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Backbarrow is a
village in the Lake
District National Park in England. It lies on the
River Leven about 5
miles (8 km)
northeast of
Ulverston in Furness...
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settlements on the
Leven are the
villages of
Backbarrow and Greenodd. The river's
steep fall
around Backbarrow allowed industrial use of the
river for the...
- two iron
furnaces near the village: one at
Backbarrow and the
other at Low Wood. The
furnace at
Backbarrow was
supplied from 1711 with iron ore from Low...
- and
brother being partners in the
Backbarrow Company which successfully developed charcoal blast furnaces at
Backbarrow and Leighton. He died in 1737 shortly...
- The
Lakeland Motor Museum is a
museum now
located at
Backbarrow, ****bria,
England which houses a
collection of
classic cars, motorcycles, bicycles, pedal...
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locally quarried limestone, and
gunpowder from the
nearby settlement of
Backbarrow. Sugar, raw
cotton and coal are
listed in
historical do****ents as some...
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Crown Blue in Hull and the
Lancashire Ultramarine Company's
Dolly Blue at
Backbarrow (later
purchased by
Reckitt & Sons) in the
United Kingdom. It was po****r...
- "terrifyingly quick". W112BHG is on
display at the
Lakeland Motor Museum,
Backbarrow, ****bria. On 20 May 2023 the
originally produced Speed 12 was sold in...
- 1764,
followed by
Warsash Furnace in 1869. The last
working furnace at
Backbarrow converted to coke in 1922. In
Western Australia, pig iron was made using...
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stables at
Holker Hall
housed the
Lakeland Motor Museum until its move to
Backbarrow in 2010. In
December 2019,
National Geographic published an
article called...
