Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Whitehaven Harbour
	locality:-	Whitehaven
	parish	Whitehaven borough, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		harbour
	coordinates:-	NX970184
	10Km square:-	NX91
	1Km square	NX9718
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Harbour entrance -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Sea lock, outer gate. -- 15.7.2008
	old map:-	OS County Series (Cmd 67 2)
		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.
		railways in North Harbour
	site name:-	Whitehaven Junction Railway
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 172:-
		[Whitehaven] ... The harbour is large and safe, being protected by an extensive pier, built after a design by Sir John Rennie. Upwards of 140,000 chaldrons of coals are annually exported.
	person:-	: Rennie, John, Sir
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old text:-	Mackenzie 1776
		Pages 23-24:-
		... ...
		HARBOURS. / WHITEHAVEN Harbour.
		On the English side of Solway Firth. / Whitehaven is a dry Harbour, divided into several basons, by strong kays that break off the sea, and shelter vessels within them: that within the second kay as you enter, is the best for large vessels that draw above ten feet water. In this bason there are seventeen or eighteen feet at high-water with spring-tide, and nine or ten at high-water with neap-tide. There is a light kept on St. Bee's Head to shew vessels into Solway Firth at night: and when there are eight feet of water in the Harbour of Whitehaven, colours are hoisted in the day on one of the pier-ends, and a lanthorn light at night.
		High-water at eleven. / In this Harbour it is high-water on full and change days at eleven hours.
		Rise of the Tide. / Spring-tide off the Harbour rises twenty feet perpendicular; neap-tide ten.
	placename:-	Whitehaven Harbour
	date:-	1776
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		recognizable bay
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	descriptive text:-	Collins 1693 (edn 1753)
		The text accompanying the chart, page 8 of the 1753 edn:-
		White Haven / A little to the northward of St. Bees Head lieth White Haven, being a good dry Pier, where great Ships take in Sea-Coals, and carry them to Dublin in Ireland. This place belongeth to Sir John Lowther. / ...
	placename:-	White Haven
	person:-	: Lowther, John, Sir
	date:-	1693
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old directory:-	Jollie 1811
	person:-	sailor
	date:-	1811
	period:-	19th century, early; 1810s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		NORTH WALL AND OLD NORTH WALL (ENCLOSING NORTH HARBOUR) / / / WHITEHAVEN / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75899 / NX9708018538
		courtesy of English Heritage
		C18 pier enclosing the inner harbour on the North, built of stone. Omit 1841 extension called North Pier.
	district:-	Copeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NX97081853
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	old print:-	Robertson 1911
		Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere, Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Print, lithograph? Whitehaven Pier and St Bees Head, from Moresby, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Tipped in opposite p.36 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson.
		printed at bottom:-
		WHITEHAVEN PIER AND ST. BEE'S HEAD, FROM MORESBY
		signed at painting lower left:-
		Arthur Tucker
	date:-	1911
	period:-	1910s
	old print:-
		Print, uncoloured engraving, Whitehaven Harbour, Whitehaven, Cumberland, drawn by W H Bartlett, engraved by J C Arnytage, early 19th century?
		printed at bottom left, right, centre:-
		W. H. Bartlett. / J. C. Armytage. / WHITEHAVEN HARBOUR.
	placename:-	Whitehaven Harbour
	date:-	1800=1839
	period:-	19th century, early
	old print:-
		Print, uncoloured engraving, Whitehaven, Cumberland, drawn by W H Bartlett, engraved by J C Redaway, published 1840s.
		Probably from Findens Views of the Ports, Harbours, Coast Scenery, and Watering Places of Great Britain, as continued by W H Bartlett.
		printed at bottom left, right, centre:-
		W. H. Bartlett. / J. C. Redaway. / WHITEHAVEN, / (with St. Bees-head.)
	date:-	1840=1849
	period:-	19th century, early
	old map:-	Walker 1842
		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 with a harbour light
		Whitehaven - Two Lights - The Inner one steady, and shewn only whilst there is 9 feet water between the Pier-heads, the Outer one revolves, and is shewn throughout the night.
	date:-	1842
	period:-	19th century, early; 1840s
		photographs
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Sea lock, inner gate. -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Lock gate to inner harbour? -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Fishing off the harbour wall. -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Whitehaven Boatyard -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Seat. -- 15.7.2008
		photographs
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Fishing boat, Bonnie Lass. -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Fishing boat, Bonnie Lass. -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Fishing boat, Bonnie Lass. -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Fishing boat, Bonnie Lass. -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Fishing boat, Bonnie Lass. -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Fishing boats. -- 15.7.2008
		Whitehaven Harbour -- Whitehaven -- Whitehaven -- Cumbria / -- Fishing boat. -- 15.7.2008
	hearsay	The Old Quay was begun by Robert Storey, 1634. The lighthouse was built 1710. In 1758 the harbour exported coal to Ireland. Daniel Defoe wrote that the port was:- the most eminent Port of England for shipping off coals, for they wholly supply the City of Dublin, and all the Towns of Ireland on that coast. The harbour imported tobacco from America for onward export to Europe. The West Pier and North Pier were designed by James Rennie, 1823-33; Sir James Brunlees was consultant engineer for the Queen's Dock , 1872-76.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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