Acorn Bank Watermill (2025)
Cumbria
Modern museum built over a Victorian Graving Dock. Contains ship models and artefacts relating to maritime, industrial and social history. Fine art collection.
Operator: Barrow Borough Council
Address: North Road Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria LA14 2PW
Wed-Sun 1100-1600. Visit website for more details.
Built in a historic 19th century dock, the museum is home to a wealth of objects on the social and industrial history of the Furness area. Barrow-in-Furness was a small farming village rapidly transformed into a bustling industrial town within a few decades. It has been the cutting edge of technology for more than a century with submarines, airships, warships and beautiful cruise liners being built in this little-explored town.
Find out more about the fascinating heritage of the area from cave finds, Viking treasure, Victorian life, Anderson shelters and the Second World War as well as Barrow’s long history building vessels (and still building submarines today).
We have a landscaped site and Channelside walks linking to the Cumbria Coastal Way.