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Elbow Buoy, Barrow-in-Furness
Elbow Buoy
locality:-   Piel Channel area
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buoy
coordinates:-   SD212655 (guess) 
1Km square:-   SD2165
10Km square:-   SD26

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 27 4) 
placename:-  Elbow Buoy
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
item:-  buoy, ElbowElbow buoy
source data:-   image AY01p379, button  goto source
Page 379:-  "An un-numbered black can buoy, with a globe topmark and marked Elbow, is moored, on the south-western side of the channel, about midway between Nos.7 and 8 port hand buoys."

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