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North Scale
North Scale is a village and one of only four settlements on the Isle of Walney, Cumbria, England. It is the northernmost settlement, lying a mile north of Vickerstown. HistoryNorth Scale was first identified as an agricultural settlement, owned by Furness Abbey, in 1247.[1] As a Parliamentarian stronghold in the English Civil War it was briefly sieged by Royalists.[2] In 1865, the Crown Inn opened in North Scale.[3] Before the Jubilee Bridge to Walney Island opened in 1908, people crossing on foot at low tide would arrive near North Scale. A causeway was built to make crossing possible for longer periods.[4] Modern developmentThe village grew with the development of the Red Ley estate in the 1960s and the Barnes estate in the 1970s.[5] North Scale has a community centre, and is linked by bus services to the rest of Walney Island, and to Barrow-in-Furness, via the Jubilee Bridge. The village is home to the Lakes Gliding Club.[6] In popular cultureNorth Scale is mentioned alongside Biggar in the folk song 'Wa'ney Island Cockfight' as the origin of one of the groups of cockfighters.[7][8] The song has been recorded by Fiddler's Dram and Martin Wyndham-Reed. References
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