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Metal Lighthouse, Hodbarrow
Metal Lighthouse
site name:-   Outer Barrier
locality:-   Hodbarrow
civil parish:-   Millom (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   lighthouse
coordinates:-   SD17397793
1Km square:-   SD1777
10Km square:-   SD17


photograph
BMV21.jpg  On the Outer Barrier.
(taken 13.10.2006)  

evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
source data:-   image AY01p383, button  goto source
Page 383:-  "..."
"Light. - Fog signal. - A light is exhibited, at an elevation of 40 feet (12m2), from an iron tower, 25 feet (7m6) in height, situated near the centre of the sea wall, about half a mile westward of Hodbarrow point."

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