Bowness-on-Solway is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Bowness-on-Solway postcode: CA7 5AF

Retail in Bowness-on-Solway

There are great places to visit near Bowness-on-Solway including some great hills, hiking areas, villages, ancient sites, ruins, old mines, waterfalls, rivers and streams, lakes, woodlands, towns, mountains, castles, historic buildings, historic monuments, caves, bluebell woods, nature reserves, disused railway lines, airports and islands.

There are a number of hills near Bowness-on-Solway including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Bowness-on-Solway has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Bowness-on-Solway boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Bowness-on-Solway if you like ancient sites.

Bowness-on-Solway has some unmissable ruins nearby like Bonsor East Mine Workings, Bonsor Dressing Floors, Penny Rigg Copper Mill, Appletree Worth, Stephenson Ground Limekiln (ruin), Water Yeat Limekiln (ruin), and Hebblethwaite Hall Gill.

Old Mines to visit near Bowness-on-Solway include Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Bowness-on-Solway has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are great places to visit near Bowness-on-Solway if you like rivers and streams.

The area around Bowness-on-Solway boasts some of the best lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood are great places to visit near Bowness-on-Solway if you like woodlands.

There are a several good towns in the Bowness-on-Solway area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Bowness-on-Solway if you like mountains.

Castles to visit near Bowness-on-Solway include Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

The area around Bowness-on-Solway features a number of interesting historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Fairy Steps is a great place to visit close to Bowness-on-Solway if you like historic monuments.

Caves to visit near Bowness-on-Solway include Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

There are a number of bluebell woods near Bowness-on-Solway including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Bowness-on-Solway if you like nature reserves.

The area close to Bowness-on-Solway boasts some of the best disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Bowness-on-Solway if you like airports.

Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Bowness-on-Solway if you like islands.

Bowness-on-Solway History

There are some historic monuments around Bowness-on-Solway:

• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track south of Kirkland House and Bowness-on-Solway in wall miles 78 and 79
• Calvertsholm Cottages, cairn 320m NNW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM11950
• Annan Hill Roman camp Roman: camp SM4273
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercourse 400m south east of Glasson and the access road to Glendale caravan park in wall miles 76 and 77
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the access road to Glendale caravan park and the track south of Kirkland House in wall miles 77 and 78
• Hayknowes, settlement 180m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12092
• Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall between Burgh Marsh and Westfield House in wall miles 76 and 77
• Merkland Cross, Woodhouse Crosses and carved stones: cross (free-standing) SM90217
• Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Havens
• The Roman fort and associated civil settlement and a medieval tower house at Bowness on Solway at the west end of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 80
• Herd Hill North (tower 3b), 175m north east of the sheep wash, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Biglands House (milefortlet 1) and associated parallel ditches, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Gleningle, enclosure 80m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM12001
• Broats, enclosure 250m N of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM4087
• Mote of Annan, motte-and-bailey castle, 70m SSW of Moat House Secular: motte SM702
• Bonshaw Tile Works, NW of Bonshawside, Kirtlebridge Industrial: pottery SM7554
• Calvertsholm, settlement 110m N of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12128
• Hoddom Church, church, burial ground and monastery Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard SM2690
• Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House, Port Carlisle in wall mile 78
• Pasture House (milefortlet 3), part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Pasture House turret 3a
• Kirkbride Roman fort, part of associated vicus and length of Roman road around, 370m south east of Whitrigg Bridge
• Down Hall moated site
• Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth, Westfield, and the dismantled railway in wall mile 77
• Herd Hill (milefortlet 4) and associated parallel banks and ditches, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Cardurnock milefortlet (Mf 5)
• St Bryde's Kirk, church 95m W of Brydekirk Mains Ecclesiastical: church SM12185
• Blacketlees Cottages, enclosure 75m SSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12027
• Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled railway and the access road to Glendale caravan park in wall mile 77
• Blackyett, cairn 225m E of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM11951
• Cardurnock Marsh turret 4a
• Robgill Tower, fort 90m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM12157
• Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and Bowness-on-Solway in wall miles 78 and 79
• Woodhouse Tower, tower house Secular: castle SM12071
• Woodfield, enclosure 295m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12029
• Prehistoric enclosure and trackway, and a Romano-British farmstead WNW of Fingland
• Westhills, altar stone 35m N of Roman: altar SM11980
• Burnbrae, enclosure 270m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12189
• Robgill Mains, cairn 320m E of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM11987
• Calvertsholm Cottages, cairn 315m WNW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM11947
• Annan old graveyard, recumbent grave marker 45m ENE of town hall Crosses and carved stones: inscribed stone SM12183
• Woodhead,enclosure 200m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM4090
• Campfield (tower 2b) and associated parallel ditches and Roman road, 350m south west of Campfield Farm part of Roman frontier defences along Cumbrian coast
• Cardurnock (tower 4b) and earlier ditch system and patrol road, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast