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.

Bowness-on-Solway has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Bowness-on-Solway's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Villages to visit near Bowness-on-Solway include 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 some of Bowness-on-Solway best ancient sites to visit near Bowness-on-Solway.

There are a number of ruins near Bowness-on-Solway including 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.

Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are great places to visit near Bowness-on-Solway if you like waterfalls.

Don't miss River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Bowness-on-Solway.

Bowness-on-Solway has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

The area around Bowness-on-Solway boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Bowness-on-Solway has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Don't miss Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell's mountains if visiting the area around Bowness-on-Solway.

Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are great places to visit near Bowness-on-Solway if you like castles.

Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are great places to visit near Bowness-on-Solway if you like historic buildings.

The area around Bowness-on-Solway's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.

The area around Bowness-on-Solway boasts some of the best caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Bowness-on-Solway best bluebell woods to visit near Bowness-on-Solway.

There are a several good nature reserves in the area around Bowness-on-Solway like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Bowness-on-Solway.

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

There are a several good islands in the area around Bowness-on-Solway like Piel Island.

Bowness-on-Solway History

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

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