Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Silloth Pier, Port of Silloth | ||
| Silloth Pier | ||
| site name:- | Port of Silloth | |
| locality:- | Silloth | |
| civil parish:- | Silloth-on-Solway (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | pier | |
| coordinates:- | NY10355358 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1053 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY15 | |
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 BRA88.jpg (taken 10.7.2009)  CFX33.jpg (taken 7.3.2017) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 20 11) |
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| 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. click to enlargeCSRY0025.jpg |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Cumberland Motor Services 1926 placename:- Silloth Pier placename:- Orifial item:- orifial |
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| source data:- | Print, halftone photograph, Silloth Pier and Orifial, Silloth-on-Solway, by Photochrom
Co, published by Cumberland Motor Services, Tangier Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland,
about 1926. click to enlargeCS109.jpg On p.31 of Cumberland its Lakes and Mountains. lower right "WP" printed, bottom, left right "Photochrom Co. Ltd. Photo. / SILLOTH Pier &Orifial." item:- JandMN : 1022.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Admiralty 1933 placename:- Silloth Pier item:- navigation lights; fog signal |
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| source data:- |  goto sourcePage 399:- "..." "A light is exhibited, at an elevation of 33 feet (10m1), from a white tower, 26 feet (7m9) in height, situated at the head of Silloth pier. A fog signal is sounded from the pierhead during tide-time." goto sourcePage 400:- "..." "A wooden jetty extends about 1 3/4 cables north-westward from the southern side of the entrance to the tidal basin towards the low-water line. A large-linked chain is laid along the north-eastern side of the entrance, parallel with this jetty, for the purpose of bringing up vessels obliged to anchor in the channel; it is marked at intervals by warping buoys." "Docking signals. - A red ball, shown from the signal mast on the root of the jetty, by day, or a green fixed light at night, indicates that the lock gates are open." |
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 CFX32.jpg (taken 7.3.2017) |
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| notes:- |
Built 1857. |
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