Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROBIN-RIGG-BANK

ROBIN-RIGG-BANK, a shoal off the N W coast of Cumberland; at the E side of the mouth of the Solwayfrith, in the neighbourhood of Allonby. It is 3 mileslong, and 1 mile broad; and it is marked by the Solway light-vessel, placed here in 1841, and showing a light 25feet high.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a shoal"   (ADL Feature Type: "bars (physiographic)")
Administrative units: Cumberland AncC

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