Solway Moss, also known as Solway Flow, is a moss (lowland peat bog), in Cumbria, England near the Scottish border. 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 . It is located less than a mile south of Longtown at grid reference NY345690.
It was the location of the Battle of Solway Moss.
Coordinates: 55°00′40″N 3°01′33″W / 55.011225°N 3.025749°W / 55.011225; -3.025749
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“They are very proper forest houses, the stems of the trees collected together and piled up around a man to keep out wind and rain,—made of living green logs, hanging with moss and lichen, and with the curls and fringes of the yellow birch bark, and dripping with resin, fresh and moist, and redolent of swampy odors, with that sort of vigor and perennialness even about them that toadstools suggest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)