Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OWERS

OWERS, a shoal in the English channel; off Sussex; outside the Mixon and other shoals, 6 miles S E of Selsey Bill. A floating light is on it, put up in 1788, and visible at the distance of 10 miles.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a shoal"   (ADL Feature Type: "bars (physiographic)")
Administrative units: Sussex AncC

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