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tower, Bowness-on-Solway
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Bowness-on-Solway Tower
Old Rectory
locality:-   Bowness-on-Solway
civil parish:-   Bowness (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   pele tower (site) 
coordinates:-   NY22426258
1Km square:-   NY2262
10Km square:-   NY26

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 14 4) 
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.
"Peel Tower (Site of)"

notes:-  
15th century pele tower, 16th century bastle, watch towr and barmkin

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan

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