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Silloth Bank, Solway Firth
Silloth Bank
site name:-   Solway Firth
locality:-   Silloth
civil parish:-   Silloth-on-Solway (formerly Cumberland) (off) 
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   sandbank
coordinates:-   NY10705540 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1055
10Km square:-   NY15
evidence:-   possibly old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Silloth Banks
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Silloth Banks"
line of sand dunes or foreshore? S of Silloth 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old text:- Mackenzie 1776
placename:-  Silloth Bank
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.
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Pages 23-24:-  "... ..."
"Silloth Bank lies near a mile and half from the nearest part of the shore at Silloth, and begins to dry on the W. end at half-ebb. Between the middle of it and Skinburness, there is a patch of sand that dries with spring-tide only."
evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  Silloth Bank
source data:-   image AY01p398, button  goto source
Page 398:-  "..."
"On the north-western side of the approach is the continuation north-eastward of Robin Rigg, formerly known as North bank, with Silloth bank close south-eastward of it; these banks are not"
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Page 399:-  "charted, as before stated, on account of the rapid changes that take place in them."
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