A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
SOLWAY FRITH, a projection of the Irish sea between Cumberland and Scotland. It enters between St. Bees Head and Wigton bay, with a width of 22 miles; goes 37 miles north-eastward and eastward, with a width diminishing to less than 2 miles; sends off Morecambe bay, into Cumberland, to the mouths of the rivers Weaver and Wampool; receives at its head, within Cumberland, the rivers Eden and Esk; is swept by a tidal "bore,'' with a breast of waters several feet high, running with perilous rapidity, and leaving most of the area dry at the recess; abounds with salmon and other fish; has been the scene of many disasters, on the part of footmen or horsemen crossing its sands at low water; and figures graphically in Sir Walter Scott's "Redgauntlet."
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a projection" (ADL Feature Type: "ridges") |
| Administrative units: | Cumberland AncC |
| Place: | Solway Firth |
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