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Wallsend Guest House |
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Luxury bed and breakfast accommodation at The Old Rectory, Bowness on Solway. |
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Local Information 1 |
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Hadrian’s Wall Seventy-six Roman miles of wall ends where it meets the sea at Bowness on Solway. A stone fort (Maia) was built to defend the last fording point across the 3 mile wide Solway Estuary. Over time, the stones were used to construct the village of Bowness on Solway. Today the only visible trace of the Roman constructions lies in the field opposite Wallsend Guest House. Here you can still see the line of the main road into the fort. The site is protected by legislation but sheep still graze over the remains of the camp follower village that still lies unexcavated beneath the bumpy grass.
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The Church, next to Wallsend Guest House, dates back to the Norman period and its magnificent beamed interior was installed in the 19th Century. The Old Rectory. which is now Wallsend Guest House, is first mentioned in 1464 when the rector of Bowness had licence from the Bishop of Carlisle to collect subscriptions in the diocese for the repair of a "house of defence there". It is probable that this refers to a fortified rectory tower. Nothing remains of this "Peel" tower but Burgh-by-Sands church is has a similar defensive tower which can be seen along with the monument to King Edward 1st , "The Hammer of the Scots" nearby |
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St Michaels Church |
