Descriptive gazetteer entries

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
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
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

Travel writing

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.
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
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