scale is mentioned alongside Biggar in the folk song 'Wa'ney Island Cockfight' as the origin of one of the groups of cockfighters. [7] [8] The song has been recorded by Fiddler's Dram and Martin Wyndham-Reed.

References

  1. ↑ "www.walney-island.com".
  2. ↑ Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby 1644. cited in Barrow and District Barnes 1951
  3. ↑ "www.walney-island.com".
  4. ↑ "The Lakes Counties: A Bridge Too Far?". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
  5. ↑ "www.walney-island.com".
  6. ↑ "Home".
  7. ↑ Allan, Sue (2017). "FOLK SONG IN CUMBRIA: A DISTINCTIVE REGIONAL REPERTOIRE?" (PDF).
  8. ↑ Wyndham-Reed, Martin. English Sporting Ballads, Broadside BRO128.

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