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Furness is a peninsula and region in south Cumbria, England. While the name originally referred to the peninsula only, it can also refer more broadly to the whole of North Lonsdale, that part of the Lonsdale hundred that is an exclave of the historic county of Lancashire, lying to the north of Morecambe Bay.〔(Furness Family History Society ), 'Lancashire North of the Sands', Accessed August 20, 2006.〕 Since the boundary changes which removed the area from Lancashire, the use of the word Furness for the whole area has increased. The area may be divided into Low Furness and High Furness. Low Furness is the peninsula itself;〔(Explore Low Furness ) Accessed August 20, 2006〕 also an electoral ward which had a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 1,648.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Low Furness Ward population 2011 )〕 It juts out into the Irish Sea and delineates the western edge of Morecambe Bay. Another ward called Mid Furness exists. The population of this ward also taken at the 2011 Census was 3,981.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mid Furness Ward population 2011 )〕 The southern end of the peninsula is dominated by the bay's tidal mudflats. The long thin island of Walney lies off the peninsula's south-west coast. High Furness is the northern part of the area, that was part of North Lonsdale but is not on the peninsula itself.〔(Furness Family History Society ) Accessed August 20, 2006〕 Much of it is within the Lake District National Park, and it includes the Furness Fells. It borders England's largest body of water, Windermere. Additionally, the Cartmel Peninsula, a separate peninsula between the estuaries of the rivers Leven and Kent, is often included in definitions of Furness.〔(Furness Family History Society ) 'Cartmel' Accessed August 20, 2006〕 The town of Barrow-in-Furness dominates the region with about 55% of the total population of 102,000. Other principal settlements are Ulverston, Dalton-in-Furness, Coniston, Broughton-in-Furness, and Askam and Ireleth. == History == The oldest record of its name is as ''Fuþþernessa'' about 1150, meaning 'headland by the rump-shamped island'.〔A.D.Mills, ''Dictionary of English place-names'', Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280074-4〕 Evidence of Roman inhabitation has remained scarce until recently, but archaeological surveys in Urswick have suggested that the local church dates to this time, and may even have been a monastery. It has also been claimed that this was the birthplace of St Patrick.〔(North West Evening Mail )〕 Furness was, prior to Anglo-Saxon settlement, part of the British Kingdom of Strathclyde. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Furness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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