England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 55,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Barrow-in-Furness, with about 64 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Nearest airport
- LPL90 km · Liverpool John Lennon Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness, commonly known as Barrow, is an industrial port town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness local government area of Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, Barrow is at the tip of the Furness peninsula, 24 miles (39 km) south-west of Kendal and 18 miles (29 km) west of Lancaster.
Until 1974 Barrow was an exclave of the county of Lancashire, separated by Morecambe Bay. Historically that came about because stagecoaches going north couldn't climb the Lakeland hills, so they crossed the sands of the bay and wound around via Ulverston to Furness then on up the Cumbria coast. Then in the 19th century iron ore was discovered in the area. This led to mining, steel-making and shipbuilding, the railway was built, and Barrow became forged economically to the metal-bashing cities of Lancashire. It was an important base for navy ship-building, especially submarines.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Barrow-in-Furness
See
- Dock Museum
- Piel Island
- Roanhead
- Furness Abbey
- Dalton
- South Lakes Safari Zoo
Do
- Hawcoat Park Sports Club
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Barrow-in-Furness
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Barrow in Furness hotel | 64 | 4.3/5 800 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Barrow-in-Furness
23 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel | 1871 | 0.7 km |
| Abbey House | 3.5 km | |
| Imperial Hotel OYO Rooms | 0.2 km | |
| Majestic Hotel | 0.0 km | |
| Black Cock Inn | 18.5 km | |
| Harbour Hotel | 0.4 km | |
| Queen's Arms Hotel | 3.0 km | |
| Red Lion Hotel | 5.7 km | |
| Sun Hotel | 12.7 km | |
| The Ship Inn | 6.3 km | |
| Highfield Hotel | 21.1 km | |
| Lonsdale House Hotel | 12.7 km | |
| New Inn And Attached Buildings | 2.8 km | |
| Old Friends Inn Including Railings To Front Steps | 12.9 km | |
| OYO Hotel Majestic OYO Rooms | 0.0 km | |
| Queens Hotel | 12.8 km | |
| Roa Island Hotel | 5.2 km | |
| Sefton House Hotel | 12.6 km | |
| The Clarence Inn | 6.2 km | |
| The Globe Inn | 12.6 km | |
| Victoria Park Hotel | 1.5 km | |
| Virginia House Hotel | 12.6 km | |
| Wayside Guest Accommodation | 17.7 km |
All 24 hotels in Barrow-in-Furness, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 19 °C; October is the wettest, with about 308 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Barrow-in-Furness: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL), about 90 km from the city centre in a straight line; Isle of Man Airport (IOM, 91 km) and Manchester Airport (MAN, 105 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Trains run hourly from Preston to Barrow via Lancaster, Carnforth, Arnside, Grange-over-Sands and Ulverston; some stop at other halts in the Cartmel and Furness peninsulas. The journey is scenic, sweeping round Morecambe Bay and crossing the Kent and Leven estuaries on viaducts. Change at Preston or Lancaster for fast trains to London, the Midlands and Scotland; these never stop at Carnforth. An hourly train winds north from Barrow along the Cumbrian coast to Carlisle, via some two dozen small places such as Ravenglass, Sellafield, St Bees, Whitehaven, Workington and Wigton.
Getting around
The town centre is easily accessible on foot from the railway station. Stagecoach Cumbria Bus 1 runs west to Walney Island and north to Furness Hospital every 15 min.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
LPL · Liverpool John Lennon Airport
IOM · Isle of Man Airport
MAN · Manchester Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Barrow-in-Furness
Drink
Drinking in Barrow is a drouthy but laid-back northern experience, where locals mingle with out-of-town contractors and navy dockyard workers.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Barrow-in-Furness
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 1 place
of 1 place
Questions
Barrow-in-Furness: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Barrow-in-Furness?
By published guest score: Travelodge Barrow in Furness (4.3 / 5 · 800 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Barrow-in-Furness?
Barrow-in-Furness has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 19 °C; October is the wettest, with about 308 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Barrow-in-Furness?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL), about 90 km from the city centre in a straight line; Isle of Man Airport (IOM, 91 km) and Manchester Airport (MAN, 105 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Barrow-in-Furness?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Barrow-in-Furness
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.