button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Borwick Rails Harbour, Millom
Borwick Rails Harbour
locality:-   Millom
civil parish:-   Millom (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   harbour
coordinates:-   SD18817997 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD1879
10Km square:-   SD17

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 10 15) 
placename:-  Borwick Rails Harbour
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:-  iron ore
source data:-   image AY01p383, button  goto source
Page 383:-  "... Vessels of 500 tons are able to reach the pier at Millom, where the ore from the mine is loaded."

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.