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| Coup Scar, Barrow-in-Furness | ||
| Coup Scar | ||
| locality:- | Piel Channel area | |
| locality:- | Walney Island | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| locality type:- | shoal | |
| coordinates:- | SD22906440 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2264 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD26 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 5) placename:- Coup Scar |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Admiralty 1933 placename:- Coup Scar item:- buoy, Coup Scar; Coup Scar buoy |
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| source data:- |  goto sourcePage 376:- "... Coup scar nearly 3 cables from its [Piel Island's] northern side." "..." goto sourcePage 378:- "The buoys marking each side of the channel above Piel are moored just outside the dredged channel, and are numbered from seaward. No.1 port hand buoy is a light-buoy; it is moored at the north-" goto sourcePage 379:- "[north-]eastern extremity of Coup scar, and exhibits a white flashing light having a short flash every two and a half seconds." |
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