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| coast, Bowness-on-Solway | ||
| site name:- | coast, Solway Firth | |
| locality:- | Bowness-on-Solway | |
| civil parish:- | Bowness (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | coast | |
| coordinates:- | NY222628 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2262 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY26 | |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- item:- fishing boat; boat |
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| source data:- | Painting, oil painting, The Old Windmill, Bowness-on-Solway, Bowness, Cumberland,
about 1858. click to enlargePR1148.jpg View along the sandy foreshore with a small sailing boat moored in the shallows in which a single fisherman tends to his nets. To left, a youth strides across the sand with a net slung over his shoulder. Yatchs sail on the estuary beyond which rise distant hazy hills. To right of foreground nets stand drying. A gentle grassy slope with a windmill standing on it leads down to the foreshore to right of composition. item:- Tullie House Museum : 1973.76 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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