A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Bowness.-- par. and ry. sta., E. Cumberland, on Solway Firth, at S. end of ry. viaduct, 2½ miles S. of Annan (Scotland) and 12 miles NW. of Carlisle, 1191 ac. and 10,553 foreshore, pop. 1369; P.O., T.O. There are traces of the Roman wall of Severus.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "parish and railway station" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Bowness AP/CP Cumberland AncC |
| Place: | Bowness |
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