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| Two Feet Bank, Solway Firth | ||
| Two Feet Bank | ||
| locality:- | Solway Firth | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | sandbank | |
| 1Km square:- | NX9237 (etc) | |
| 10Km square:- | NX93 | |
| references:- | Hydrographic Office 1850s-90s |
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| evidence:- | HO chart:- Hydrographic Office 1850s onwards (edn 1973) placename:- Two Feet Bank |
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| source data:- | Charts, Irish Sea, Solway Firth, etc, published by the Hydrographic Office from 1850s
onwards. "Two Feet Bank" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Admiralty 1933 placename:- Two Feet Bank item:- buoy, Two Feet Bank; two Feet bank buoy |
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| source data:- |  goto sourcePage 392:- "..." "Two Feet bank is the south-western tongue of the large mass of sandbanks, with depths of less than 3 fathoms (5m5) over them, which occupy the middle portion of the [Solway] firth. From its southern extremity, situated about 6 1/2 miles north-westward of Workington pierhead, the edge of the bank trends eastward and north-eastward and forms the eastern edge of Robin Rigg." "A spherical buoy painted red and white in horizontal bands, with a staff and diamond topmark and marked "Two Feet Bank,"" goto sourcePage 393:- "is moored near the 6-fathom (11m0) line at the southern end of Two Feet bank, about 6 1/2 miles north-westward of Workington pierhead." |
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