Solway Coast: Britain's Heritage Coast
Solway Coast: Britain's Heritage Coast The name Solway - path of the sun - speaks for itself. This most beautiful and dangerous of seas has a tidal average of 30 feet that can reach 25/30 miles per…
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Solway Coast: Britain's Heritage Coast
The name Solway - path of the sun - speaks for itself. This most beautiful and dangerous of seas has a tidal average of 30 feet that can reach 25/30 miles per hour, the average speed of a galloping horse. At certain times, the sea in the Solway Firth resembles a sheet of shimmering gold, a phenomenon that has given rise to many legends.
The Solway lies at the heart of the old Northern Lands and around its shores there is evidence of occupation and industry from prehistory up to the present day. Evidence of the sea's power has been well documented: in the 1700s an entire town was washed away into the Solway during a single storm. Starting on the west side of the Solway, Helen Ivison takes the reader on a visual tour of this fascinating coastline, Whithorn to the village of St Bees further south.
Themes covered include history, folklore, flora and fauna, saints, rivers, fishing, ports,
Solway Firth, Wigton and Silloth
Coast to Coast Walk
Coast to Coast Walk
Highland Heritage