Solway Moss

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Solway Moss
Location	Cumbria, England
Coordinates	55°00′40″N 3°01′33″W / 55.011225°N 3.025749°W / 55.011225; -3.025749Coordinates: 55°00′40″N 3°01′33″W / 55.011225°N 3.025749°W / 55.011225; -3.025749

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 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Longtown at grid reference

NY345690. As of 2005, the moss is the subject of a campaign by organisations including the RSPB and Friends of the Earth to get the area declared a Special Area of Conservation in order to prevent the destruction of the rare raised bog ecology [1].

In 1542 it was the location of the Battle of Solway Moss.

On 16 November 1771, during the night, Solway Moss burst, flooding local farms and settlements.^[1] one of several rivers to do so in the Great Flood of 1771.

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