Anthorn

Anthorn, Solway Firth But it is the waders that drew us to the remote Solway estuary. Mudflats, marshes and tidal sands create a wetland teeming with lapwings, oystercatchers, dunlins and curlews, the high tide pushing them onto their saltmarsh roosts.

In Europe the General Lighthouse Authority (GLA) in the UK has modernised the Anthorn station in the UKK but it is thought that both the French and the Norwegian Loran transmitting stations will close down. This will put the whole European Loran ...

Its new home is in Anthorn, Cumbria, after a change of contract. The signal, used to manage a range of electronic networks such as for mobile and speed cameras, is kept in line by referencing two atomic clocks. It is accurate to within 1,000th of a ...

The new home for the signal, which is used to keep the "pips" heard on BBC radio services to time, will be in Anthorn on the west coast of Cumbria. The signal is used to manage a wide range of electronic networks, including cash machines, speed cameras ...