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Head Scar, Barrow-in-Furness
Head Scar
locality:-   Piel Channel area
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
locality type:-   shoal
locality type:-   mussel bed
coordinates:-   SD22426525 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2265
10Km square:-   SD26

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 1) 
placename:-  Head 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.

evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  Head Scar
item:-  buoy, Head ScarHead Scar buoy
source data:-   image AY01p379, button  goto source
Page 379:-  "No.1 starboard hand buoy is also alight-buoy; it is moored at the southern extremity of Head scar, about 4 cables westward of the look-out tower on Roa island, and exhibits a red flashing light having a short flash every nine seconds."

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