The coast and dunes

There are plenty of different coastal environments to explore along the Solway Coast National Landscape – not least our many miles of dunes. Inland from the sand and mud flats along the southern stretch you will reach the unbroken belt of sand dunes. Two of the loveliest are Mawbray Banks, north of Allonby, and Wolsty […]

Special characteristics

The Solway Coast National Landscape is a special place. We are relatively small in comparison to some of the 46 designated NLs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but we are distinctive because of our habitats, heritage and landscape which are of international significance. We could write endless lists of the area’s special qualities – […]

Patterns on the landscape

‘Mosaic’ is a word often used to describe the Solway Coast National Landscape and it’s an apt description in both the physical and metaphorical sense. This is a place which has its origins in nature, but which has been shaped by both nature and man, and those patterns on the landscape spread across its entire […]

Salt Marsh

The salt marshes of the Solway Coast Area National Landscape are a dominant landscape of north Cumbria. They have been created through the deposition of sand, silt and mud through the ebb and flow of the tides of the Solway Firth. Tides vary in height and frequency and for periods of time. While tides are […]