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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… unites with it about two miles from Selkirk. Yell YELL, an island, in the county of Shetland; containing 3450 inhabitants. This island, one of the most northern of the Shetland group, lies … 400 feet in height, extend almost the whole length of the island, in a nearly parallel direction from north to south, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… About the commencement of the reign of Charles I., an island, since called Sunk Island, began to appear in the Humber, nearly opposite … was left dry, and embanked in the same manner as Sunk Island, is particularly worthy of notice. The third natural …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… of Visitation of Marie of the Order of Chartusen, in the island of Axholme Lands in Owthorne. John Sotheby William …
A History of the County of Somerset
… to be young birds which may have been hatched out on the island. 129. Shag or Green Cormorant. Phalacrocorax graculus … 1888. Three were shot out of a flock of eleven on Steart Island on May 25, 1888, and on the same day two were seen at … coast in autumn and winter. Several pairs breed on Steart Island, Steart Point, on the sand dunes near Berrow church …
A History of the County of Somerset
… may sometimes make its way up the Channel from Lundy Island, and it is highly probable that the river crayfish, …