Secret Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness has many secrets hidden in plain sight, from its earliest history to the present day. The land where ‘the lakes meet the sea’ provides an ancient rural backdrop revealing mysteries and tales wrapped in the mists of time, from mysterious monastic murder to raids by Robert the Bruce. It was a place popular with the Romantics; William Wordsworth visited Furness Abbey and allegedly c...