Askam-in-furness
Askam as well as Ireleth is a civil parish near Barrow-in-Furness in the region of Cumbria, in North West England. Historically part of Lancashire, it initially included two separate seaside towns with various origins and also backgrounds which, in recent times, have combined to become one continual settlement. The populace of the civil church taken at the 2011 Census was 3,632. Ireleth has its origins as a mediaeval farming village clustered on the hillside ignoring the flat sands of the Duddon Tidewater. Askam was established following the discovery of big amounts of iron ore near the village in the middle of the 18th century. Both originally fell within the borders of the Numerous Lonsdale 'north of the sands' in the historic county of Lancashire, but adhering to city government reforms in 1974 entered into the county of Cumbria, together with the rest of Furness. The close-by River Duddon estuary and surrounding countryside have made the location well known for its wild animals, while the towns' revealed setting on the eastern bank dealing with the Irish Sea have actually encouraged the establishment of wind energy generation, in the middle of regional dispute.
