Bowderdale

Bowderdale
Bowderdale Bridge
Bowderdale is located in the former Eden District
Bowderdale
Bowderdale
Location in Eden, Cumbria
Bowderdale is located in Cumbria
Bowderdale
Bowderdale
Location within Cumbria
OS grid referenceNY6704
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District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPENRITH
Postcode districtCA10
Dialling code01539
PoliceCumbria
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54°26′10″N 2°29′49″W / 54.436°N 02.497°W / 54.436; -02.497

Bowderdale is a hamlet in Cumbria, England, 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Kirkby Stephen. It is also the name of a dale in the Howgill Fells, the valley of Bowderdale Beck which rises on the western slopes of Yarlside and flows 5 miles (8 km) north to join the River Lune below the village of Bowderdale. For most of its length the beck forms the boundary between the parishes of Ravenstonedale and Orton.

The name, first recorded in 1224 as Butheresdal, is from the Old Norse búthar 'of the booths or shelters' and á 'river', so means "valley of the river of booths or shelters".[1]

  1. ^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Bowderdale", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521168557