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Dubmill Scar, Solway Firth
Dubmill Scar
locality:-   Solway Firth
locality:-   Dubmill
civil parish:-   Holme St Cuthbert (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY07334508 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY0744
10Km square:-   NY04

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 27 14) 
placename:-  Dubmill Scar
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.
OS County Series (Cmd 35 2) 

evidence:-   HO chart:- Hydrographic Office 1850s onwards (edn 1973) 
placename:-  Dubmill Scar
source data:-   Charts, Irish Sea, Solway Firth, etc, published by the Hydrographic Office from 1850s onwards.
"Dubmill Scar"

evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  Dubmill Scar
source data:-   image AY01p398, button  goto source
Page 398:-  "... Dubmill scar, Far Sand bank, and Ellison scar extend nearly 3 miles westward from Dubmill point and form a continuous line of shoals, which obstruct the approach to Silloth from the south-westward. ..."

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