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Bowness-on-Solway
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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. The civil parish had a population of 1,126 at the 2011 census. The western end of Hadrian's Wall is a notable tourist destination, though the Wall itself is no longer to be seen here above ground. The west end start/ finish point of the Hadrian's Wall Path - an 84 mile (135 Km) long National Trail stretching coast to coast across northern England - is marked by a pavilion on the sma
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Michael's Church, Bowness-on-Solway.jpeg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St. Michael's Church, Bowness-on-Solway
- UK place.official_name
- Bowness-on-Solway
- UK place.population
- 1,126
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Bowness
- UK place.unitary_england
- Cumberland
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Cumbria
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Penrith and Solway
- UK place.post_town
- WIGTON
- UK place.postcode_district
- CA7
- UK place.postcode_area
- CA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01697
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NY220623
- UK place.pushpin_map
- United Kingdom Allerdale
- UK place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Allerdale, Cumbria
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1126
- Body of water
- Solway Firth
- Image
- The Kings Arms, Bowness-on-Solway - geograph.org.uk - 4976069.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01697
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- Commons category
- Bowness-on-Solway
- postal code
- CA7
- OS grid reference
- NY220623
- historic county
- Cumberland
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- Roman era
- Governance
- St Michael's Church
- Solway Viaduct
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
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. The civil parish had a population of 1,126 at the 2011 census. The western end of Hadrian's Wall is a notable tourist destination, though the Wall itself is no longer to be seen here above ground. The west end start/ finish point of the Hadrian's Wall Path - an 84 mile (135 Km) long National Trail stretching coast to coast across northern England - is marked by a pavilion on the small coastal cliff at Bowness. The village is part of the Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
==Toponymy== 'Bowness' means 'rounded', or 'bow-shaped headland', from either the Old English 'boga', 'bow', and 'næss', or, more probably, the Old Norse 'bogi' and 'nes'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bowness-on-Solway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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