North East England
County Durham
Lunedale

Bowbank

Bowbank is a hamlet in , a side valley of Teesdale in , England. It is within Lunedale civil parish and is situated on the B6276 road, 1 mile south of and 8 miles north west of the town of .
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: village in County Durham, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Bowbank, County Durham”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kirkcarrion and Laithkirk Church.

Archaeological site
Photo: Etype.jaguar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a copse of pine trees, surrounded by a stone wall, on a hilltop near , , . The trees, which were planted in Victorian times, cover a tumulus which is reputed to be the burial place of a Bronze Age chieftain, Prince Caryn, who ruled before the days of the Romans.

Church
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Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laithkirk and Middleton-in-Teesdale.

Hamlet
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is a small hamlet of three houses and a small church in , in . All of the houses in are accessed by an unnamed road which connects the B6277 and the B6276.

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is a village of 1,100 people in , ten miles northwest of Barnard Castle. It's in the scenic Tees valley, where the main visitor attraction is High Force waterfall.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in , in the of England. It is traditionally located in the North Riding of Yorkshire but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to for administrative and ceremonial purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.

Bowbank

Latitude
54.6092° or 54° 36′ 33″ north
Longitude
-2.08403° or 2° 5′ 3″ west
Elevation
968 feet (295 metres)
Open location code
9C6VJW58+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29537158
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
13275598
Wiki­data ID
Q4950710
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Satellite Map

Discover Bowbank from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Welsh—“Bowbank” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Bowbank”
  • French: “Bowbank”
  • Irish: “Bowbank”
  • Polish: “Bowbank”
  • Welsh: “Bowbank”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Bowbank Fell and Lonton.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Moor Rigg and Middleton Quarries.

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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 “Bowbank”. Photo: Roberto Strauss, CC BY 2.0.