Roose
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Roosecote or Roose is a suburb of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria.
Roose is mainly used to refer to a 19th century settlement with two main streets of terraced housing - North and South Row. These were built when the area was developing as an important mining centre, with many originally inhabited by Cornish tin miners that were recruited to the area.
A modern expansion of Roosecote is the Holbeck or Yarlside estate which has some early twentieth century housing but has mainly been developed and expanded from the 1960s onwards built on land of the Holker estate.
There is a dairy works in Roose and historically there were several farms in the area - one of which was converted into the Crofters pub in the 1980s. Roosecote also includes Old Roose close to the railway station with a small number of houses around The Ship Inn pub.
The population for the Roosecote local government area is close to 6000.
Roose railway station, which serves the settlement, is located on the Furness Line, giving connections to Barrow, Millom, Ulverston, Grange-over-Sands and Lancaster.
The area has a post office, Anglican-Methodist shared church, two shops, two pubs and two primary schools - Roose and Yarlside. Roose hospital closed in the 1980s contained in its last years geriatric and gynaecological wards. Further housing developments have taken place on the former site of the hospital.
Roose power station has been converted from coal to now generate electricity from gas. Gas from the Morecambe Bay and Irish Sea gasfields comes on shore at a terminal for British Gas located between Roose and Rampside.
