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North Pier, Maryport Harbour
North Pier
locality:-   Maryport Harbour
locality:-   Maryport
civil parish:-   Maryport (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   quay
coordinates:-   NY03183680 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY0336
10Km square:-   NY03


photograph
CFN67.jpg (taken 30.9.2016)  
photograph
CFN68.jpg (taken 30.9.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 44 8) 
placename:-  North Pier
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:-  North Pier
item:-  navigation lights
source data:-   image AY01p396, button  goto source
Page 396:-  "..."
"... Maryport harbour ... is contained within North pier, which projects westward, for a distance of about 1,200 feet (365m8), from the north-eastern point of the entrance to the River Ellen, to a position about 160 feet (48m8) northward of the southern point of the entrance. ..."
image AY01p397, button  goto source
Page 397:-  "..."
"A light is exhibited, at an elevation of 32 feet (9m8), from a white column, 20 feet (6m1) in height, situated at the head of North pier."
"..."
"From the end of the North pier, a large linked chain extends seaward, parallel with the wooden pier, for the purpose of catching the anchors of sailing vessels which have missed the harbour, to prevent them drifting on to the North beach."

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