High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walney Bridge (officially Jubilee Bridge) is a bridge in Cumbria, the United Kingdom that connects Barrow-in-Furness (population 60,000) to Walney Island (population 13,000).Talks began in 1897 to how feasible the construction of a bridge connecting Barrow to Walney would be. At the time, Walney residents where frustrated by the fact that they had to use a ferry to traverse the Walney Channel, and they also saw it as an opportunity to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.