Bowness-on-Solway is a village on the Solway coast,

and the western end of Hadrian’s Wall. The parish

church, dedicated to St Michael, dates back to

Norman times, and built using stone from the local

Roman fort, Maia. A transcript of all the gravestone

inscriptions can be downloaded HERE.

Photos of all the memorials at Bowness-on-Solway

are to be found on my

online album; The project to record all the grave-

stones was started by Sue Gallagher and the late

Marian Wood in the 1990s, and completed by Sue

Gallagher and Sue Yardley in 2014. Their transcript,

along with a churchyard plan can be found at the

Cumbria Libraries site, the plan gives details of

where each section is, though there are some ad-

ditional stones in our transcript not included in the

original version.

Photographs of all the stones were taken 2021 -

2022 by Bridget Casson and William Bundred, and

many of the gaps in the transcription were

checked and completed, using the same number-

ing as the original transcript. Thanks to Steve

Hinks for all his help.

E-MAIL me if you would like a higher resolution copy of any of the photos.