Back to Walney Island: The Lighthouse and Piel Castle.

During 1789 ‘Lancaster merchants’ petitioned Parliament and were successful in having leave granted to them in order to construct a lighthouse on the south-end peninsula of Walney-Island at Haws Point, adjacent to the 'high water mark'. It gives an understanding to the amount of land now re-deposited at the site as the lighthouse is now completely surrounded by land. This is the lighthouse.

Piel Castle stands on the South-Eastern point of Piel Island at the mouth of the deep-water harbour of Barrow-in-Furness, guarding the passage to and from Furness Abbey's holdings in Ireland and the Isle of Man. The Abbot and convent were granted a licence to crenellate their dwelling-house in 1372 by Edward III, which suggests the fortification of an existing building.