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Haws Point, Walney Island
Haws Point
locality:-   Walney Island
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   headland
coordinates:-   SD23326214 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2362
10Km square:-   SD26

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 9) 
placename:-  Haws Point
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:- Mackenzie 1776
placename:-  Haws Point
source data:-   Charts, and sailing directions, Nautical Descriptions of the West Coast of Great Britain, Bristol Channel to Cape Wrath, by Murdoch Mackenzie, published London, 1776.
image MK10P18, button  goto source
Page 18:-  "... ..."
"To sail into Piel-of-Foudray from the S.; first make the old castle on that Island ...keep the castle N. by E. or N. by E. ½E. and after half-flood steer for the Haws-point of Walney; give it a small birth, and steer for the E. side of Piel-of-Foudray Island, ..."

evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  
source data:-   image AY01p376, button  goto source
Page 376:-  "Haws point, at the eastern end of Walney island, which forms the western side of the entrance, is fronted by a steep shingle beach; ..."

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