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| Robin Rigg, Solway Firth | ||
| Robin Rigg | ||
| site name:- | Solway Firth | |
| locality:- | English Channel | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | sandbank | |
| 1Km square:- | NX9539 (etc, roughly) | |
| 10Km square:- | NX93 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Mackenzie 1776 placename:- Robinrig Bank |
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| source data:- | Charts, and sailing directions, Nautical Descriptions of the
West Coast of Great Britain, Bristol Channel to Cape Wrath, by
Murdoch Mackenzie, published London, 1776. goto sourcePages 23-24:- "... ..." "Robin-rig Bank is a long curved sand-bank, that forms one side of what is called the English Channel. Only that part of it dries which is next Workington Bank; which it does with low spring-tide only: the rest has six or nine feet of water over it, and is always to be distinguished by the breakers, or by a ripple on it. ..." |
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| evidence:- | HO chart:- Hydrographic Office 1850s onwards (edn 1973) placename:- Robin Rigg |
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| source data:- | Charts, Irish Sea, Solway Firth, etc, published by the Hydrographic Office from 1850s
onwards. "Robin Rigg" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Admiralty 1933 placename:- Robin Rigg item:- buoy, Robin Rigg; buoy, Solway Channel |
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| source data:- | goto source Page 387:- "... English channel, which lies between the shoals that extend seaward from the coast between Harrington and Dubmill point, on the east, and Workington bank, Three Fathoms bank, and Robin Rigg, on the west." goto sourcePage 399:- "..." "A black can buoy, marked "S.1.", is moored near the 5-fathom (9m1) line forming the south-eastern edge of Robin Rigg, about 4 3/4 miles west-south-westward of Dubmill point." |
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