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| Piel Bar, Piel Channel | ||
| Piel Bar | ||
| locality:- | Piel Channel | |
| locality:- | Irish Sea | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | sands | |
| coordinates:- | SD24166187 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2461 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD26 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 9) placename:- Piel Bar |
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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:- item:- leading line; navigation lights |
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| source data:- |  goto sourcePage 377:- "..." "The channel through Piel bar, and up to the pile lighthouses described below, is indicated by three sets of leading lights. The first set, numbered 1 and 2, is situated on the southern and south-eastern sides of Foulney island; the second set, numbered 3 and 4, is situated on Rampside sands, which lie northward of Foulney island, between it and the mainland near Rampside, nearly one mile north-north-eastward of Roa island; and the third set, numbered 5 and 6, on Biggar sands (Lat. 54~ 06' N., Long. 3~ 14' W.), the south-western side of Barrow channel, south-westward of Ramsden dock entrance." "..." |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Admiralty 1933 item:- Bar Outer buoy; buoy, Bar Outer; Bar buoy; buoy, Bar; Groyne buoy; buoy, Groyne |
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| source data:- | goto source Page 378:- "A black can buoy, marked "Bar Outer," is moored about 200 feet (61m0) north-westward of the line of the leading lights at about 10 1/2 cables south-south-westward of Walney lighthouse." "A black can light-buoy, marked "Bar," which exhibits a white flashing light having a short flash every ten seconds, is moored about 4 1/2 cables south-south-eastward of Walney lighthouse, on the western side of the bend in the dredged channel through the bar, close north-westward of the leading line, and marking the point where the course has to be altered." "A square black buoy, marked "Groyne," is moored south-south-eastward of the end of the groyne which extends 1 1/2 cables southward from South East point." |
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