Hollyhead Coastguard

[AndrewIrvine]

but also they had a transmitter in I think Langthwaite, North Yorkshire which covered the Morecambe Bay area.

Langthwaite is in Lancashire near Lancaster.
54.0333 N 2.7658 W
Channel 62 for MIS.

There is also a village called Langthwaite just inside North Yorkshire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langthwaite

[Minus1]

PS It's Holy not Holly. It's on "Holy Island". The conventional pronunciation is a corruption.
Caergybi (Cybi's fort) in Welsh.

[AndrewIrvine]

The Coastguard pronounce it Holly head. It covers where I live

[kiac2802]

PS It's Holy not Holly. It's on "Holy Island". The conventional pronunciation is a corruption.
Caergybi (Cybi's fort) in Welsh.

I didnt check to be fair, i was just going off what i heard from the coastguard transmission

[AndrewIrvine]

It's not uncommon for the coastguard to mispronounce place names. Both Clyde and eventually Belfast pronounce Islay as 'I lay', it's actual pronunciation is 'Aisle Lah', but woe betide anyone in a boat that needs help and gets something wrong...

My home town is Irvine, the 'e' is silent, but Belfast the last I heard pronounced it as the Irish and Americans do, as in, 'Ir vine'.

[kiac2802]

I have seen the same thing with a few places near me,one being Tintwistle

Tried to edit the post to the correct spelling but it wont let me do it