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Training Wall, Barrow-in-Furness
Training Wall
locality:-   Piel Channel area
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-  
coordinates:-   SD20526635 (etc etc) 
coordinates:-   SD20246607 (etc etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2066
10Km square:-   SD26
SummaryText:-   paired either side of Piel/Walney Channels

evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  Training Banks
item:-  beacons
source data:-   image AY01p378, button  goto source
Page 378:-  "Training banks. - Beacons. - Training banks have been constructed on both sides of the inner part of the channel leading to the docks. The positions of these banks can best be seen on the chart. The outer training bank on the south-western side of the channel varies in height from 17 feet (5m2) above the level of chart datum, at its northern end, to 14 feet (4m3) above that level, at its southern end; the inner training bank is about 12 feet (3m7) in height above the level of chart datum. The training bank on the north-eastern side of the channel varies in height from 27 feet (8m2) above the level of chart datum, at its northern end, to 17 feet (5m2) above that level, at its south-eastern end."
"The training banks on the south-western side of the channel are marked at intervals by post beacons, the tops of which are elevated 3 feet (0m9), with X topmarks."

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