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Bowness Wath
site name:-   Solway Firth
civil parish:-   Bowness (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   ford
coordinates:-   NY21466371 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2163
10Km square:-   NY26
country:-   Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 14 4) 
placename:-  Bowness Wath
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

hearsay:-  
The probable track of this Solway Crossing is from Bowness-on-Solway to Seafield, Scotland, via the Altar Stone.

mapping:-   [Bowness-on-Solway, Bowness]
 Altar Stone, Scotland
 Seafield, Scotland

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