Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Walney Lighthouse | |
| site name:- | Walney Island | |
| parish |
Barrow-in-Furness borough,
once in Lancashire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| lighthouse | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD23016205 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD26
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| 1Km square | SD2362 | |
 Walney Lighthouse -- Walney Island -- Barrow-in-Furness -- Cumbria / -- From Piel Island. -- 16.8.2008 | ||
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Lan 28 9)
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| 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. | ||
| Walney Light House (Revolving Light) | ||
| placename:- | Walney Lighthouse | |
| lighthouse | ||
| date:- | 1890=1899 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
| old map:- |
Hydrographic Office
1850s-90s
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| Charts, Irish Sea, Solway Firth, etc, published by the Hydrographic Office, 1850-58. | ||
| coast view on Admiralty chart | ||
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| Walney Light ... | ||
| placename:- | Walney Light | |
| date:- | 1858 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s | |
| old map:- |
Walker 1842
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| Chart, Position of all the Lighthouses in the British Isles, scale about 38 nautical miles to 1 inch, published by J and A Walker, 72 South Castle Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, 1842. | ||
| marked as a coast light, S end of Walney Island | ||
| Revolves once in 5 minutes | ||
| placename:- | Walney Light | |
| date:- | 1842 | |
| period:- | 19th century, early; 1840s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| WALNEY LIGHTHOUSE WITH TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS / / SOUTH END / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 388601 / SD2301962058 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Lighthouse with attached pair of cottages and storeroom. 1790. For the Lancaster Quay Commissioners (Barnes); cottages altered C19. Lighthouse is dressed, painted stone; cottages stuccoed and with slate roofs. U-shaped group with octagonal lighthouse linking pair of 2-storey 2-window cottages and single-storey outbuilding; pebbled courtyard. Lighthouse: tapered and with slit windows; iron balcony around fully-glazed lantern housing, hipped roof with finial. Cottage to left has door in 1-storey link to lighthouse; two C20 six-pane casements to each floor. Cottage to right has gabled porch with door in left return and 6-pane sashes; the upper windows in half-dormers. Coped gables; end and central stacks. Outbuilding: 2 boarded doors and two 12-pane casements, monoclinal roof. Authorised by Act of Parliament in 1789. Built using stone from Overton near Lancaster at a cost of "1,100. The lighthouse is of particular importance within the group. (Barnes F: Barrow and District: Barrow in Furness: 1968-: 91). | ||
| district:- | Barrow in Furness | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD23016205 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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