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Barrow-in-Furness is a large industrial town and port in the north west county of Cumbria, North West England, noted for its shipbuilding industry and once having the world's largest and most impressive steelworks.
The town, commonly known simply as Barrow by the local Cumbria inhabitants , is situated at the very end of the Furness peninsula in the south west of the county of Cumbria. It was a small village until the mid-1800s when it expanded quickly during the Industrial Revolution. Spurred on by the Furness Railway, by the late 19th century Barrow had built and developed the world's largest steel-making plant, and had become the major shipbuilding and submarine centre that it remains today.
The shipyard became a significant producer of vessels, and since the 1960s has particularly specialised in the manufacture of nuclear type submarines. All of the Uk's Vanguard class submarines, which carry the Trident nuclear missilet, were built manufactured at the works. With the end of the Cold War and subsequent decrease in military spending the area suffered substantial unemployment.