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SILVER PIT, a depression in the North Sea; 16 miles E of Saltfleet, in Lincoln. It is about 5 miles long, and has depths of from 27 to 47 fathoms; while the seabottom around it has depths of only from 9 to 18 fathoms.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a depression" (ADL Feature Type: "gaps") |
Administrative units: | Lincolnshire AncC |
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