2020

SD2364 : Lifeboat station and Piel Island pier

taken 4 years ago, near to Roa Island, Cumbria, England

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Lifeboat station and Piel Island pier
Lifeboat station and Piel Island pier
Looking out from Roa Island towards Piel Island in the distance.
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 LinkExternal 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 LinkExternal link


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SD2364, 95 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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DS Pugh   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 10 July, 2020   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 19 July, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SD 2328 6470 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:4.3496N 3:10.4360W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SD 23278 64810
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SOUTH (about 180 degrees)
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