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Walney Island
Isle of Walney
Wanla
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   island
1Km square:-   SD1767
10Km square:-   SD16
evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Walney Chapelry
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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"Walney chap."
circle; also the island 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cum/EW) 
placename:-  Walney Iland
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, scale about 36 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, about 1610-11, published by Thomas Bassett, Fleet Street and Richard Chiswell, St Paul's Churchyard, London, 1676?
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"Walney Iland"
island 
item:-  private collection : 85
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evidence:-   poem:- Drayton 1612/1622 text
placename:-  Isle of Walney
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.
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page 136:-  "...
As first without her selfe [Furness] at Sea to make her strong,
(Yet how soe'r expos'd, doth still to her belong)
And fence her furthest poynt, from that rough Neptunes rage,
The Isle of Walney lyes, whose longitude doth swage
His fury when his waves, on Furnesse seeme to warre,
Whose crooked back is arm'd with many a rugged scarre
Against his 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:- Sanson 1679
placename:-  Walney Island
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
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"Walney I."
island 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (EW) 
placename:-  Walney Island
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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"Walney I."
island 
item:-  JandMN : 339
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evidence:-   old text:- Mackenzie 1776
placename:-  Walney 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.
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"A Description of the Tides, Rocks, Shoals, Sand-banks, Channels, Anchoring-places, and Harbours, between FORMBY POINT, and WALNEY ISLAND."
"CHART X."
"TIDES. Time of High-water. / From Formby, to St. Bee's Head, it is high water on the shore about eleven o'clock, on the full and change-days of the moon."
"Rise of the Tide. / Spring-tide, on this part of the coast, rises 4½, or five fathoms perpendicular; neap-tide three. In the anchorage at Piel-of-Foudray, spring-tide, the second day after the change, rose six fathoms perpendicular"
"Direction of the Stream. / The stream of flood along the coast, from Formby to Walney, runs northward; and, off the middle of that island, meets the stream which comes round the north coast of Ireland, and from thence runs southward through the Irish channel. The opposition of these two streams destroy each other's force, and renders their celerities scarce sensible in that neighbourhood; but, by accumulating the water in Piel-of-Foudray anchorage, occasions a greater rise of the tide there than in other parts."
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"The stream of tide, near the W. side of Walney, begins to run S.E. at the last quarter of flood on the shore, and continues till it is one quarter flowed, then runs nine hours N.E."
evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Walney Isle
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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"WALNEY ISLE"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789
placename:-  Walney Island
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 132:-  "..."
"Between this lake and the river Dudden runs out the point commonly called Fornesse, to which is opposed for a long way as a kind of breast-work Walney island, divided from it by a narrow channel, the entrance to which is guarded by the Pile of Fouldrey as it is called, built by one of the abbots of Fornesse on a rock in the midst of the sea 1 Edward III."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 142:-  "..."
"Walney isle at the extremity of Fourness has been lately improved by spreading sea-sand on the land, and now produces plentiful crops of wheat and other grain."
evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Walney Isle
source data:-   Map, Lancashire, scale about 18 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Walney Isle"
island 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.6
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Walney Island
source data:-   Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
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"Walney Island"
island 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Isle of Walney
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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"ISLE of WALNEY"
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Perrot 1823
placename:-  Ile Walnay
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 38 miles to 1 inch, by Aristide Michel Perrot, engraved by Migneret, 1823, published by Etienne Ledoux, 9 Rue Guenegaud, Paris, France, 1824-48.
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"I. Walnay"
island 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.45
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"ISLE OF WALNEY"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Hydrographic Office 1850s onwards
placename:-  Walney Island
source data:-   Chart, uncoloured engraving, England West Coast sheet XI, Fleetwood to the Firth of Solway, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by H Denham and G Williams, 1846, engraved by J and C Walker, published by the Hydrographic Office, 1850 corrected to 1863
coast views on Admiralty chart 
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"Walney Elbow"
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"Walney Id."
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"Walney Elbow / Walney Island"
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 93
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evidence:-   old map:- Hydrograpic Office 1850s onwards
placename:-  Walney Island
source data:-   Chart, uncoloured engraving, England West Coast sheet XI, Fleetwood to the Firth of Solway, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by H Denham and G Williams, 1846, engraved by J and C Walker, published by the Hydrographic Office, 1850 corrected to 1863
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"WALNEY ISLAND"
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 93
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Walney Island
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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"Walney Id."
island 
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item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  Walney Island
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Page 375:-  "..."
"APPROACH TO BARROW-IN-FURNESS DOCKS. - Aspect. - Walney island, within which is Piel harbour and the port of Barrow, is low throughout, the highest part, which is only 64 feet (19m5) high, being near the church abreast of Barrow, about 4 1/4 miles from the southern end of the island. The lighthouse, situated near the south-eastern extremity of the island, the look-out house, flagstaff and semaphore near Hilpsford point, at the south-western extremity of the island, the church remarked on above, and a mill, situated near the northern end of the island (chart 1826), are all conspicuous objects."
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Page 383:-  "..."
"Dangers. - ... Foul ground extends for a distance of about a mile, generally, off the western coast of Walney island."
evidence:-   old print:- 
item:-  fishing net
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Pile of Fouldrey Castle, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, drawn by G Pickering, engraved by Fenner and Co, published by Fisher, Son and Co, London, 1830s?
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From Walney Island; fishermen on the shore in the foreground with hand nets. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "Drawn by G. Pickering. / Engraved by Fenner & Co. / PILE OF FOULDREY CASTLE. / FISHER, SON &Co. LONDON."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.595
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references:-  

Cracknell, Basil E: 2005: Outrageous Waves: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, West Sussex):: ISBN 1 86077 344 0
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