Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SKINBURNESS

SKINBURNESS, a village in Holme-Cultram parish, Cumberland; on the coast, 1¾ mile NNE of Silloth r. station. It was anciently an important place, destroyed by an irruption of the sea about the beginning of the 14th century; and is now a sea-bathing resort, and a place of herring-fishery.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Cumberland AncC
Place: Skinburness Marsh

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