North Scale

North Scale is a village and one of only four settlements on the Isle of Walney, Cumbria, England.

North 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.

[3] Before the Jubilee Bridge to Walney Island opened in 1908, people crossing on foot at low tide would arrive near North Scale.

[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.