Powfoot Bank
Powfoot Bank is in Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland. Powfoot Bank is situated nearby to the locality Newbie Hills, as well as near Cardurnock Flatts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Annan railway station and Milefortlet 1.
Annan railway station
Railway station
Photo: Chris Newman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Annan is a railway station on the Glasgow South Western Line, which runs between Carlisle and Glasgow Central via Kilmarnock. The station, situated 17 miles 51 chains north-west of Carlisle, serves the town of Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Milefortlet 1
Archaeological site
Milefortlet 1 was a milefortlet of the Roman Cumbrian Coast defences. These milefortlets and intervening stone watchtowers extended from the western end of Hadrian's Wall, along the Cumbrian coast and were linked by a wooden palisade.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Annan and Bowness-on-Solway.
Annan
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Annan is a market town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a population of 8700 in 2022. Many town buildings are a warm red sandstone, but the main visitor attraction is the First World War munitions complex that made "the devil's porridge".
Bowness-on-Solway
Village
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bowness-on-Solway is a village in Cumbria, England, and in the historic county of Cumberland. It is situated to the west of Carlisle on the southern side of the Solway Firth estuary separating England and Scotland.
Cardurnock
Hamlet
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cardurnock is a small settlement in Cumbria, England. It is by the coast, 20 kilometres west of Carlisle. The western extension of the Hadrian's Wall frontier defences once passed through the Cardurnock peninsula, though not the Wall itself.
Powfoot Bank
- Type: Wetland
- Category: body of water
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.9535° or 54° 57′ 13″ northLongitude
-3.3016° or 3° 18′ 6″ westOpen location code
9C6RXM3X+99OpenStreetMap ID
way 291217184OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetland
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