Bowfell
Bowfell is a pyramid-shaped mountain lying at the heart of the English Lake District, in the Southern Fells area. It is the eighth-highest mountain in the Lake District and one of the most popular of the Lake District fells for walkers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: GkgAlf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,963 feet
- Description: mountain in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Bow Fell”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Three Tarns and Esk Pike.
Esk Pike
Peak
Photo: mhx, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Esk Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, one of the cirque of hills forming the head of Eskdale.
Rossett Pike
Peak
Photo: Shanesykes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rossett Pike is a fell in the English Lake District. It is located at the head of Mickleden, one of two tributary valleys of Great Langdale.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cockley Beck and Seathwaite.
Cockley Beck
Hamlet
Photo: Dave Smethurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cockley Beck is a small hamlet, situated in the Duddon Valley in Cumbria, England. Historically, the hamlet was part of Lancashire. Located today within the Lake District National Park, it was established in the late 16th century, and is closely associated with the mining of copper ore in Cumbria.
Seathwaite
Hamlet
Seathwaite is a small hamlet in the Borrowdale civil parish of Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England. It is in the Lake District near Scafell Pike and 8 miles southwest of Keswick at the end of a minor road that heads southwest from the hamlet of Seatoller…
Wasdale Head
Hamlet
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wasdale Head is a scattered agricultural hamlet in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Wasdale Head claims to be home of the highest mountain, deepest lake, smallest church and biggest liar in England.
Bowfell
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Eskdale, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.44783° or 54° 26′ 52″ northLongitude
-3.16624° or 3° 9′ 59″ westElevation
2,963 feet (903 metres)Open location code
9C6RCRXM+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 5340666308OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bowfell” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bow Fell”
- Dutch: “Bow Fell”
- Dutch: “Bowfell”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بوفيل”
- German: “Bowfell”
- Ladin: “Bowfell”
- Swedish: “Bow Fell”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hart How and Slate Crag.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Three Tarns and Bowfell North Top.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bowfell”. Photo: Brooksaf, CC BY 2.5.