2020
SD2364 : Bridge to the lifeboat station
taken 4 years ago, near to Roa Island, Cumbria, England
Bridge to the lifeboat station
Looking towards the lifeboat station on Roa Island. The station houses a Tamar class all weather lifeboat (16-08: Grace Dixon) and a D class Inshore lifeboat. The lifeboat station is named after the nearby town of Barrow. For more information see: Link
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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- SD2364, 95 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- DS Pugh (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Friday, 10 July, 2020 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Sunday, 19 July, 2020
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SD 2329 6476 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:4.3820N 3:10.4278W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SD 23278 64810
- View Direction
- South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
