Bow Fell, Cumberland
Historical Description
Bow Fell, one of the finest mountains in the Lake district, on the mutual border of Cumberland and Westmoreland, at the head of Borrowdale, Eskdale, and Langdale, 8 miles WNW of Ambleside. It has an altitude of 2960 feet above the level of the sea, and figures grandly in the background views from Windermere and Esthwaite Water.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bow Fell are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)