Welcome to Visit Bowness-on-Solway Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Bowness-on-Solway
Visit Bowness-on-Solway places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Bowness-on-Solway places to visit. A unique way to experience Bowness-on-Solway’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Bowness-on-Solway as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Bowness-on-Solway Walkfo Preview Bowness-on-Solway is a village of fewer than 100 houses in northwest Cumbria. It is situated to the west of Carlisle on the southern (English) side of the Solway Firth estuary separating England and Scotland. The western end of Hadrian’s Wall is a notable tourist destination. When you visit Bowness-on-Solway, Walkfo brings Bowness-on-Solway places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Bowness-on-Solway Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Bowness-on-Solway
Visit Bowness-on-Solway – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 15 audio plaques & Bowness-on-Solway places for you to explore in the Bowness-on-Solway area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Bowness-on-Solway places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Bowness-on-Solway etymology
‘Bowness’ means ’rounded’, or bow-shaped headland’, from either the Old English ‘boga’, ‘bow’, and ‘næss’, or, more probably, the Old Norse ‘bogi’ and ‘nes’
Why visit Bowness-on-Solway with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Bowness-on-Solway places with Walkfo Bowness-on-Solway to hear history at Bowness-on-Solway’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Bowness-on-Solway has 15 places to visit in our interactive Bowness-on-Solway map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Bowness-on-Solway, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Bowness-on-Solway places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Bowness-on-Solway & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Bowness-on-Solway tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Bowness-on-Solway
Best Bowness-on-Solway places to visit
Bowness-on-Solway has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Bowness-on-Solway’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Bowness-on-Solway’s information audio spots:
Dornock Dornock is 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Eastriggs and 2 miles (3 km) east of Annan. The name is either from Cumbric durn + -ǭg or Gaelic d�òrnach, meaning ‘place of handstones (fist-sized stones)’
River Annan River Annan rises on Annanhead Hill and flows through the Devil’s Beef Tub, Moffat and Lockerbie. It reaches the sea at Annan, Dumfries and Galloway after about 40 miles.
Milecastle 80 Milecastle 80 was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian’s Wall (grid reference NY22276270)
Mais (Bowness) Maia, or Mais, in Cumbria, England was a Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall. It was the last (or first) fort at the western end of the Wall, overlooking the Solway Firth.
Milefortlet 1 Milefortlet 1 (Biglands House) was a milefortlet of the Roman Cumbrian Coast defences. These milefortlets and intervening stone watchtowers extended from the western end of Hadrian’s Wall.
Milecastle 79 Milecastle 79 (Solway House) was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian’s Wall (grid reference NY23596224)
Milefortlet 2 Milefortlets and intervening stone watchtowers extended from the western end of Hadrian’s Wall, along the Cumbrian coast. The exact location of Milefortlet 2 is unknown, although one of the nearby turrets (Tower 2B) has been located and excavated.
Milecastle 78 Milecastle 78 (Kirkland) was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian’s Wall (grid reference NY245613)
Milecastle 77 Milecastle 77 (Raven Bank) was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian’s Wall (grid reference NY25666068)
Carlisle Canal The Carlisle Canal opened in 1823, to link Carlisle to the Solway Firth. It was a short-lived venture, being replaced by a railway in 1854.
Visit Bowness-on-Solway plaques
0 plaques hereBowness-on-Solway has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Bowness-on-Solway plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Bowness-on-Solway using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Bowness-on-Solway plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Bowness-on-Solway audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Bowness-on-Solway allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Bowness-on-Solway’s 15 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Bowness-on-Solway freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Bowness-on-Solway Map App
Our visit Bowness-on-Solway map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Bowness-on-Solway & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Bowness-on-Solway tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Bowness-on-Solway centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Bowness-on-Solway area at LONG:-3.216, LAT:54.95.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Bowness-on-Solway, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Bowness-on-Solway / surrounding areas
● Dornock ● Battle of Dornock ● River Annan ● Milecastle 80 ● Bowness-on-Solway ● St Michael’s Church, Bowness-on-Solway ● Mais (Bowness) ● Milefortlet 1 ● Milecastle 79 ● Port Carlisle ● Milefortlet 2 ● Milecastle 78 ● Glasson, Bowness ● Milecastle 77 ● Carlisle Canal
Getting to / around Bowness-on-Solway – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Bowness-on-Solway using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Bowness-on-Solway places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Bowness-on-Solway historians & Bowness-on-Solway tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Bowness-on-Solway? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Bowness-on-Solway’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Bowness-on-Solway place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Bowness-on-Solway Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Bowness-on-Solway destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Bowness-on-Solway’ web pages (for example: www.visitBowness-on-Solway.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336
Visit Bowness-on-Solway places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Bowness-on-Solway places to visit. A unique way to experience Bowness-on-Solway’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Bowness-on-Solway as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Bowness-on-Solway places with Walkfo Bowness-on-Solway to hear history at Bowness-on-Solway’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Bowness-on-Solway has 15 places to visit in our interactive Bowness-on-Solway map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Bowness-on-Solway, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Bowness-on-Solway places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Bowness-on-Solway & the surrounding areas.
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