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Places


Australia

*Solway, a neighbourhood of
Ashburton, Victoria Ashburton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, southeast of Melbourne's Melbourne City Centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara Local government areas of Victoria, local government ...
. 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, Wairarapa Valley of New Zealand's North Island. It was a small part of Manaia run on which Master ...
, 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 in ...
, the inlet between the north west of England and southern Scotland *
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 * Solway Moss, lowland peat bog in Cumbria, England, near the Scottish border **
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 *
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

* Solway, Minnesota * Solway Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota *
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

* David Solway, Canadian poet *
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 th ...
, Canadian actor and broadcaster


Ships

* ST ''Solway'', a tug *''
Solway Lass ''Solway Lass'' is a two-Mast (sailing), 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 National Park, Whitsunday Islands. History ...
'', a tall ship *'' Solway Harvester'', a commercial trawler sunk off the Isle of Man in January 2000


Other

* Solway Star F.C., a defunct Scottish football club *
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 * * Solvay (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo, surname