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Hawcoat, Barrow in Furness — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Furness Abbey Museum and the Ernest Pass Memorial Ground sit in Hawcoat, a Town Council ward on the northern side of Barrow-in-Furness.
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Where to stay in Hawcoat
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Hawcoat is a residential ward, and the beds are not in it. Anyone booking for the Furness Abbey Museum or the Ernest Pass Memorial Ground will find the rooms gathered in central Barrow-in-Furness instead, a short run from these streets. Front doors here, not front desks.
Dalton-in-Furness lies over the ward's northern boundary, which makes Hawcoat a place people pass between the two towns rather than one they check into.
Few places to stay in Hawcoat — most visitors book in Barrow in Furness nearby.
About Hawcoat
What are the main landmarks in Hawcoat?
Three names carry the ward. The Furness Abbey Museum is the one a visitor is likeliest to have heard of, while South Lodge at Abbotswood and the Ernest Pass Memorial Ground fill out a short list of recorded addresses in Hawcoat. None of them sits in the town centre.
Hawcoat borders Roose, Newbarns, Parkside and Ormsgill, and Dalton-in-Furness lies over its northern edge, so the ward reads as suburban rather than civic.
What is the history of Hawcoat?
Lancashire came first. Hawcoat sat within that historic county before the boundary changes that placed it in Cumbria, and it has served since as a district-level ward and then as a Town Council ward of Barrow-in-Furness. South Lodge at Abbotswood is among its recorded buildings.
No founding year attaches to the name, which reaches the record as an area rather than as a chartered village.
Where is Hawcoat?
Hawcoat takes in the northern side of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, hemmed by Ormsgill, Parkside, Newbarns and Roose, with Dalton-in-Furness beyond.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Hawcoat?
Barrow-in-Furness: rooms a short drive from Hawcoat and Dalton-in-Furness.
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Updated September 2026