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Bankend Point, Maryport
Bankend Point
civil parish:-   Maryport (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   headland
coordinates:-   NY04553829 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY0438
10Km square:-   NY03

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1748 p.292  "Hence we have a low coast till you pass the Blue-dial; then the shore begins to be banky, and rises by degrees to the Bankend point, with a skirt of low ground under the banks, for rabbet warrens. The sea-sand is full of stones, some pretty large. On this shore I saw the star-fish, the concha, periwnkle, and pectines, and hardly any other kind. The coast, all along from Skinburn-naze, is entangled with sea-holly, and very few other herbs, save the serpyllum and rest-harrow. "

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