Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Foulney Island
	parish	Barrow-in-Furness borough, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		island
	coordinates:-	SD244630
	10Km square:-	SD26
	1Km square	SD2463
		Foulney Island -- Barrow-in-Furness -- Cumbria / -- It's flat. -- 16.8.2008
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Foulney
		island
	placename:-	Foulney
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old text:-	Mackenzie 1776
		Charts, and sailing directions, Nautical Descriptions of the West Coast of Great Britain, Bristol Channel to Cape Wrath, by Murdoch Mackenzie, published London, 1776.
		Page 18:-
		... ...
		To sail into Piel-of-Foudray from the N.; take half-flood, and keep Black-comb Hill out by Walney (to avoid Helpsford Sand) till you take out a small ruinous house on Fowla Island by Haw's-end; ...
	placename:-	Fowla Island
	date:-	1776
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (EW)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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		Foulney
		island
	placename:-	Foulney
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	poem:-	Drayton 1612/1622 text
		Poem, Polyolbion, by Michael Drayton, published 1612, part 2 with Cumbria published by John Marriott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622.
		page 136:-
	placename:-	Fulney
	date:-	1612; 1622
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s; 1620s
		Foulney Island, Barrow-in-Furness: kite surfing 2008
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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