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Southfield Bank, Whicham
Southfield Bank
civil parish:-   Whicham (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   headland (of sorts) 
coordinates:-   SD12468042 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD1280
10Km square:-   SD18
altitude:-   52 feet
altitude:-   16m

evidence:-   possibly old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Southfield Point
item:-  surveyingbase line
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.
image G7480292, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1748 p.292  "... I measured a fresh base line to fix Southfield point, on a very stoney shore of 88 chains. Off this head a sailor assured me that a very large stone, as big or bigger than his vessel, lies about three miles from land, bare at low ebbs, that he has seen it several times, and has sail'd very near it."

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