| Official Name: | North Scale |
| Country: | England |
| Region: | North West England |
| Os Grid Reference: | SD180700 |
| Coordinates: | 54.1198°N -3.255°W |
| Post Town: | BARROW-IN-FURNESS |
| Postcode Area: | LA |
| Postcode District: | LA14 |
| Dial Code: | 01229 |
| Constituency Westminster: | Barrow and Furness |
| Shire District: | Barrow-in-Furness |
| Shire County: | Cumbria |
| Pushpin Map: | United Kingdom Borough of Barrow-in-Furness |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Barrow-in-Furness Borough |
North Scale is a village and one of only four settlements on the Isle of Walney, Cumbria, England. It is the northernmost settlement, lying a mile north of Vickerstown.
North Scale was first identified as an agricultural settlement, owned by Furness Abbey, in 1247.[1]
As a Parliamentarian stronghold in the English Civil War it was briefly sieged by Royalists.[2]
In 1865, the Crown Inn opened in North Scale.[3]
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.[4]
The village grew with the development of the Red Ley estate in the 1960s and the Barnes estate in the 1970s.[5]
North Scale has a community centre, and is linked by bus services to the rest of Walney Island, and to Barrow-in-Furness, via the Jubilee Bridge.
The village is home to the Lakes Gliding Club.[6]
North Scale is mentioned alongside Biggar in the folk song 'Wa'ney Island Cockfight' as the origin of one of the groups of cockfighters.[7] [8] The song has been recorded by Fiddler's Dram and Martin Wyndham-Reed.