Bowness, a village a township, and a parish in Cumberland. The village stands on the Solway Firth, adjacent to the Port-Carlisle terminus of the Carlisle and Silloth railway, 11 1/2 miles WNW of Carlisle, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Burgh-by-Sands (R.S.O.), and a station on the Caledonian (Solway) railway. Its site was occupied by the Eoman station Tunnocelum at the western termination of Severus' wall. Many of the houses are believed to have been built of materials of the wall and the station. Some vestiges of the wall can still be traced, and a Eoman road went hence to Mary-port. There is a fine viaduct, more than a mile long, crossing the Solway near here in connection with the Solway Junction railway. This place is a favourite summer resort on account of its good bathing. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the salmon fishery. The township includes Port-Carlisle. Acreage, 11,177; population, 1322. The parish contains also Easton, Fingland, Cardumock, Drum-burgh, and Glasson. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, ?311 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is an ancient building dating back to about the llth century, and has been recently restored. There is also a Wesleyan chapel.
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