Solway may refer to:

Places

Australia

*Solway, a neighbourhood of

Ashburton, Victoria Ashburton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, southeast of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara Local government areas of Victoria, lo ...

. a suburb of Melbourne

New Zealand

* Solway, New Zealand, a suburb of Masterton

United Kingdom

Solway Firth The Solway Firth is an inlet on the west coast of Great Britain, forming part of the border between England and Scotland. The firth (a Scottish term for an inlet of the sea) divides Cumbria (including the Solway Plain) from Dumfries and Gallow ...

, the inlet between the north west of England and southern Scotland * Solway Coast, 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 ...

People with the surname

David Solway David Solway (born 8 December 1941) is a Canadian poet, essayist, educational theorist, travel writer, and literary critic. Biography Solway received a BA in English and Philosophy from McGill University in 1962, and a QMA in Philosophy in 1966. H ...

, 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- 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 buil ...

'', a tall ship *''

Solway Harvester ''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 taken t ...

'', a commercial trawler sunk off the Isle of Man in January 2000

Other

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