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place:- beacon, Walney Island
locality:- Walney Island
parish Barrow-in-Furness borough, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
beacon; sea mark
coordinates:- SD23526215
10Km square:- SD26

1Km square SD2362

source:- OS County Series (Lan 28)

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 New Light House (Fixed [Red] Light)

placename:- Walney New Light House
lighthouse
date:- 1847=1851
period:- 19th century, late; 1840s; 1850s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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