Barrow Park

Barrow Park is a 45-acre public park in Barrow-in-Furness, accessed from Abbey Road, Park Drive, Park Avenue and Greengate Street.

"A new public park for Barrow in Furness was designed by Thomas Mawson in 1900. Part of the proposed park was fenced off in 1902 and opened as a public space, but it was not until 1907 that the council decided to proceed with the laying out of the park. The Borough Surveyor produced a new plan based on Mawson’s original design, which was largely implemented between 1908 and 1915 including: a lake, an upper and lower shelter, three bowling greens, a bandstand with seated terraces, tennis courts and a refreshment pavilion. The pre-existing Piel House was incorporated into the new park and provided accommodation for the head gardener and park keeper. In 1920 the First World War memorial was added as the focal point of the park, and in 1924 the boating lake was extended to the S and provided with a pair of bridges. In 1965 the bandstand was demolished. The park underwent restoration in 2002, when major work included the erection of a new bandstand to designs of the original, the replacement of the 1960s gates and piers at the inserted NW entrance with those based on an original (unbuilt) design by Mawson, and the restoration of the lower shelter. The park won the Landscape Institute’s Heritage and Conservation Award in 2007...." (Historic England)