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Piel Bar, Piel Channel
Piel Bar
locality:-   Piel Channel
locality:-   Irish Sea
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   sands
coordinates:-   SD24166187 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2461
10Km square:-   SD26

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 9) 
placename:-  Piel Bar
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:-  
item:-  leading linenavigation lights
source data:-   image AY01p377, button  goto source
Page 377:-  "..."
"The channel through Piel bar, and up to the pile lighthouses described below, is indicated by three sets of leading lights. The first set, numbered 1 and 2, is situated on the southern and south-eastern sides of Foulney island; the second set, numbered 3 and 4, is situated on Rampside sands, which lie northward of Foulney island, between it and the mainland near Rampside, nearly one mile north-north-eastward of Roa island; and the third set, numbered 5 and 6, on Biggar sands (Lat. 54~ 06' N., Long. 3~ 14' W.), the south-western side of Barrow channel, south-westward of Ramsden dock entrance."
"..."

evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
item:-  Bar Outer buoybuoy, Bar OuterBar buoybuoy, BarGroyne buoybuoy, Groyne
source data:-   image AY01p378, button  goto source
Page 378:-  "A black can buoy, marked "Bar Outer," is moored about 200 feet (61m0) north-westward of the line of the leading lights at about 10 1/2 cables south-south-westward of Walney lighthouse."
"A black can light-buoy, marked "Bar," which exhibits a white flashing light having a short flash every ten seconds, is moored about 4 1/2 cables south-south-eastward of Walney lighthouse, on the western side of the bend in the dredged channel through the bar, close north-westward of the leading line, and marking the point where the course has to be altered."
"A square black buoy, marked "Groyne," is moored south-south-eastward of the end of the groyne which extends 1 1/2 cables southward from South East point."

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