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Foulney Island, Barrow-in-Furness
Foulney Island
locality:-   Morecambe Bay
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   island
coordinates:-   SD24656401 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2464
10Km square:-   SD26

photograph
BPP48.jpg  It's flat.
(taken 16.8.2008)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 5) 
placename:-  Foulney Island
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.
OS County Series (Lan 28 9) 
evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Foulney Iland
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.
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MER5LanA.jpg
"Foulney iland"
island 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   poem:- Drayton 1612/1622 text
placename:-  Fulney
source data:-   Poem, Poly Olbion, by Michael Drayton, published by published by John Marriott, John Grismand and Thomas Dewe, and others? London, part 1 1612, part 2 1622.
image DRY6P136, button  goto source
page 136:-  "...
Against his [Neptune's] boystrous shocks, which this defensive Isle
Of Walney still assayle, that shee doth scorne the while,
Which to assist her hath the Pyle of Fouldra set,
And Fulney at her backe, a pretty Insuley,
Which all their forces bend, their Furnesse safe to keep:
..."
evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (EW) 
placename:-  Foulney
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, England, including Wales, scale about 27 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale Awnsham and John Churchil, London, about 1695.
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MRD3Cm.jpg
"Foulney"
island 
item:-  JandMN : 339
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evidence:-   old text:- Mackenzie 1776
placename:-  Fowla Island
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.
image MK10P18, button  goto source
Page 18:-  "... ..."
"To sail into Piel-of-Foudray from the N.; take half-flood, and keep Black-comb Hill out by Walney (to avoid Helpsford Sand) till you take out a small ruinous house on Fowla Island by Haw's-end; ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Foulney
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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GAR2SD26.jpg
"Foulney"
island 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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