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North Scale
North Scale is a village and one of only four settlements on the Isle of Walney. It is the northernmost settlement, lying a mile north of Vickerstown. ==History== North Scale was first identified as an agricultural settlement, owned by Furness Abbey, in 1247.〔http://www.walney-island.com/north_scale_01.htm〕 As a royalist stronghold in the English Civil War it was briefly sieged by Parliamentarians. In 1865, the Crown Inn opened in North Scale.〔http://www.walney-island.com/crown_hotel_01.htm〕 Before the Jubilee Bridge to Walney Island opened in 1908, people crossing on foot at low tide would arrive near North Scale. A causeway was built to make crossing possible for longer periods.〔http://lakescounties.blogspot.com/2008/03/bridge-too-far.html〕
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