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Biggar, Cumbria

Village in Cumbria, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	Biggar Village, Walney Island.jpg
static_image_caption	Biggar Village
coordinates
official_name	Biggar
unitary_england	Westmorland and Furness
lieutenancy_england	Cumbria
region	North West England
constituency_westminster	Barrow and Furness
post_town	BARROW-IN-FURNESS
postcode_district	LA14
postcode_area	LA
dial_code	01229
os_grid_reference	SD186662
pushpin_map	United Kingdom Borough of Barrow-in-Furness
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Barrow-in-Furness Borough

Biggar is a village towards the south of Walney Island in Cumbria, England. Along with the village of North Scale, it is the oldest settlement on the island. It now forms part of the Westmorland and Furness.

Furness Abbey records from 1292 mention a grange at Biggar, of around 100 acre in size. Biggar Dyke was built in the Sixteenth century [when the village was part of Dalton Parish] as coastal defence for the village and island. The first mention of the name the 'Queen's Arms' was in 1869 to distinguish it from the recently opened 'New Inn' in the village although it was a beer house as early as 1753.

Biggar has remained outside of the main urban limits of Walney and Barrow-in-Furness, and is still a small farming village. It lies on the eastern coast of Walney, to the north of a nature reserve, containing one of England's few oyster farms.

Biggar is mentioned alongside North Scale in the folk song 'Wa'ney Island Cockfight' The song has been recorded by Fiddler's Dram and Martin Wyndham-Reed.

References

village Biggar (which is about 3km south-west of middle of town Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and about 29km west of city Lancaster in Lancashire, England, UK) found --

References

Barnes, F.; 1968; Barrow and District; Second Edition; Barrow-in-Furness Corporation;
Allan, Sue. (2017). "FOLK SONG IN CUMBRIA: A DISTINCTIVE REGIONAL REPERTOIRE?".
Wyndham-Reed, Martin. "English Sporting Ballads, Broadside BRO128".

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