[Talk-GB] Purton Hulks

[Tom Hughes]

On 01/06/16 12:12, Andy Mabbett wrote:

> The Purton Hulks:
>
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purton_Hulks
>
> are a set of boats, which have been deliberately beached on the banks
> of the River Severn, to reinforce the river banks.
>
> The author of the above Wikipedia article and I would like to mark
> each individual hulk on OSM, and to include their coordinates in the
> Wikipedia article.
>
> A Bristol University Survey map of 1996 is on page 6 of:
>
>    http://nauticalarchaeologysociety.org/sites/default/files/u9/purton_report_2008.pdf
>
> Some of the hulks are visible in Bing imagery.
>
> Can anyone assist? How should they be tagged?

I suggest barge=concrete ;-)

Not that I had any trouble believing you could make ships out of 
concrete or anything when I first heard about them as a teenager.

Tom

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