Barrow In Furness, England
Barrow-in-Furnace
"Where Britain's Submarines Are Born, and Nobody Escapes"
Official Coat of Arms
A shield bearing a nuclear submarine rampant, emerging from a dry dock beneath a sky the colour of wet slate, flanked by two cranes clutching pints from the last open pub. The motto beneath reads 'Isolata Sed Formidabilis' — Isolated But Formidable.
TripAdvisor Review
★★★☆☆ 3/5
"Went to visit my cousin who works at the shipyard and honestly the Dock Museum was better than expected, real hidden gem. That said the town centre felt like everyone had already left for Ulverston and forgot to tell me, and finding somewhere open past 6pm was a genuine quest. The Furness Peninsula scenery on the drive in is stunning though, shame about the drive back out through the same industrial estate three times because I got lost. Three stars for the submarines, minus two for everything else."— DerekFromDoncaster_NeverAgain
Property Listing
A charming end-of-peninsula residence offering unparalleled access to world-class submarine engineering and a bracing sense of splendid isolation from the rest of Cumbria. Ideal for the buyer who values a short commute to the dockyard over a long one to literally anywhere else.
Twinned With
Sellafield — Both are proudly built around enormous, faintly terrifying industrial facilities that dominate the local skyline and conversation.
Supporting Evidence
Barrow-in-Furness builds the UK's nuclear submarines at the BAE Systems shipyard, meaning this one town on a peninsula effectively holds the keys to Britain's entire nuclear deterrent.