Bowscale

Human settlement in England

Mungrisdale

District

Eden

Cumbria

Region

North West

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54°40′30″N 2°59′46″W / 54.675°N 2.996°W / 54.675; -2.996

Bowscale is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mungrisdale, in the Eden district, in the county of Cumbria, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 27.^[1] The sable tarn in Sir Walter Scott's poem The Bridal of Triermain was reportedly based on Bowscale Tarn.^[2]

History

Bowscale was formerly a township in Greystoke parish,^[3] from 1866 Bowscale was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1934 and merged with Mungrisdale,^[4] which is made up of eight hamlets and had a population of 297 in the 2011 United Kingdom census.^[5]

References

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^ "Population statistics Bowscale Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
^ Nuttall, John; Nuttall, Anne (1 January 1996). The Tarns of Lakeland. Cicerone Press Limited. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-85284-210-9. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
^ "History of Bowscale, in Eden and Cumberland". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
^ "Relationships and changes Bowscale Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Mungrisdale Parish (E04002557)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 11 April 2021.