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Tongue Pier, Maryport Harbour
Tongue Pier
locality:-   Maryport Harbour
locality:-   Maryport
civil parish:-   Maryport (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   pier
coordinates:-   NY03283674
1Km square:-   NY0336
10Km square:-   NY03


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BWI12.jpg (taken 4.5.2012)  
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CFN65.jpg (taken 30.9.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 44 8) 
placename:-  Tongue Pier
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:-  Tongue Pier
source data:-   image AY01p397, button  goto source
Page 397:-  "..."
"During tidal hours, namely from 2 1/2 hours before until 1 1/2 hours after high water, ..."
"During the same period, a red light is exhibited, at an elevation of 25 feet (7m6), from a mast, 20 feet (6m1) in height, situated at the head of Tongue pier."


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CFN69.jpg  Navigation beacon?
(taken 30.9.2016)  

MN photo:-  
A poetry path, slabs on the pier.
The beginning:-

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BWI13.jpg (taken 4.5.2012)  
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BWI14.jpg "Steel flowers / in the / distance" (taken 4.5.2012)  
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BWI15.jpg "Scotland / a blur" (taken 4.5.2012)  
The end:-

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BWI16.jpg (taken 4.5.2012)  
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BWI17.jpg "Clouds" (taken 4.5.2012)  
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BWI18.jpg "blown / away" (taken 4.5.2012)  

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