Bowness-on-Windermere

Also known as Bowness on Windermere

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Key facts

UK place.country: England
UK place.official_name: Bowness-on-Windermere
UK place.type: Town
UK place.population: 3,814
UK place.unitary_england: Westmorland and Furness
UK place.lieutenancy_england: Cumbria
UK place.region: North West England
UK place.constituency_westminster: Westmorland and Lonsdale
UK place.post_town: WINDERMERE
UK place.postcode_district: LA23
UK place.postcode_area: LA
UK place.dial_code: 015394

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Bowness-on-Windermere is a town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Windermere and Bowness, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It lies next to Lake Windermere and the town of Windermere to the north east and within the Lake District National Park. The town was historically part of the county of Westmorland and it also forms an urban area with Windermere. The town had a population of 3,814 in the 2011 Census.