Snab Sands
Snab Sands is in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Snab Sands is situated nearby to the locality Pickle Scar, as well as near Meeting Scar.Places of Interest
Highlights include Piel Castle and Piel Island.
Piel Castle
Castle
Photo: Arnold Price, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Piel Castle, also known as Fouldry Castle or the Pile of Fouldray, is a castle situated on the south-eastern point of Piel Island, off the coast of the Furness Peninsula in north-west England.
Piel Island
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Piel Island lies in Morecambe Bay, around 1⁄2 mile off the southern tip of the Furness peninsula in the administrative county of Cumbria, England. It is one of the Islands of Furness, three of which sit near to Piel at the mouth of Walney Channel.
Sheep Island
Islet
Sheep Island is an uninhabited grassy island of around 15 acres, located just over 1⁄4 mile from the shore of Walney Island, opposite Snab Point. It is one of the Islands of Furness and is in Westmorland and Furness in Cumbria in northwest England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barrow-in-Furness and Roa Island.
Barrow-in-Furness
Photo: Stevvvv4444, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Barrow-in-Furness is an industrial town and seaport in Cumbria, at the tip of the Furness peninsula. Many visitors come to Barrow for the Dock Museum, which tells the history of steelworks, the shipyard and the Barrow Blitz.
Roa Island
Village
Photo: Malcolm Carruthers, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roa Island lies just over half a mile south of the village of Rampside at the southernmost point of the Furness Peninsula in Cumbria, formerly in the county of Lancashire north of the sands.
Rampside
Village
Photo: Vishnumukundan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rampside is a village in Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is located a few miles south-east of the town of Barrow-in-Furness, in the north-western corner of Morecambe Bay on the Furness peninsula.
Snab Sands
- Type: Wetland
- Category: body of water
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.0722° or 54° 4′ 20″ northLongitude
-3.2008° or 3° 12′ 3″ westOpen location code
9C6R3QCX+VMOpenStreetMap ID
way 1183870523OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetland
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