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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"PIEL, (or Peel Of Fouldrey), an islet in the chapelry of Walney, parish of Dalton-in-Furness, county Lancaster, 6 miles S. byW. of Dalton. It is situated in Morecambe Bay, near Walney Island, and has the remains of an old castle of the Abbots of Furness. Lambert Simnel and his adherents landed here in 1487. There is a line of railway from Piel Pier to Broughton."