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