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| Name | Bowness on Solway |
| Alt names | Anthorn | source: township in parish | | Drumburgh | source: township in parish | | Fingland | source: township in parish |
| Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 54.95°N 3.216°W |
| Located in | Cumberland, England ( - 1974) |
| See also | Wigton Rural, Cumberland, England | rural district 1894-1974 |
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NOTE: Bowness on Solway should not be confused with the larger and more popular Bowness on Windermere situated on Lake Windermere, further east in the former county of Westmorland. Both towns are now in the administrative county of Cumbria, but before 1974 they were in different counties.
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Bowness on Solway is a village of fewer than 100 houses on the Solway Firth separating England and Scotland. The civil parish had a population of 1,126 at the 2011 UK census. It is in North-West Cumbria to the west of Carlisle on the English side. The western end of Hadrian's Wall is a notable tourist attraction, along with beaches and wading birds.
Bowness on Solway was located in the county of Cumberland, England before 1974.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Bowness from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "BOWNESS, a village, a township, and a parish in Wigton [registration] district, Cumberland. The village stands on the Solway Firth, adjacent to the Port-Carlisle terminus of the Carlisle and Silloth railway, 11 ½ miles WNW of Carlisle; and has a post office under Carlisle. Its site was occupied by the Roman station Tunnocelum, at the western termination of Severns' wall; many of the houses are believed to have been built of materials of the wall and the station; some vestiges of the wall can still be traced; and a Roman road went hence to Maryport. The township includes also Port-Carlisle. Real property: £3,146. Population: 484. Houses: 107.
- "The parish contains also the townships of Fingland, Drumburgh, and Anthorn. Acres: 17,947; of which 8,653 are water. Real property: £9,705. Population: 1,321. Houses: 284. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle. Value: £393. Patron:the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is tolerable. Charities, £24."
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