2013
SD2364 : Boat park, Roa Island
taken 12 years ago, near to Roa Island, Cumbria, England
Boat park, Roa Island
A little spit of land - the thumb of the boxing glove in my metaphor - sticks out on the western side of Roa Island. A fair quantity of sailing boats are beached here.
Roa Island
Roa island is shaped a little like a boxing glove with the thumb sticking out! It is nowadays permanently causewayed to the mainland at Rampside, the road across this causeway being called the "Roa Island Road" not unreasonably.
It has an area of about 3ha (7½ acres) and a population of c.100 making it England's 15th most populous offshore island! see Link
The island ceased to be truly insular when the causeway was completed in 1846 at the expense of the island's then owner John Abel Smith, a London banker and MP for Chichester & Midhurst.
Wikipedia article on Roa Island Link
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- Grid Square
- SD2364, 95 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Rob Farrow (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Sunday, 20 October, 2013 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Monday, 21 October, 2013
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SD 2308 6496 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:4.4880N 3:10.6233W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SD 2316 6487
- View Direction
- Northwest (about 315 degrees)
