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| Walney Windmill, Walney Island | ||
| Walney Windmill | ||
| locality:- | Walney Island | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | windmill (gone) | |
| locality type:- | mill (gone) | |
| coordinates:- | SD17207105 (guess) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1771 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD17 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 21 6) placename:- Walney Windmill |
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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 Windmill (Disused)" |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- Penn 1730s |
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| source data:- | Painting, pen and ink and watercolour, A Prospect of the Ruins
of the Castle of Pile of Fouldry and the Adjacent Islands taken
from Ramside, ie Piel Castle etc, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire,
by Stephen Penn, 1730s. click to enlargePEN5Msc3.jpg item:- Huntington Art Gallery : 1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Admiralty 1933 |
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| source data:- |  goto sourcePage 375:- "... Walney island, ... and a mill, situated near the northern end of the island (chart 1826), are all conspicuous objects." |
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