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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Bowness. You may be able to find further references to Bowness in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Bowness | parish and railway station | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Bowness.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Anthorn | township | Bartholomew |
ANTHORN, or Ainthorn | a township | Imperial |
Drumburgh | hamlet with railway station | Bartholomew |
DRUMBURGH | a township | Imperial |
Fingland | hamlet | Bartholomew |
FINGLAND | a township | Imperial |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Bowness within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
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William Camden | Cumberland | 4 |
John Wesley | 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery | 2 |
George Head | Carlisle and the Solway Firth | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Whitrigg | 0 | 1 |
Newton Arlosh | 0 | 2 |
Port Carlisle | 3 | 2 |
Holme East Waver | 0 | 2 |
Kirkbride | 0 | 2 |
Annan | 7 | 6 |
Skinburness Marsh | 0 | 2 |
Drumburgh | 0 | 2 |
Dornock | 0 | 2 |
Easton | 0 | 2 |
Cummertrees | 0 | 2 |
Oulton | 0 | 2 |
Holme Abbey | 0 | 4 |
Browhouses | 0 | 2 |
Kirkbampton | 0 | 4 |
Holme Cultram | 0 | 2 |
Aikton | 0 | 2 |
Holme Low | 0 | 2 |
Brydekirk | 0 | 3 |
Dundraw | 0 | 2 |