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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

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 5) 
placename:-  Coup Scar
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.

evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  Coup Scar
item:-  buoy, Coup ScarCoup Scar buoy
source data:-   image AY01p376, button  goto source
Page 376:-  "... Coup scar nearly 3 cables from its [Piel Island's] northern side."
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Page 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-"
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Page 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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