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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bowscale like this:
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.
Bowscale is now part of WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bowscale itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bowscale, in Westmorland and Furness and Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5442
Date accessed: 18th February 2026
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