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Bowness-on-Solway

Bowness-on-Solway is a village in , England, and in the historic county of Cumberland. It is situated to the west of Carlisle on the southern side of the estuary separating and .
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  • Type: Village with 1,130 residents
  • Description: village in Cumbria, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mais and St Michael’s Church.

Archaeological site
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maia, or , in , was a Roman fort on , and was the last fort at the western end of the Wall, overlooking the .

Church
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St Michael's Church is in the village of Bowness-on-Solway, , England. It is an active Anglican in the deanery of Carlisle, the archdeaconry of Carlisle, and the diocese of Carlisle.

Archaeological site
was a milefortlet of the Roman Cumbrian Coast defences. These milefortlets and intervening stone watchtowers extended from the western end of , along the coast and were linked by a wooden palisade.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Port Carlisle and Glasson.

Village
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is a coastal village in , , England. It is in the civil parish of Bowness-on-Solway. Its original name was Fisher's Cross, but when it became the terminus of the Carlisle Canal it was renamed .

Village
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is a village in , England, just inland from the Solway coast, eight miles northwest of on the course of near . The place name derives from the Anglo-Scandinavian glaise, meaning "a small stream". is situated 2 miles southeast of Bowness-on-Solway.

Village
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is a small village located in in the south of , the village is located around 2 mi north of the mud and sandbanks of the channel of the , which extends west into the . is situated 2½ miles northeast of Bowness-on-Solway.

Bowness-on-Solway

Latitude
54.9519° or 54° 57′ 7″ north
Longitude
-3.21509° or 3° 12′ 54″ west
Population
1,130
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Open location code
9C6RXQ2M+QX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29278026
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2655050
Wiki­data ID
Q895484
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Welsh—“Bowness-on-Solway” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • Chinese: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • Chinese: “鮑內斯-索爾威鎮”
  • Chinese: “鲍内斯-索尔威镇”
  • Dutch: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • French: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • German: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • Italian: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • Japanese: “ボウネス＝オン＝ソルウェー”
  • Latin: “Blatum Bulgium”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • Persian: “بونس آن سولوی”
  • Polish: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • Swedish: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • Swedish: “Bowness, Allerdale”
  • Turkish: “Bowness-on-Solway”
  • Welsh: “Bowness-on-Solway”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include U Know Who’s and Bowness-on-Solway Roman Fort.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bowness-on-Solway”. Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.