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Anchor Basin, Barrow Docks
Anchor Basin
site name:-   Barrow Docks
locality:-   Barrow Island
locality:-   Barrow-in-Furness
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   dock
coordinates:-   SD20176755 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2067
10Km square:-   SD26


image  click to enlarge
BPS81.jpg  Aerial view.
"THE FURNESS RAILWAY COMPANY'S DOCKS. / PORT OF BARROW."  courtesy the Dock Museum

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 21 16) 
placename:-  Anchor Basin
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:-  Anchor Line Basin
source data:-   image AY01p381, button  goto source
Page 381:-  "... Anchor Line basin, at the western end of Ramsden dock, has depths of 24 feet (7m3)."

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