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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  WALNEY LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BARROW IN FURNESS CB/MB (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WALNEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Barrow in Furness	Lancashire	Walney, 50 miles NW. of Liverpool by water and 267 miles from London by rail, 10,967 ac., pop. 47,259; 3 Banks	Bartholomew
  BARROW, or Barrow-in-Furness	Lancashire	Walney Island, 8 miles SW of Ulverston; was only a village, with a pop. of 325, so late as 1847; rose	Imperial
  Biggar	Lancashire	Biggar , hamlet, Walney chapelry, Dalton-in-Furness par., N. Lancashire.	Bartholomew
  BIGGAR	Lancashire	BIGGAR , a hamlet in Walney chapelry, Dalton-in Furness parish, Lancashire.	Imperial
  BLIND TARN	Lancashire	mountain lakelet in Furness, Lancashire; on the S side of Dow-crag, under Walney-scar, 3 miles W of Coniston.	Imperial
  CARLISLE	Cumberland	Walney, and Bardsea. The deanery of Ambleside includes the rectories of Grasmere and Windermere; the vicarage of Hawkshead; and the p. curacies	Imperial
  DALTON-IN-FURNESS	Lancashire	Walney. Acres, 16, 364. Real property, £64, 492; of which £4, 025 are in mines, and £. 33, 627 in railways	Imperial
  DUDDON (The)	Cumberland Lancashire	Walney Island. Its highest reach, down to the foot of Seath-waite, traverses a narrow vale, called specially the vale	Imperial
  Foudray Island	Lancashire	Foudray Island , in vicinity of Walney island, N. Lancashire; has remains of a watch tower.	Bartholomew
  Haw Point	Lancashire	Walney, Morecambe Bay, N. Lancashire; has a lighthouse 50 ft. high, with revolving light (Walney), 70 ft. above high water	Bartholomew
  LANCASHIRE	Lancashire	Walney. The surface of Furness is partly low seaboard, partly a series of fertile vales; but, for the most part	Imperial
  Morecambe Bay	Lancashire Westmorland	Walney), and extends 18 miles NE. to the mouth of river Kent; in 12 fathoms is Morecambe Bay Light-Vessel	Bartholomew
  MORECAMBE BAY	Lancashire Westmorland	Walney Island, belonging to Furness. It measures 10 miles across the entrance; it extends 19 miles north-eastward to the mouth	Imperial
  NORTHEND, or Scale	Lancashire	Scale, a place in the N W of Lancashire; in Walney island, 4 miles S W of Dalton-in-Furness.	Imperial
  SCALE (North)	Lancashire	SCALE (North) , a place in Walney Island, Lancashire; 4 miles S W of Dalton-in-Furness.	Imperial
  WALNEY	Lancashire	WALNEY , an island and a chapelry in Dalton-in-Furness parish, Lancashire. The island is separated from Lower Furness by a narrow	Imperial
  Walney, Isle of	Lancashire	Walney, Isle of , island and eccl. dist., Dalton in Furness par., N. Lancashire, adjacent to Barrow in Furness, pop. 529; P.O.; is separated	Bartholomew
  YARLSIDE	Lancashire	Walney island, 4¾ miles S by E of Dalton. Real property, £9,871; of which £2,000 are in mines	Imperial

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