Solway may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Solway, a neighbourhood of
Ashburton, Victoria
Ashburton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, southeast of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Ashburton recorded a population of 7,952 at the .
Ashburton is known fo ...
. a suburb of Melbourne
New Zealand
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Solway, New Zealand
Solway is an old-established residential suburb near the Waingawa River in the south-western part of Masterton, the principal town in the Wairarapa Valley of New Zealand's North Island. It was a small part of Manaia run on which Masterton is bu ...
, a suburb of Masterton
United Kingdom
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Solway Firth
The Solway Firth ( gd, Tràchd Romhra) is a firth that forms part of the border between England and Scotland, between Cumbria (including the Solway Plain) and Dumfries and Galloway. It stretches from St Bees Head, just south of Whitehaven ...
, the inlet between the north west of England and southern Scotland
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Solway Coast
The Solway Coast is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in northern Cumbria, United Kingdom. It incorporates two areas of coastline along the Solway Firth, the first running from just north of the city of Carlisle, at the estuary ...
, designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in northern Cumbria
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Solway Moss
Solway Moss, also known as Solway Flow, is a moss (lowland peat bog), in the City of Carlisle in Cumbria, England near the Scottish border and less than west of Longtown at . In 2005 the moss was the subject of a campaign by organisations inclu ...
, lowland peat bog in Cumbria, England, near the Scottish border
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Battle of Solway Moss
The Battle of Solway Moss took place on Solway Moss near the River Esk on the English side of the Anglo-Scottish border in November 1542 between English and Scottish forces.
The Scottish King James V had refused to break from the Catholic Chu ...
, 1542 battle between England and Scotland
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Solway Plain
The Solway Plain or Solway Basin is a coastal plain located mostly in northwest Cumbria in England, extending just over the Scottish border to the low-lying area around Gretna and Annan. It lies generally north and west of Carlisle along the Sol ...
, stretching from the edge of the northern fells of Cumbria (England) to the Solway Firth and for some miles around Carlisle, and also along the Scottish border of the Firth
United States
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Solway, Minnesota
Solway is a city in Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 96 at the 2010 census. Solway serves as a bedroom community for nearby Bemidji.
History
A post office has called Solway has been in operation since 1898. The cit ...
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Solway Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota
Solway Township is a township in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,944 at the 2010 census. Solway Township was named after Solway Firth.
U.S. Highway 2 and State Highway 194 ( MN 194) are two of the main routes i ...
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Solway, Tennessee
Solway is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Tennessee, United States. The United States Geographic Names System classifies Solway as a populated place. The area is located between Oak Ridge and Knoxville, just southeast of the Clinch R ...
People with the surname
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David Solway
David Solway (born 8 December 1941) is a Canadian poet, educational theorist, travel writer and literary critic.
He is a member of the Jubilate Circle and formerly a teacher of English Literature at John Abbott College. He has spent most of his ...
, Canadian poet
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Larry Solway
Lawrence S. "Larry" Solway (13 August 1928 – 9 January 2012) was a Canadian actor and broadcaster.
Career
During the 1960s he hosted radio programmes at CHUM in Toronto such as the early Canadian talk show ''Speak Your Mind''. He left t ...
, Canadian actor and broadcaster
Ships
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ST ''Solway'', a tug
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Solway Lass
''Solway Lass'' is a two-masted schooner. She was built in the Netherlands in 1902 and is currently operated out of Airlie Beach, Australia as a holiday sailor in the Whitsunday Islands.
History
The ship, originally named ''Stina'', was built o ...
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Solway Harvester
The ''Solway Harvester'' was a scallop dredger from Kirkcudbright, Scotland which sank off the coast of Douglas, Isle of Man in heavy seas on 11 January 2000 with the loss of all seven crew members. Following salvage, the damaged ship was take ...
'', a commercial trawler sunk off the Isle of Man in January 2000
Other
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Solway Star F.C.
Solway Star Football Club were a football club based in Annan, Scotland, playing their home games at Kimmeter Park Green.D. Pickering, ''The Cassell Soccer Companion'', London: Cassell, 1995, p. 294 The club were members of the Scottish Footba ...
, a defunct Scottish football club
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Solway Group
The Solway Investment Group Limited, (The company is a legal successor of Solway Investment Fund since 2011) is a private international mining and metals group located in Switzerland. The Group conducts operations in North Macedonia, Ukraine, In ...
, a Swiss company
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Solvay (disambiguation) Solvay may refer to:
Companies and organizations
* Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Brussels, Belgium
* Solvay Conference, founded by Ernest Solvay, deals with open questions in physics and chemistry
* Solvay Indupa, an Argentin ...
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