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| Piel Scar, Piel Island | ||
| Piel Scar | ||
| locality:- | Piel Island | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| locality type:- | shoal | |
| coordinates:- | SD23396340 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2364 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD26 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 5) placename:- Piel 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:- Piel Scar |
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| source data:- |  goto sourcePage 376:- "... farther northward [of Haws Point], on the western side of the channel, Piel scar dries out about 3 1/2 cables from the southern tip of Piel island (Lat. 54~ 04' N., Long. 3~ 10' W.), ..." |
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