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| Walney Lighthouse, Walney Island | ||
| Walney Lighthouse | ||
| site name:- | Walney Island | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | lighthouse | |
| coordinates:- | SD23016205 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2362 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD26 | |
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 BPP78.jpg From Piel Island. (taken 16.8.2008) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 9) placename:- Walney Lighthouse |
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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. "Walney Light House (Revolving Light)" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806 placename:- Light |
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| 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. click to enlargeLw18.jpg "Light" lighthouse item:- private collection : 18.18 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | presumably old text:- Capper 1808 |
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| source data:- | Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom,
compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard
Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published
1808-29. goto source"... The port here [by Piel Castle] is very large and commodious. A light-house has lately been erected at the south end of the Isle of Walney. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Walker 1842 placename:- Walney Light |
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| source data:- | Chart, Position of all the Lighthouses in the British Isles,
scale about 38 nautical miles to 1 inch, published by J and A
Walker, 72 South Castle Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, 1842. marked as a coast light, S end of Walney Island "Revolves once in 5 minutes" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Hydrographic Office 1850s onwards placename:- Walney Light |
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| 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 view on Admiralty chart  click to enlargeHY01P2.jpg "Walney Light ..." item:- Carlisle Library : Map 93 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Admiralty 1933 placename:- |
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| source data:- | goto source Page 377:- "..." "Lights. - Beacons. - A light is exhibited, at an elevation of 70 feet (21m3), from a stone tower, 60 feet (18m3) in height, situated about 1 3/4 cables north-westward of South East point, Walney island." goto sourcePage 383:- "..." "Walney light (Lat. 54~ 03' N., Long. 3~ 10' W.) is remarked on at page 377." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WALNEY LIGHTHOUSE WITH TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS / / SOUTH END / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 388601 / SD2301962058" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Lighthouse with attached pair of cottages and storeroom. 1790. For the Lancaster Quay Commissioners (Barnes); cottages altered C19. Lighthouse is dressed, painted stone; cottages stuccoed and with slate roofs. U-shaped group with octagonal lighthouse linking pair of 2-storey 2-window cottages and single-storey outbuilding; pebbled courtyard. Lighthouse: tapered and with slit windows; iron balcony around fully-glazed lantern housing, hipped roof with finial. Cottage to left has door in 1-storey link to lighthouse; two C20 six-pane casements to each floor. Cottage to right has gabled porch with door in left return and 6-pane sashes; the upper windows in half-dormers. Coped gables; end and central stacks. Outbuilding: 2 boarded doors and two 12-pane casements, monoclinal roof. Authorised by Act of Parliament in 1789. Built using stone from Overton near Lancaster at a cost of "1,100. The lighthouse is of particular importance within the group. (Barnes F: Barrow and District: Barrow in Furness: 1968-: 91)." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s |
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| source data:- | Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England
and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s. click to enlargePOF7Cm.jpg "Lighthouse" map date 1909 |
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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums |
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