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Walney Lighthouse, Walney Island
Walney Lighthouse
site name:-   Walney Island
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   lighthouse
coordinates:-   SD23016205
1Km square:-   SD2362
10Km square:-   SD26


photograph
BPP78.jpg  From Piel Island.
(taken 16.8.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 9) 
placename:-  Walney Lighthouse
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.
"Walney Light House (Revolving Light)"

evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Light
source data:-   Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
image  click to enlarge
Lw18.jpg
"Light"
lighthouse 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   presumably old text:- Capper 1808
source data:-   Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published 1808-29.
image CAP119, button  goto source
"... The port here [by Piel Castle] is very large and commodious. A light-house has lately been erected at the south end of the Isle of Walney. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Walker 1842
placename:-  Walney Light
source data:-   Chart, Position of all the Lighthouses in the British Isles, scale about 38 nautical miles to 1 inch, published by J and A Walker, 72 South Castle Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, 1842.
marked as a coast light, S end of Walney Island  "Revolves once in 5 minutes"

evidence:-   old map:- Hydrographic Office 1850s onwards
placename:-  Walney Light
source data:-   Chart, uncoloured engraving, England West Coast sheet XI, Fleetwood to the Firth of Solway, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by H Denham and G Williams, 1846, engraved by J and C Walker, published by the Hydrographic Office, 1850 corrected to 1863
coast view on Admiralty chart 
image  click to enlarge
HY01P2.jpg
"Walney Light ..."
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 93
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  
source data:-   image AY01p377, button  goto source
Page 377:-  "..."
"Lights. - Beacons. - A light is exhibited, at an elevation of 70 feet (21m3), from a stone tower, 60 feet (18m3) in height, situated about 1 3/4 cables north-westward of South East point, Walney island."
image AY01p383, button  goto source
Page 383:-  "..."
"Walney light (Lat. 54~ 03' N., Long. 3~ 10' W.) is remarked on at page 377."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WALNEY LIGHTHOUSE WITH TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS / / SOUTH END / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 388601 / SD2301962058"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Lighthouse with attached pair of cottages and storeroom. 1790. For the Lancaster Quay Commissioners (Barnes); cottages altered C19. Lighthouse is dressed, painted stone; cottages stuccoed and with slate roofs. U-shaped group with octagonal lighthouse linking pair of 2-storey 2-window cottages and single-storey outbuilding; pebbled courtyard. Lighthouse: tapered and with slit windows; iron balcony around fully-glazed lantern housing, hipped roof with finial. Cottage to left has door in 1-storey link to lighthouse; two C20 six-pane casements to each floor. Cottage to right has gabled porch with door in left return and 6-pane sashes; the upper windows in half-dormers. Coped gables; end and central stacks. Outbuilding: 2 boarded doors and two 12-pane casements, monoclinal roof. Authorised by Act of Parliament in 1789. Built using stone from Overton near Lancaster at a cost of "1,100. The lighthouse is of particular importance within the group. (Barnes F: Barrow and District: Barrow in Furness: 1968-: 91)."

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
POF7Cm.jpg
"Lighthouse"
map date 1909 

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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

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