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Askam In Furness
Civil parish in Cumbria, England

Askam In Furness

Askam and Ireleth is a civil parish close to Barrow-in-Furness in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England.

Historically part of Lancashire, it originally consisted of two separate coastal villages with different origins and histories which, in recent times, have merged to become one continuous settlement. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 3,632, reducing at the 2011 census to 3,462.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Kijog (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.