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Barrow-in-Furness hotels - Brow Head Hotel, Empress Villas

The Brow Head Hotel on Walney Island, Barrow, is a small family-run hotel, offering hospitality for over 33 years. We are ideally located. If you are visiting family/relatives or are here on business, make us your number one choice.

Save an extra 10% on one of our advance payment rooms. Book early, pay & save. Choose one of these rooms and save an extra 10% (shown in the price) compared to our standard room rates. Payment is made upon booking, and is non-refundable (please read terms & conditions carefully). Want to surprise a loved one? We can arrange to have roses, truffles & champagne waiting in your room prior to arrival. Just tell us your requirements & budget as we have many options & types of champagnes, truffles and rose bouquets to choose from. Express Check-in and Check-out, no hotel forms to fill in upon arrival. If you provide a mobile/handy/cellphone number, you will be sent an SMS text message to confirm your booking. We are a small family-run hotel located on Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness, approximately 1.5 kilometres from the town centre. Brow Head Hotel was built in the late 1890's and offers quaint, large rooms with original woodwork in customer areas. We offer modern decor and furnishings with some contemporary & modern art works. A friendly family service atmosphere awaits you, ideal for couples, families, business customers or adventure seekers. At Brow Head Hotel, we offer a relaxed atmosphere to bring you a home from home. All rooms include an excellent, full English breakfast (unless stated) which includes a varied selection of Kellogg's cereals, orange juice, Twinnings tea or fresh Fair Trade ground coffee and cooked breakfast. Of course, breakfast wouldn't be breakfast without toast with a variety of individual jams, marmalade & Nutella. Vegetarians, Vegan, Jewish and other diets are catered for upon advanced request. Please advise us when booking. You can also top-up your mobile phone 24 hours a day. All major networks covered. Hotel transfers from Walney Airport and Barrow Train Station are charged at a set of 5.95 GBP sterling each way per taxi. Please advise us of your requirements in the comments box. Transfers from Manchester or Newcastle airports are available from 115 GBP return. Brow Head, 'Empress Villas', was originally owned by Vickers Armstrong (now known as BAE Systems) & once housed top management & other famous people such as Barnes Wallace, the man who created the 'bouncing bomb'. Barnes Wallace stayed in Barrow-in-Furness during the early war years. By popular demand, we now enforce a no smoking policy within the hotel guest rooms and main public areas. Smoking on the premises is no longer allowed, but smoking in the foyer and outside the main entrance is still permitted. Barrow is a Victorian town surrounded by beaches and inspiring scenery. All available locally: Golf courses, pedestrianised shopping precinct, the Dock Museum and a large indoor market (open Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday). The South Lakes Wild Animal Park is one of Europe's leading conservation zoos, located in Dalton-in-Furness, a few miles away. You could also visit the ruins of St. Mary of Furnesia, a Cistercian Abbey founded in 1127, or Piel Castle, built in the 14th Century, which is accessible via the Roa Island ferry service. Nearby Ulverston is home to the Laurel and Hardy Museum & Manjushri Mahayana Buddhist Centre at Coniston Head Priory. Established in 1975 as part of the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition, it is now the centre of the New Kadampa Tradition. Housed in a 19th Century mock-Gothic building (built on the site of an Augustinian Priory), it has 70 acres of grounds. The design of the new temple is based on a mandala with 4 doorways & 3 tiers. Cycling W2W (Walney to Wear) - The route runs between Walney Island on Cumbria's Irish Sea coast, where we are situated, to where the River Wear flows into the North Sea at Sunderland. We are also conveniently situated for Furness General Hospital, whether you are a budding doctor making your final examinations, or just wanting to visit family or friends. Bus route 1 & 1A can take you from Brow Head to FGH.

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