The Solway Plain or Solway Basin is a coastal plain located mostly in northwest Cumbria in England, extending just over the Scottish border to the low-lying...
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Scottish term for inlets of the sea) divides Cumbria (including the Solway Plain) from Dumfries and Galloway. It stretches from St Bees Head, just south...
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European Plain North Northumberland Coastal Plain (Northern England) North Somerset Levels (North Somerset, England) Salisbury Plain (England) Solway Plain (Cumbria...
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north-westerly direction through the Vale of Eden and Solway Plain before reaching the sea at the Solway Firth. The river was known to the Romans as the Itouna...
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Lake District. Wigton is at the centre of the Solway Plain, between the Caldbeck Fells and the Solway coast. It is served by Wigton railway station on...
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runs south-east to north-west across the county and broadens into the Solway Plain near Carlisle. To the north-east are part of the Border Moors and to...
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Solway Moss, 1542 battle between England and Scotland Solway Plain, stretching from the edge of the northern fells of Cumbria (England) to the Solway...
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with the River Esk; the last high ground before the Esk reaches the Solway Plain. The Liddel Water (upstream of the confluence) and the Esk (downstream)...
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situated where good agricultural ground was to be found in the Solway Plain, the West Coastal Plain, and in the valleys of the Eden, Petteril, and Lune. Most...
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to the deer". Historical speculation has the Carvetii occupying the Solway Plain, the area immediately south of Hadrian's Wall, the Eden Valley, and possibly...
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route which would run diagonally across the Southern Uplands to the Solway Plain and Carlisle, a distance of some 98 miles (158 km). The first step in...
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European Parliamentary Constituency. In June 2012, it became clear that the Solway Plain between Silloth, Abbeytown and Westnewton has been identified as a potential...
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the Lake District dome, chiefly in the Eden Valley, the Solway plain, the West Cumberland plain and the Kent valley. The Wars of the Roses, fought between...
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History Group (2004). Plain People: Bygone Times on the Solway Plain. p. 80. ISBN 0954882318. Holme St. Cuthbert History Group (2004). Plain People: Bygone Times...
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Cargo is a small village near the River Eden on the Solway Plain. Cargo is about 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) northwest of Carlisle in Cumbria in the North West...
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the north-east. Crosby Villa lies on the Solway Plain, less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the boundary of the Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...
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possibly Bowness-on-Solway. Other watchtowers at Crooklands, Cummersdale and Gamelsby Ridge protecting the agricultural coastal plain may also have existed...
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Beckfoot. Holme St. Cuthbert History Group (2004). Plain People - Bygone Times on the Solway Plain. ISBN 0954882318. "Google Maps - The beck at Beckfoot"...
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Plain People: Bygone Times on the Solway Plain. ISBN 0954882318. Holme St. Cuthbert History Group (2004). Plain People: Bygone Times on the Solway Plain...
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to the paucity of available stone in this part of England around the Solway Plain; the Wall was later rebuilt in stone. In 122 AD, the Romans constructed...
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Solway is an old-established residential suburb near the Waingawa River in the south-western part of Masterton, the principal town in the Wairarapa Valley...
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Bowness was a station which served Bowness-on-Solway, a village in Cumbria on the English side of the Solway Firth. The station opened on 8 August 1870 by...
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given its size, would have been a distinctive landmark on the flat Solway Plain for several millennia. The Lochmaben stone has had a wide range of names...
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Blitterlees was fortified, as a series of milefortlets were built along the Solway plain, extending beyond the western end of Hadrian's Wall. The closest milefortlet...
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Solway, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of six local churches to form the Solway Plain...
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web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Welcome to The Solway Plain". Solway Plain Churches. 13 February 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017. "Broughton...
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fire British History Online: the Register and Records of Holme Cultram Solway Plain past and present – The Abbey Archived 3 December 2010 at the Wayback...
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Carlisle West (6) Two Rivers (7) Heart of the City (8) Carlisle South (9) Solway Plain (10) Criffel View (11) Workington (12) East of Eden (13) Penrith West...
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Plain People: Bygone Times on the Solway Plain. ISBN 0954882318. Holme St. Cuthbert History Group (2004). Plain People: Bygone Times on the Solway Plain...
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settlement, however, comes from the site of Plasketlands, near Mawbray on the Solway Plain...". Here, a ditched enclosure with large post-holes in an 'annexe' was...
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