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near to Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria, England
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Solway Firth, Bowness on Solway
Bowness village does not actually face the Solway but there is easy access to the waterfront. This is looking across the muddy estuary to the Dumfriesshire shore.
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Plaque
Plaque set in the side of the porch of the former Wesleyan Chapel in Bowness-on-Solway
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The Hadrian's Wall Path approaching Bowness-on-Solway
If walked from east to west, the Hadrian's Wall Path ends at Bowness-on-Solway. For the last mile or so from Port Carlisle NY2462 walkers have no option but to use the minor road.
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Bowness Foreshore
From the gazebo which marks the western end of the Hadrian's Wall National Trail.
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Lane at Bowness-on-Solway village boundary
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St Michael's Church, Bowness on Solway - May 2017 (14)
Depicting the Good Samaritan, this window in the south wall was given in 1957 by Mrs Moore of Port Carlisle in memory of her husband, Dr W H Moore and her son Dr J H Moore who drowned in the Irish Sea.
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Pear Tree farm, Bowness on Solway
At the western end of the village. An attractive archway with an eye-shaped window above.
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Ordnance Survey benchmark on gatepost
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Rampart Head, Bowness-on-Solway
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Welcome to the Banks, Bowness-on-Solway [2]
One of three panels with much interesting information about the area - history [from the Ice Age, through the Bronze Age, the Roman Occupation, the mediaeval period to the present], natural history, the National Trail and much more.
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Bowness-on-Solway
The narrow main road through Bowness-on-Solway.
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Detached House at Bowness-on-Solway
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