Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Alison's Scar, Solway Firth | ||
| Alison's Scar | ||
| site name:- | Solway Firth | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0043 (roughly) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY04 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Mackenzie 1776 placename:- Alison's Scar |
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| source data:- | Charts, and sailing directions, Nautical Descriptions of the
West Coast of Great Britain, Bristol Channel to Cape Wrath, by
Murdoch Mackenzie, published London, 1776. goto sourcePages 23-24:- "... ..." "Alison's-Scar is a rock about a quarter of a mile long, which dries at low spring-tide only, and lies about mid-channel between Dubmill-swap and Robin-rig Bank." |
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