Borough of Barrow-in-Furness

Borough of Barrow-in-Furness
Shown within Cumbria
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	North West England
Admin. County:	Cumbria
Traditional County:	Lancashire
Area: - Total	Ranked 272nd 77.87 km²
Admin. HQ:	Barrow-in-Furness
ONS code:	16UC
Demographics
Population: - Total - Density	Ranked 311th 71,980 Ranked 147th / km²
Ethnicity (2004 estimate)	Ranked 333rd in 2001 95.17% White British 1.67% White Other 1.21% Mixed Race 0.63% S.Asian 0.57% Chinese 0.54% Afro-Carib. 0.21% Other
Politics
The crest of Barrow-in-Furness features a bee and an arrow and is an example of a "punning" coat-of-arms File:Arms-barrow.jpg. Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council http://www.barrowbc.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.31
Control:
MP:	John Hutton

Barrow-in-Furness is a local government district and borough in the administrative county of Cumbria, and the historic County of Lancashire, England. It is named after its main town, Barrow-in-Furness. Other settlements include Dalton-in-Furness, Roose and Askam-in-Furness. It is the smallest borough in the county, but is the most densely populated, with 924 people per square kilometre. The population was 71,980 in 2001 [1]

The area covered by the district is at the edge of the Furness peninsula. It jolts into the Irish Sea, being north of Morecambe Bay and south of the Duddon Estuary. This area is still part of the historic County Palatine of Lancashire but is no longer governed by Lancashire County Council.

The current borough was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the former county borough of Barrow-in-Furness and the Dalton-in-Furness urban district.

In 2006, its council was fined £125,000 for violation of health and safety laws that lead to the deaths of seven people in the UK's worst outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. The council also became the UK's first public body to be charged with corporate manslaughter, but was found not guilty.

Areas/ Wards of Barrow Borough Council

Barrow-in-Furness total population 71,980

Barrow Island Ward 2,606

Central Ward 5,585

Dalton North Ward 6,599

Dalton South Ward 6,200

Hawcoat Ward 5,308

Hindpool Ward 5,515

Newbarns Ward 5,913

Ormsgill Ward 5,961

Parkside Ward 5,742

Risedale Ward 5,663

Roosecote Ward 5,501

Walney North Ward 5,604

Walney South Ward 5,784

History subsequent to the formation of the borough

• 1974 - The Borough of Barrow-in-Furness is formed
• 1983 - Barrow's once booming iron and steelworks industries disappeared, after being the worlds largest for many decades [2]
• 1985 - Natural Gas was discovered in Morecambe Bay, with the products processed onshore at the gas terminal in Rampside, south of the town [3]
• 1991] - After the end of the Cold War, Barrow's shipyards saw a decline in demand for military ships and submarines [4]
• 2002 - Barrow suffers from the worst ever Legionnaires' Disease outbreak, with seven deaths and 172 cases
• 2007 - Barrow begins major regeneration projects [5], as well as expanding the already record breaking Shipyard [6].

Barrow compared

Population, Area and Density

Region	Population	Area	Population Density
Barrow-in-Furness	71,980	77.87 km²	900 / km²
Cumbria	498,800	6,768 km²	73 / km²
United Kingdom	60,209,500	244,820 km²	243 / km²

Ethnic Diversity

Region	White British	White Other	Mixed race	Asian	Afro-Caribbean	Chinese	Other
Barrow-in-Furness	95.17%	1.67%	1.21%	0.63%	0.57%	0.54%	0.21%
Cumbria	98.00%	0.90%	0.62%	0.23%	0.13%	0.20%	0.10%
United Kingdom	85.70%	6.50%	1.20%	3.60%	2.30%	0.40%	0.80%

Religion

Religion	Barrow-in-Furness	United Kingdom
Christian	81.0%	71.6%
Muslim	0.3%	2.7%
Hindu	0.1%	1.0%
Jedi	N/A	0.7%
Sikh	0.0%	0.6%
Jewish	0.0%	0.5%
Buddhist	0.1%	0.3%
Other religion	0.1%	0.3%
Not stated	7.6%	7.3%
No religion	10.8%	15.5%
Total religious	81.6%	76.8%