 Site Records
Site Name: Abbottswood (Barrow): 4 Group, 93 Brigade AAOR for the
Barrow GDA
Abbottswood
Furness Abbey
Wye
OS Ref: SD220722
Abbeywood was the site of a Royal Artillery Anti-Aircraft Operations
Room (AAOR), covering the Barrow anti-aircraft zone, and was built in
the early 1950s to a standard design. It was the Barrow Borough Council
emergency center until the 1980's. It was in a heavily wooded area on
the site of the Abbots Wood mansion, built for Sir James Ramsden, one
of Barrow's founding fathers, and one time chairman and major shareholder
of the Furness Railway Company. The bunker was opened to the public
on several occasions, and was demolished in the late 1980's
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