2013
SD2364 : Lifeboat station, Roa Island
taken 11 years ago, near to Roa Island, Cumbria, England
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Lifeboat station, Roa Island
The Barrow lifeboat is situated at the end of this jetty which strikes out southwards from Roa Island. See RNLI website here Link
(Archive Link )
This station is an "Explore" station which means it can be visited (though it wasn't open when I took this photo). See Link (Archive Link ) for details on visiting RNLI stations.
(Archive Link ) This station is an "Explore" station which means it can be visited (though it wasn't open when I took this photo). See Link
(Archive Link ) for details on visiting RNLI stations.
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 2331 6469 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:4.3445N 3:10.4084W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SD 2327 6481
- View Direction
- South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
