Barrow-in-Furness

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Barrow is a Cumbrian town on the Furness Peninsula with a population of around 50,000 with a slightly larger borough of 70,000 and one of England's windiest settlements. It is the submarine building centre of the United Kingdom. Historically it was part of Lancashire but it was transferred to Cumbria in 1974. Although its name comes from English and Old Norse, it has a similar name in Cumbric called Barrai-yn-Ffwrthys.


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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow-in-Furness
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Coordinates:   54°7'4"N   3°12'46"W

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  • It's "Barrai-yn-Ffwrthys" not barrow in furness, we are cumbrian - we must fight for these things!
  • I have edited this out because there is zero evidence looking on the internet of either of those names being used. Cumbria doesn't have its own language, and the English territory of Wikimapia is strictly for marking in English only.
  • Hello everyone; I'm interested in hearing you feedback on this subject. Since saxon people astablised themselvs in Cumbria about 1,000 years ago, the county's norse and celtic genetic backgronds have been more or less denied, however if you look more carfefully into Cumbria's placenames and history you will find a lot of evidence of the old celtic langauge called Cumbric. Cumbric gradually evolved from medievil welsh, as the areas we now call Lancashire and Cumbria(cumbric: Sîr Gairivryn and Cumbri/Cwmbru) were once part of the celtic sub-kingdom of Rheged. Rheged was then broken up, leaving the strongest kingdom of Cumbri (what we today call Cumbria) to fight against the saxon invaders. Cumbria's king known as Urien sucessfully faught off the saxon invaders, and if it wasn't for his unexpected assasination - present day Cumbria would probably be speaking it's own celtic language as well as English, and would probably have conserved it's own celtic traditions, possibly even owing it independance from England. I bring this point up to state this largely unknown and important piece of Cumbrian history. So the question is - what now? Well our language 'is' and has been dead for the past 900 years, however at least three reconstructions of the language are currently taking place, two being mainly based on welsh and with welsh spelling, while the other (Alex's) taking upon a different spelling system. The point of this message is not to ask for you the Cumbrian public's participation, but simply to say that Cumbria did have a language and celtic culture, and if we can preserve Wordwsworth's and Beatrix Potter's history, then why not our moore ancient history as well? Therefore Cumbria does have it's own language as in reply to WikMapper, but no-one actully speaks it apart from myself and a few others + the language isn't official!
  • My mistake. I thought it was some kind of joke. I was also wrong about "Strictly English Only", as in Wales many places are marked bi-lingually in English and Welsh (this has even crept into England as well). However, I didn't think it was best to add on a name which wasn't in common use, but just to mention it in the description. Barrow isn't really a Cumbrian town either - it used to be in Lancashire until the 1970s. Good luck with reconstructing the language.
  • Barrow-in-Furness is a very nice English city.
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