Mr Furness said the tanker was green and the cab was white. He thinks it could have been a milk tanker and was about 30 tons in weight. |
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Ben Furness was driving Silsden forwards and Hoyle held the ball up well before feeding Rhodes on the right. |
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This house is said to stand on the site of a grange that once belonged to the monks of Furness Abbey. |
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In August 1857, the Furness Line opened which led to the building of more and larger hotels and hydros. |
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Typically the Furness haematite is found in rounded masses, resembling animal kidneys, and so is known as kidney ore. |
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Calls have been made for public loos at a tourist honeypot on the Furness coast to be kept open. |
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Young people across South Lakeland and Furness are being encouraged by police to carry photograph identity cards to prove their age. |
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The riders, although mostly local, did draw supporters from as far afield as Wigan and the Furness peninsula. |
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Their early attempts came from Peter Hanson who headed over the bar and Ben Furness who drove his free kick wide. |
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Civilian frogmen from Furness began a search almost immediately and a salvage team was called from Barrow. |
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In the Furness area, which includes Barrow, there were 404 burglaries, of which 36 per cent were due to insecure doors and windows. |
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Uniforms at a Furness school were ditched for denim on Friday as pupils did their bit for Jeans for Genes day. |
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When PC Furness went on sick leave her absence on the streets prompted juvenile nuisance to increase on her beat. |
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Recruiting large numbers of Gaelic kern, they then invaded England, landing at Furness in Lancashire, and immediately made for Richard III's old power base in north Yorkshire. |
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A Furness pilot is relishing the feel of terra firma after he took to the skies for 11 days in order to bring home a new aircraft for his skydiving school. |
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A co-host of the event, Furness, who is married to Jackman, is an actress, adoptive mother, and adoption advocate. |
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The fund-raisers of South Lakeland and Furness are showing no signs of fatigue as events continue across the district in aid of the Asian earthquake appeal. |
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After being in Furness Youth Theatre Joe was offered the assistant stage manager's job at Barrow's Her Majesty's Theatre, a tiny Edwardian theatre on The Strand. |
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There was also a station on Barrow Island, for commuters between the shipyard and nearby towns served by the Furness Railway. |
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Furness Golf Club, founded in 1872, is the sixth oldest golf club in England and is possibly the more famous of the two. |
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There is also a weekly freesheet called the Advertiser, which is delivered to most households in the Furness area. |
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Coniston is a village and civil parish in the Furness region of Cumbria, England. |
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Broughton in Furness is a small market town on the southern boundary of England's Lake District National Park. |
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In 1859, the Coniston branch of the Furness Railway, which passed through the town, was opened. |
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It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. |
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A terrace of houses adjoining the railway were built by the Furness Railway for its workers. |
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It is part of Furness, making it a part of the ancient county of Lancashire. |
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Haverthwaite is a small village and civil parish in the Furness region of Cumbria. |
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In 1860 the Furness Railway opened its branch line that ran from Ulverston to Lakeside and almost overnight the quays fell into disuse. |
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The vista is open to the south over the green and blue country of Furness, with many fells in view on the other three sides. |
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In the south east are the well known Furness Fells, their heavily quarried flanks rising above Coniston Water. |
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The Furness Fells are those hills and mountains in the Furness region of Cumbria, England. |
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The Old Man of Coniston is a fell in the Furness Fells in the English Lake District. |
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Off the southern tip of Low Furness is Walney Island, eighteen kilometers in length, as well as several smaller islands. |
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The remainder of Furness is predominantly rural, with Ulverston the only other settlement with more then 10,000 people. |
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Much of High Furness consists of moorland, mountain or woodland environments. |
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The Furness Fells are formed of Ordovician volcanic rocks, and Silurian shales and slates to the south. |
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The low rolling hills of Low Furness are formed of glacial deposits, mainly boulder clay, above Triassic sandstone and Carboniferous limestone. |
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In Barrow and up the west coast of Furness, the Sellafield Nuclear site is also a significant employer. |
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The rest of Furness is very rural, with the mountainous, wooded and lacustrine environments. |
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The Windermere Ferry in the east of Furness is England's only vehicular lake ferry. |
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Before the Conquest, Furness, assessed to contain 82 ploughlands, was part of the Manor of Hougun, held by Tostig, Earl of Northumbria. |
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In 1127 Prince Stephen founded Furness Abbey, granting the abbot most of the land in Furness and giving the rest to a Fleming named Michael. |
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A team at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, led by John Furness, is a first-time DARPA performer. |
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During the 13th century, agricultural land around the town was acquired by Fountains and Furness Abbeys. |
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Horace Howard Furness, defending the play in 1895, felt that the apparent inconsistency did not detract from the play's quality. |
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The English Irish Sea coast hosts two important geographic areas, Morecambe Bay, a large bay, and the Furness and Walney Island areas. |
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In the summer David split his army into two forces, sending William fitz Duncan to march into Lancashire, where he harried Furness and Craven. |
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The increasing quantities of iron ore mined in Furness were then brought to Barrow to be transported by sea. |
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Walney is the largest island of the Furness Islands group, both in population and size, as well as the largest English island in the Irish Sea. |
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At a national level, Walney forms part of the Barrow and Furness parliamentary constituency. |
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The formation of a vintage train is based on the activities by the Furness Railway Trust, but coach restoration is common on heritage railways. |
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Apparently, Rawlinson, the founder of the Backbarrow Iron Company in Furness, did not take up the offer. |
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In the Furness district they were often left as the capstone of a wall, particularly near Spark Bridge and Nibthwaite forges. |
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The town council supports the building of a road bridge across the Duddon estuary between Millom and the Furness peninsula. |
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At the tip of the Furness peninsula, close to the Lake District, it is bordered by Morecambe Bay, the Duddon Estuary and the Irish Sea. |
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In the Middle Ages the Furness peninsula was controlled by the Cistercian monks of the Abbey of St Mary of Furness, known as Furness Abbey. |
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Soon after the abbey's foundation the monks discovered iron ore deposits, later to provide the basis for the Furness economy. |
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The increasing quantities of iron ore mined in Furness were then brought into the centre of Barrow to be transported by sea. |
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The Barrow ironworks closed in 1963, three years after the last Furness mine shut. |
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The historic ruins of Furness Abbey and Piel Castle, which are both managed by English Heritage, are also popular tourist destinations. |
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In May 1643, Furness was occupied and plundered by a large Royalist force commanded by Richard Viscount Molyneux. |
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After the Restoration of the monarchy, one Furness landowner, Colonel Sawry, attempted a rising. |
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Iron had been mined in Furness since prehistory, and by the late 18th century ore was being exported from Barrow. |
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The Furness Railway was built in the 19th century to cater to the increasing demand. |
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Mining in Furness reached its peak in 1882, when 1,408,693 tons of ore were won. |
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Tourism in High Furness was promoted by the writings of Beatrix Potter in the early 20th century. |
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He returned to Britain in his later life, moving to Furness in 1774 and residing at the seventeenth century Tytup Hall. |
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Now in the English county of Cumbria, before county reorganisation of 1974 it was in Lancashire, as part of the region known as Furness. |
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Glasgow University's Dr Bob Furness has reported sheep eating live Arctic tern and Arctic skua chicks on Foula, Shetland. |
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Furness received training in Germany, so did the great nineteenth-century belletrists like George Ticknor and Longfellow. |
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Furness has accepted this role after 11 years at Northumberland FA as the Football Development Officer for Coach Education. |
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Deborra-Lee Furness and Wolverine star Hugh are one of Tinseltown's rare golden couples who have been happily married for almost 20 years. |
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Welsh serial biotechnology entrepreneur Chris Evans and former Cabinet Minister Lord Hutton of Furness were among the guests at the reception. |
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She was readmitted to Furness General Hospital in Barrow, Cumbria, but died on Wednesday. |
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Scandinavians probably formed the majority of the Furness population, and Old Norse remained a living language in the region until at least the late 12th century. |
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It is possibly the oldest settlement on Walney, with Furness Abbey records from 1292 mentioning a grange at Biggar, and today is still a farming village. |
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Furness seems to have been scantly populated in ancient times. |
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The wider region of Furness consists of the peninsula and the area known as High Furness, which extends inland into the Lake District and contains the Furness Fells. |
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The Furness Peninsula, also known as Low Furness, is bordered by the estuaries of the River Duddon to the west and the River Leven in Morecambe Bay to the east. |
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Colleges of further education in Cumbria include Carlisle College, Furness College which includes Barrow Sixth Form College, Kendal College and Lakes College West Cumbria. |
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In total Furness has an area of about 647 square kilometers. |
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In its lower reaches it is bounded by the Furness Fells and Harter Fell. |
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The River Duddon flows through the valley, rising in the mountains between Eskdale and Langdale, before flowing into the Irish Sea near Broughton in Furness. |
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At Furness Vale it passes the railway station and the primary school. |
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The principal hospital in Barrow is Furness General Hospital, operated by the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust and located on the outskirts of the town. |
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At the conclusion of the inquest into the seven deaths, the coroner for Furness and South Cumbria criticised the council for its health and safety failings. |
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The Furness Hoard discovery of Viking silver coins and other artefacts in 2011 provided significant archaeological evidence of Norse settlement in the early 9th century. |
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In the 14th century Dalton Castle and Piel Castle were built by the abbots of Furness to defend the market town of Dalton and the port of Barrow respectively. |
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The area had been raided by Scots in 1316 and again in 1322, though in the latter year the abbot paid Robert the Bruce a ransom to stop his men harrying Low Furness. |
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The city centre-based firm has appointed Sarah Furness and Lucy Gray to partner in the employment and commercial disputes departments respectively. |
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In 1644 the Royalists remained in control of Furness, though the country folk were hostile to them, and Parliament ships landed at Piel Island to aid in a rising. |
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The inquest heard it was not known how Mr Furness found the gloves. |
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Notable historic sites in Cumbria include Carlisle Castle, Furness Abbey, Hardknott Roman Fort, Brough Castle and Hadrian's Wall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
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Lonsdale was further partitioned into Lonsdale North, the detached part north of the sands of Morecambe Bay including Furness and Cartmel, and Lonsdale South. |
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The detached northern part of Lancashire in the Lake District, including the Furness Peninsula and Cartmel, was merged with Cumberland and Westmorland to form Cumbria. |
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The second group, otherwise known as the Furness Fells or Coniston Fells, have as their northern boundary the steep and narrow Hardknott and Wrynose passes. |
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During the wars this allowed Furness to escape many of the economic problems that other areas suffered, due to the constant work provided by the military. |
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Low Furness and the western part of High Furness are in the Barrow and Furness parliamentary constituency, while eastern High Furness is in Westmorland and Lonsdale. |
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In the 13th and 14th centuries, Coniston Water was an important source of fish for the monks of Furness Abbey who owned the lake and much of the surrounding land. |
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Furness also enjoyed profitable rights to the extraction of iron ore. |
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They were used for private parties, watching the yacht races or, in one instance, commuting to work, via the rail connection to Barrow in Furness. |
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