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Silloth Bay, Silloth-on-Solway
Silloth Bay
site name:-   Solway Firth
locality:-   Silloth
civil parish:-   Silloth-on-Solway (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bay
coordinates:-   NY10535440 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1054
10Km square:-   NY15


photograph
BRA92.jpg  From the harbour end.
(taken 10.7.2009)  
photograph
CDH34.jpg  From the harbour end; note the lifeboat slipway.
(taken 12.6.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 20 11) 
placename:-  Silloth Bay
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 map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Silloth Bay
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
image
FD02NY05.jpg
"Silloth Bay"
Sea area. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Silloth Bay
source data:-   Print, hand coloured engraving, Entrance to Silloth Bay and Dock, Cumberland, published by Hudson Scott, litho printer, Carlisle, Cumbria, 1870.
image  click to enlarge
PR0369.jpg
There is shipping in the offing and at the dock, a train leaving the quay; some scottish coastal features are labelled - Lee Scar lighthouse, Southerness lighthouse, Criffel and Carse Thorn. 
printed at bottom:-  "ENTRANCE TO SILLOTH BAY AND DOCK, CUMBERLAND. / OPPOSITE THE SCOTCH COAST / HUDSON SCOTT, LITHO PRINTER CARLISLE."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.369
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BRA93.jpg  Fishing, at the harbour end.
(taken 10.7.2009)  
photograph
CFX18.jpg  Fishing boat.
(taken 7.3.2017)  

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