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Bowes
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Bowes is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. Located in the Pennine hills, it is situated close to Barnard Castle. It is built around the medieval Bowes Castle. In 2021 the parish had a population of 442.
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Place details
- Locality
- Bowes
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Bowes Castle.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Bowes Castle
- UK place.official_name
- Bowes
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.civil_parish
- Bowes
- UK place.unitary_england
- County Durham
- UK place.region
- North East England
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Durham
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Bishop Auckland
- UK place.post_town
- BARNARD CASTLE
- UK place.postcode_district
- DL12
- UK place.postcode_area
- DL
- UK place.dial_code
- 01833
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NY995135
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- County Durham
- Population
- 471
- Image
- Bowes Castle.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01833
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- Commons category
- Bowes
- OS grid reference
- NY995135
- historic county
- Yorkshire
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Bowes is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. Located in the Pennine hills, it is situated close to Barnard Castle. It is built around the medieval Bowes Castle. In 2021 the parish had a population of 442.
==Geography and administration== Bowes lies within the historic county boundaries of the North Riding of Yorkshire, but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was incorporated into the non-metropolitan county of Durham for administrative purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bowes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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