Askam-in-furness
Askam and Ireleth is a civil parish close to Barrow-in-Furness in the county of Cumbria, in North West England. Historically part of Lancashire, it initially included two different seaside villages with various beginnings and also histories which, in current times, have combined to turn into one continuous settlement. The populace of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 3,632. Ireleth has its beginnings as a mediaeval farming village gathered on the hillside forgeting the flat sands of the Duddon Tidewater. Askam was developed complying with the discovery of big amounts of iron ore near the village in the middle of the 18th century. Both originally dropped within the boundaries of the Numerous Lonsdale 'north of the sands' in the historic county of Lancashire, however following local government reforms in 1974 entered into the county of Cumbria, together with the remainder of Furness. The close-by River Duddon estuary and bordering countryside have made the location popular for its wild animals, while the towns' subjected placement on the eastern financial institution dealing with the Irish Sea have urged the establishment of wind energy generation, in the middle of neighborhood conflict.
