River Lune to the Irish Sea at Glasson Dock. In 1847 the Commissioners built a pair of lighthouses near Cockersand Abbey to help guide ships into the port. The lower lighthouse, known as the Plover Scar Lighthouse, (sometimes called Abbey lighthouse) still stands on Plover Scar, and it remains operational. The old high light, a square wooden tower, was demolished in 1954; but the former keepers' cottage, built alongside the high light, can still be seen. Lancaster (and hence also Lancashire) is named after the Lune. The name of the ancient hundred of Lonsdale is also derived from the river. The river
Dragutin Jovanović-Lune and in 1927 he was elected deputy. During the shooting of Stjepan Radić (after giving a vitriolic speech against Serbs, especially the fallen in the wars) at the National Assembly on June 20, 1928, Lune happened to be sitting right next Puniša Račić. Unfortunately, Radić died weeks later of gunshot wounds that were badly treated. At the trial in May and in June 1929 Lune had to fend off charges of complicity to the death of the Croatian member of parliament. After these events, Lune left politics and participated only in the work of Chetnik associations led by Kosta Pećanac.