Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Walney Island
	other name:-	Isle of Walney
	other name:-	Wanla
	parish	Barrow-in-Furness borough, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		island
	coordinates:-	SD1767
	10Km square:-	SD16
	1Km square	SD1767
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Walney Id.
		island
	placename:-	Walney Island
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		ISLE OF WALNEY
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	source:-	Otley 1818
		New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s.
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		ISLE of WALNEY
	placename:-	Isle of Walney
		island
	date:-	1818
	period:-	19th century, early; 1810s
	old text:-	Camden 1789
		Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
		Page 132:-
		...
		Between this lake and the river Dudden runs out the point commonly called Fornesse, to which is opposed for a long way as a kind of breast-work Walney island, divided from it by a narrow channel, the entrance to which is guarded by the Pile of Fouldrey as it is called, built by one of the abbots of Fornesse on a rock in the midst of the sea 1 Edward III.
	placename:-	Walney Island
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old text:-	Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
		Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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		...
		Walney isle at the extremity of Fourness has been lately improved by spreading sea-sand on the land, and now produces plentiful crops of wheat and other grain.
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	West 1784 map
		A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821.
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		WALNEY ISLE
	placename:-	Walney Isle
		island
	county:-	Lancashire
	old text:-	Mackenzie 1776
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		A Description of the Tides, Rocks, Shoals, Sand-banks, Channels, Anchoring-places, and Harbours, between FORMBY POINT, and WALNEY ISLAND.
		CHART X.
		TIDES. Time of High-water. / From Formby, to St. Bee's Head, it is high water on the shore about eleven o'clock, on the full and change-days of the moon.
		Rise of the Tide. / Spring-tide, on this part of the coast, rises 4 1/2, or five fathoms perpendicular; neap-tide three. In the anchorage at Piel-of-Foudray, spring-tide, the second day after the change, rose six fathoms perpendicular
		Direction of the Stream. / The stream of flood along the coast, from Formby to Walney, runs northward; and, off the middle of that island, meets the stream which comes round the north coast of Ireland, and from thence runs southward through the Irish channel. The opposition of these two streams destroy each other's force, and renders their celerities scarce sensible in that neighbourhood; but, by accumulating the water in Piel-of-Foudray anchorage, occasions a greater rise of the tide there than in other parts.
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		The stream of tide, near the W. side of Walney, begins to run S.E. at the last quarter of flood on the shore, and continues till it is one quarter flowed, then runs nine hours N.E.
	placename:-	Walney Island
	date:-	1776
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	poem:-	Drayton 1612/1622 text
		Poem, Polyolbion, by Michael Drayton, published 1612, part 2 with Cumbria published by John Marriott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622.
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	placename:-	Isle of Walney
	date:-	1612; 1622
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s; 1620s
	old print:-
		Print, uncoloured engraving, Pile of Fouldrey Castle, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, drawn by G Pickering, engraved by Fenner and Co, published by Fisher, Son and Co, London, 1830s?
		From Walney Island; fishermen on the shore in the foreground with hand nets.
		printed at bottom left, right, centre:-
		Drawn by G. Pickering. / Engraved by Fenner & Co. / PILE OF FOULDREY CASTLE. / FISHER, SON & Co. LONDON.
	person:-	fisherman
	date:-	1830=1839
	period:-	19th century, early
	old map:-	Hydrograpic Office 1850s-90s
		WALNEY ISLAND
	placename:-	Walney Island
	date:-	1850=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s
	old map:-	Hydrographic Office 1850s-90s
		Charts, Irish Sea, Solway Firth, etc, published by the Hydrographic Office, 1850-58.
		coast views on Admiralty chart
		Walney Elbow
		Walney Id.
		Walney Elbow / Walney Island
	placename:-	Walney Island
	date:-	1858
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	references	Cracknell, Basil E: 2005: Outrageous Waves: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, West Sussex):: ISBN 1 86077 344 0
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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