The last of the Alphabet Fleet was SS Meigle, built in Glasgow, Scotland in 1886 as Solway by the firm Barclay Curle and Co.
This would have resulted in part of the waters of the River Nith flowing onto the Clyde rather than the Solway, however the development was never carried to fruition.
Blencogo is a small farming village in Cumbria, England, UK, near Wigton on the Solway plain, in the Allerdale Borough Council area, off the B3502 Wigton to Silloth road.
This name was given to a series of earthworks that were thought to mark a frontier perhaps between Strathclyde Britons and the Angles in Galloway and running from Loch Ryan to near Annan on the Solway and perhaps even from coast to coast in association with the Catrail in Roxburghshire.
However, in July 2008 the Dumfries and Galloway Council decided to seek an Empowerment Order under the Harbours Act 1964 which would enable the Council to take over the harbour land and operations, following the pattern of a number of successful harbours along the Solway coast.
Solway is the second largest suburb in the town after Lansdowne.
The Water of Fleet is a river in Scotland flowing into Fleet Bay on the Solway.
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It is about one and a half miles south of the Solway Firth, and its purpose was to guard the south end of two important Solway fords, the Peat Wath and the Sandwath, favourite routes for medieval border raiders.
Though they tried to live together in Bower's city, Los Angeles, for a time, they did not spend enough time together for the relationship to be viable, as Solway had to spend too much time in Toronto.
Coggabata, or Congavata / Concavata, (with the modern name of Drumburgh) was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, between Aballava (Burgh by Sands) to the east and Mais (Bowness on Solway) to the west.
In 2000 it acquired a 40% stake in Solway Foods (later increased to 100%) and R&K Wise and in 2002 it bought Lacemont and Fox's Confectionery.
Brad Haddin (NSW, Australia); Mark Higgs (cricketer) (NSW, SA, Australia); Lea Hansen (Vic, Australia A); Neil Bulger (Aust. Indigenous); Peter Solway (Aust. Country); John Bull (Aust. Country); Colin Crouch (Aust. Country); Michael Spaseski (Aust. Country); Em Preston (Aust. u/21).
The Ministry of Defence had by 1999 fired more than 6,350 depleted uranium rounds into the Solway Firth from its testing range at Dundrennan Range.
The Solway Junction Railway ran between the Caledonian Railway near Kirtlebridge and the Brayton station of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway.