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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 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 1) placename:- Head Scar |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Admiralty 1933 placename:- Head Scar item:- buoy, Head Scar; Head Scar buoy |
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| source data:- |  goto sourcePage 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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