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Outer Barrier, Hodbarrow
Outer Barrier
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locality:-   Hodbarrow
civil parish:-   Millom (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   sea wall
1Km square:-   SD1777
1Km square:-   SD1678
10Km square:-   SD17


photograph
BMV20.jpg (taken 13.10.2006)  

evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  Hodbarrow Point
source data:-   image AY01p383, button  goto source
Page 383:-  "... a small promontory [Hodbarrow Point] on which an extensive red hematite iron mine is worked. A sea wall, about a mile long, has been constructed on the southern side of this promontory, to enable the mining to be carried on under the sea bed. There are depths of 20 feet (6m1) alongside this wall at high water springs, but it is fully exposed to the prevailing wind and the sea breaks over it with violence at times."

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