A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BOWSCALE, a township in Greystoke parish, Cumberland; on the river Caldew, under Souter fell, 9 miles NE of Keswick. Acres, 2,560. Pop., 32. Houses, 7. Part of the surface is mountainous, and bears the name of Bowscale fell. An elevated lakelet here, called Bowscale tarn, is fabled to contain two immortal fish; and Wordsworth, in his "Feast of Brougham Castle," represents these as waiting on the "shepherd " Lord Clifford.
Both the undying fish that swim
In Bowscale tarn did wait on him;
The pair were servants of his eye
In their immortality.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Bowscale CP/Tn Greystoke AP/CP Cumberland AncC |
| Place: | Bowscale |
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