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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))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Cumberland Ancient County |
| Place: | Skinburness Marsh |
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