Bowston
Early-attested site in the Parish of Kendal
Historical Forms
- Bolteston 1189–1200 Kendi,317 1235,1242,1256 1272 Ipm 1279 Ass11d 1531 Kendi,269
- Baldeston 1375 Ipm 1401 Cl
- Botelston 1383 Pedw79d
- Bolston 1393 FF 1619 PR(K)
- Bowston(e) 1574 Rent212 1584,1587 PR(K) 1836 KCR
Etymology
'Bolt's farmstead', v. tūn . The pers.n. is the well-evidenced ON byname Boltr 'the bulky man', of which a weak form Bolti is found in Boltby (YN 198).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Bell Hill
- Bradleyfield
- Cunswick Hall
- High & Low Greenriggs
- Mountjoy
- Routhworth
- Tranthwaite Hall
- Tullythwaite Hall
- Brigsteer
- Hawes
- Helsington Barrows
- Larkrigg
- Sizergh
- Alauna
- Bothelford
- Cracalt Ho
- Watercrook
- Aikrigg, Aikrigg End
- The Bank, West Bank
- Barnhills
- Cairus Green
- Collinfield
- Dockray Hall
- Gallowbarrow
- Kirkfield
- The Lound
- Mint Bridge, Mint Ho, Mintsfeet
- Nethergraveship
- Newbiggin
- Oxenholme
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Sparrowmire
- Spital
- Stainbank Green
- Wattsfield
- Eskrigg End & Tarn
- Holmescales
- Hayclose
- Moserthwaite
- Arnstone
- Bannisdale
- Borrowdale
- Dowdyrigg
- The Forest
- Gilthwaiterigg
- Ladyford
- Potter Fell, Potter Tarn
- High & Low Reston
- Barley Bridge
- Gowan Bridge
- Goodhamscales
- Moser
- Selside Hall
- Yoad Pot
- Brundrigg
- Burneside
- Cowen Head
- Halhead Hall
- Helsfell
- Holme Lyon
- Hutton
- Rather Heath
- Strickland Randolph
- Ancrow Brow
- Goatscar
- Murthwaite
- Sadgill
- Snowcove Gill
- Stockdale
- Swinklebank
- Ubarrow Hill
- Wren Gill
- Mardale Ill Bell
- Ullthwaite Bridge & Mill
- Asthwaite Hall
- Brackenthwaite
- Fairbank
- Towtron
- Bulman Strands
- Knipe Tarn
- Sever
- Undermillbeck Common
- Winster
- Winster Thwaites
Other OS name
- Aynums Wood
- Bank Head
- Barrowfield
- Beckside
- Blake Bank
- Blakehowe Hill
- Bonfire Hall
- Bridge End
- Bridge Ho
- Broad Oak
- Broomgarth End
- Capple Rigg
- Chapel Bridge
- Chapel Ho
- Cold Harbour
- Copeland Wood
- High & Low Crag
- Cunswick Tarn
- Denehead Lane
- Dolholme Hill
- Ellers Bridge
- Fallen Yew
- Fell Gate
- Fisher's Tenement
- Gamblesmire Wood
- Garthrow
- Gilbank Spout
- Greenridge Mill
- Grigghall
- Grigghall Bridge
- Hag
- Help Pot
- Hollin Bank & Cragg
- Honeybee Wood
- Kirkby Ho
- Knott
- Layburn Dike
- Levens Fold
- Lightbeck
- Lindreth Brow
- Longhowe
- Low Mill
- Nook Fm
- Orphan Crag
- Park Ho
- Punchbowl Gill & Inn
- Redscar
- Scar Foot
- Scar Wood
- Scout Scar
- Tarn Bank Spring
- Thorns Villa
- Underbarrow Beck, Moss, Pool & Scar
- Underhill
- Ashbank Lane
- Back Spring
- Bankhead Lane & Pool
- Barton Scar
- Berry Holme
- Birdshaw
- Black Earth
- Bridge Ho
- Brigsteer Park
- Burnbarrow Scar
- Carterclose Wood
- Chamber's Tenement
- Chapel Wood
- Cockrow Wood
- Crag Mollet
- Crooked Gate
- Dobdale Road
- Gipsy Wood
- Grate
- Hawes Bridge
- High Ho
- High Wood
- Holeslack
- Horse Park Bridge
- Lane Head
- Low Ho
- Low Plain
- Nannypie Lane
- Nathan's Wood
- Nether Wells
- Park End
- Park Moss
- Plum Tree Ho
- Prizet
- Pyram Wood
- Rash Spring
- Robin Hood Island, Robin Hood's Wood
- St John's Church
- Simm Well
- Sizergh Castle
- Warriner's Wood
- Whetstone Lane
- Windy Howe
- Brough Fold
- Castlesteads
- Crowpark
- Elstead
- Helme Bank & Lodge
- Higher Ho
- Natland Beck, Hall, Mill, & Park
- Newlands
- Beck Mills
- Birds Park
- Birk Hag
- Birklands Wood
- Blindbeck Bridge(lost)
- Brantfield
- Brantholme
- Brookdale
- Broom Close
- Brow Head Fm
- Castle Green
- Castle Howe
- Change Bridge
- Coffin Wood
- Eller Lea
- Empson Hill
- Fowl Ing
- The Ghyll
- Ghyll Close
- Gilling Reane
- Goose Holme
- Grandy Nook
- Hallgarth
- Harwood Dale
- Hawesmead
- The Heights
- Helm Chace, Helmside
- Helsfell Hall
- Helsington Laithes
- Heron Hill
- High Park
- Hollin Garth
- Holmfield
- Jenkincrag
- Kendal Fell
- Kendal Forest(lost)
- Kendal Park
- Kentrigg
- Kettlewell
- Larch How
- Littleholme
- Little Wood
- Low Mills
- Low Slack
- The Meadows
- Murley Moss
- Noble's Rest
- Parkside
- Scroggs Lane
- Singleton Park
- Skewbarrow
- Spindle Wood
- Springland
- Stonecross
- Summerhowe
- Tenterfield
- Thorn Leigh
- The Tram
- Underfell
- Weir Bank
- Woodlands
- Banks Plant
- Barkhouse Beck
- Beckside
- Low Bendrigg
- Black Essett Plant
- Blaystone Bridge
- Blease Hall, Low & Over Blease
- Brunthwaite
- Chapel Ho
- Cocklea Wood
- Crooks Plant
- Crosslands
- Ellenwray
- Essett Hill
- Ewebank
- Fall Beck Bridge
- Fellside
- Flodding Hill
- Gillsmere Sike
- Gill Wood
- Greenmoor Bank
- Hag Wood
- Hide Wood
- Highgate Lane
- Hood Ridding & Tarn
- Hutton Bridge End
- Hutton Gate & Yeat
- Middleshaw
- Oak Wood
- High Ouvah Wood
- Popplemire Lane
- Springs Wood
- Town Ho
- High Ulpha Wood
- Witherick Wood
- Coalbank Wood
- Croft Foot
- Docker Beck, Bridge, Fell, Garths, Hall, & Parks
- Hay-, Garth
- High Park
- Hollins
- Kitchen Gill
- Mires
- Oldfield
- Park Beck
- The Slough
- Tenter End
- Wray Fm
- The Ashes
- Birks
- Blawith Moss
- Borrans
- Brundrigg Moss
- Butterbent
- Capplerigg
- Coneybeds
- Crag Fm
- Crake Hall
- Dam Wood
- Dickgate Rd
- Dubside
- Fairthorn
- Fisher Tarn
- Flats Hill
- Garths
- Gill Ho
- Green Bank
- Grey Crag
- Hallbank
- Hall Ho
- Hawkrigg
- Hayfellside
- Hill Top
- Hollins
- Hutton Park
- Kinn Road
- Latterhowe Bridge
- Low Ho
- Millholme
- Millrigg
- Moss Head
- Rawgreen, Rawhead Fm
- Sparrishaw Beck
- Strawberry Bank
- Strickley
- Summerhouse Hill
- Windy Harbour
- Windy Hill
- Woodside
- Bracken Hall
- Cross Houses
- Fellgate
- The Green
- Green Head
- Hardrigg
- Holme Park
- Kilnhead
- Lambrigg Fell, Foot, Head, Mill, & Park
- Moresdale Hall
- Thatchmoor Head
- The Toods
- Wythmoor
- Benson Hall & Knott
- Far Rigg
- Gatehouse
- Gouldmire
- Hay Fell
- Laverock Bridge
- Meal Bank
- Park Head
- Scandal Wood
- Baldock
- Bannisdale Beck, Fell, Head, & High & Low Bridge
- Beck Wood
- Blackcrag Plant
- High Borrow Bridge
- Borrowdale Head & Moss
- Capplefall
- Crookdale Bridge
- Dub Ings
- Forest Hall
- Hause Foot
- Hazel Bank
- High Ho
- Hollowgate
- Jock Scar
- Kids Howe
- Lamb Pasture
- Long Crag
- Martclose
- Muddy Brow
- Whinhowe
- White Moss
- Back of Patton
- Barkrigg Wood
- Biglands
- Black Moss Tarn
- Field End
- Hipshow
- New Ho
- Oldfield End
- Patton Bridge & Hall
- Shaw End
- Bowbank
- Broadthorn
- Burton Ho
- Chester Hag
- Coppackhowe
- Dodding Green
- Dry Lane
- Curling Steps
- Ellergreen
- Garnett Ho
- Gateside
- Halhead Brow, Green, & Nab
- High Crag
- Hollins
- Kent Bank
- Lane Foot & Head
- Madge Gill
- Moss Side
- Newby Lodge
- Oakhill
- Pepperhag Wood
- Plumgarths
- Round Close Wood
- Toad Pool
- The Todds
- Tolson Hall
- Ward's Head Wood
- White Foot
- Beckmickle Ing
- Birkett Wood
- High Ho
- Hill Fold
- Houseman Tenement
- Beech Hill Wood
- Calflay Wood
- Castle Crag
- Catstone Howe
- Cauldron Quarry
- Cowrake Wood
- Cowsty Knotts
- Crag Quarter
- Ewe Crags
- Froswick
- Green Quarter
- Hall Cove & Gill
- Hallow Bank, Hallowbank Quarter
- Hall Wood
- Hartrigg
- Hellwell Lane
- High Street
- Hodgson Brow
- Kentmere Dale, Hall, Park, Pike, & Tarn
- Kill Gill
- Lambfold
- Leads Howe
- Long Houses
- Low Bridge
- Lunsty Howe
- Nook
- Overend
- Park Beck & Brow
- Piked Howes
- Skeel Crags & Gill
- Stanfell Howe
- Steel Rigg
- Stile End
- Toadhowe Well
- Tongue Ho
- Ull Stone
- Wander Scar
- Wardless
- Waterfoot Bridge
- Wether Fold
- White Hole
- Whiteside End
- Withered Howe
- Wray Ho & Quarter
- Black Crag
- Browfoot
- Cragend
- Fellfoot Mill
- Grassgarth
- High Ho
- Hill
- Ings
- Kemp Tarn
- Borwick Fold
- Brownspring Coppice
- Carus Hill
- Crag
- Gowan Bank Fm
- Groverbank Wood
- Kerris Hill
- Moss Side
- New Hall
- Northspring
- Roundthwaite Coppice
- Sandy Hill
- Satterthwaite Lane
- Side Garth
- Stockbridge
- Yews
- Abbey Bridge
- Birk Field
- Birkhag Wood
- Birk Rigg
- Bridge Ho
- The Brow
- Brunt Knott
- Craggypark Plant
- Elf Howe
- Frost Hole
- Gillbank
- Hall Beck
- High Ho
- High Scroggs
- Hollin Howe
- Littlewood
- Long Bank
- Low Fold
- Millrig
- Old Hagg
- Park Ho
- Phillipson's Wood
- Piked Howe
- Scaley
- Scroggs Bridge & Wood
- Spring Hag
- Staveley Head Fell
- Staveley Park
- Birchmill
- Birksybrow
- Bow Mabble Breast & Wood
- Bridge Ho
- Bryan Houses
- Capple Barrow
- Cat Crag
- Charley Houses
- Cleabarrow Tarn
- Cock Hag
- Cockpit Hill
- Compston Ho
- Crag Hills
- Crag Ho
- Crag Lane
- Crook Brow, End, Hall, & Mill
- Ellerbeck Fm
- Fell Plain
- Garnett Ho
- Gilpinpark Plant
- Grandshire
- Great Wood
- Greenbank
- Green Hill
- Green Yew
- Gurnal Wood
- Hart Howe
- Hartley Gate
- Hawkearth Moss & Scar
- Head of Winster
- Nab End
- Priest
- West Nab
- White Howe
- Willy Gill
- Wolf Howe
- Beanthwaite End
- Beck Houses
- Blackett Bottom
- Bowland's Hill
- Broad Head
- Brow Head
- Bye Mill
- Castley Bank
- Coat o' West
- Great & Little Coum
- Dobshole
- Fellgarth
- Forest Foot
- Gillbank
- Golden Howe
- Grayrigg Common, Foot, Forest, Hall, Hall Beck, Head, Pike, & Tarn
- High Barn
- High Mill
- Honey Moor
- Hyning
- Lambert Ash
- Mires Head
- Roundhead Wood
- Sand Bed
- Shaw End
- Sunny Bank
- Tarn Rigg
- Agnesgill
- Ashstead
- Ashstead Fell
- Borrans
- Bracken Fold
- Braham Rigg
- Castle Fell
- Churn Head
- Cockin
- Combs, Combs Hollow
- Craketrees
- Crook
- Deepslack
- Eel Ark
- Eelman Sike
- Evatt Sike
- Flat Tarn
- Grisdale
- Guestford
- Hare-, Wood
- Haverigg
- Howestone
- Huck's Bridge
- Hyning
- Mabbin Crag
- Moorbank
- Old High
- Peggy Tarn
- Piper Bank
- Redsikes
- Rossill Bridge
- Shooter Howe
- Snowdon
- Stone Hall
- Tarnside Ho
- Thrushgill
- Thwaite Bank
- Topthorn
- Whelpside
- Whinfell Beacon, Common, & Tarn
- Edgebank
- Garnett Folds & Plain
- Garth Row
- Goody Nook
- Gurnal Bridge
- Harry Bank
- Helme Bank
- High Thorn
- Hollinroot
- Holme Ho
- Ling Fell
- Littlemire
- Lowgroves
- Musthill
- Oakbank
- Old Earth
- Otter Bank
- Redbank
- Redman's Tenement
- Redtree
- Scar Foot
- Skelsmergh Hall & Tarn
- Stocks Mill
- Strawberry Bank
- Tarnbank
- Thornybank
- Thornystack (sic)
- Above Park
- Bank Ho
- Biggersbank
- Borwens
- Bowthwaite
- Brackenrigg Side
- Browfoot
- Candy Slack
- Cooper Ho
- Crake Hall
- Dryhowe
- Gateside
- Katebarrow
- Kitcrag
- Leagate
- Longwell
- Low-, Bridge Ho
- Mozergh Ho
- Old Plough
- Poppy Fm
- Primrose Hill
- Steel Croft
- Watchgate
- Whiteside
- Whitwell Folds & Hall
- Bank End
- Bannel Head
- Barbara Crag
- Bonning Gate
- Bowston Bridge
- Brow Foot
- Crockett Head
- Winter Lane
- Barnsdale
- Baxton Holme
- Beetham Bank
- Birk Rigg
- Brabant Ho
- Burneside Hall
- Carlbank Lane, Carl Crag
- Chapeltree Wood
- Cocks Close
- Cockshot Wood
- Garnett Bridge
- The Ghyll, Ghyll Pool
- Gilpin Bank
- Godmond Hall
- Gurnal Dubs
- Hag Foot
- Hill Fm
- Hollin Crag
- Hundhowe
- Laithwaite
- Larchbank
- Mire Foot
- Oaks Wood
- Red Mires
- Robscott
- Routen Wood
- Saul Hill
- Shepherd Green
- Side Ho
- Sprint Bridge
- Sprint Mill
- Taggleshaw
- Ulgraves
- Underbrow
- Water Ho
- Adam Seat
- Black Crag
- Bowers Wood
- Bridge End
- Brock Crag
- Brow Gill
- Buckbarrow Well
- Cadottrell
- Capplebarrow
- Cocklaw Fell
- Dale End
- Docker Nook
- Dun Crag
- Flew Scar
- Galeforth Gill
- Great How
- Grey Crag
- Greycrag Tarn
- Grubbing Wood
- High Ho
- Hill Cottage
- Hollin Root
- Kilnstones
- The Knowe
- Low Ho
- Middale
- Nether Ho
- Ramslack Gill
- Raven Crag
- Rough Crags
- Selside Brow
- Settle Earth
- Shipman Knotts
- Sleddale Beck
- Spring Wood
- Steel Pike & Rigg
- Tarn Crag
- Tenter Howe
- Till's Hole
- Todd Crag & Fell
- Tom's Howe
- Underhill Wood
- Wads Howe, Wadshowe Bridge
- Well-, Foot
- Whirl Howe
- Band Knotts
- Bank Ho
- Bleathwaite Crag
- Brock Stone, Brockstones
- Brown Howe
- Brow Top
- Bryant's Gill
- Buck Crag
- Force Jumb
- Gavel Crag
- Gladgrove Gill
- Goat House Scar
- Greenhead
- The Grove
- The Head
- Holligrigg Lane
- Jumb Quarry
- Lingmell End & Gill
- Lowfield Lane
- Mould Rigg
- Nunnery Beck
- Over Cove
- Pouthowe
- Rainsborrow Cove & Crag
- Rasp Howe
- Raw
- Rookhowe
- Saletarn Knotts
- Sallows
- Scale Knotts
- Scales
- Scour Rigg
- Shaw Beck
- Smallthwaite Knott
- Star Crag
- Wray Crag
- Yoke
- Broadgate
- Brundriggs
- Croft Head
- Goose Howe
- Heights
- High Knott
- Hugill Fell & Hall
- Low Ho
- Meadowplatts Plant
- Mickle Moss
- Mill Dam, Millgate
- Pool Scar
- Ravenscar Plant
- Rawgill
- Red Crags
- Reston Hall & Mill
- Seedhowe
- Smeltmill Plant
- Sunnybank
- Whasdike
- Woodside Cottage
- Ashes
- Broadfold
- Caldrigg
- Common Head
- Glen
- Gowkstone Hag
- Hag End
- Knott Hill
- Brigham Orchard
- Skeggleswater Dike
- Spy Crag
- Whinney Close Wood
- White Moss
- Woodyhowe
- Back Lane
- Bank Wood
- Barrow Plant
- Bateman Fold
- Beckside
- Bellman Houses
- Birk Moss
- Bolton's Tarn
- Box Trees
- Field Tenement
- Gilpin Bridge
- Hollin Hall
- Howe
- Intake Wood
- Jenny Dam
- Latterbarrow
- Light Howe
- Low Lindeth
- Low End of Crook
- Low Fold
- Middle
- Milldam
- Mirkslack
- Mitchelland
- Moss Wood
- Nineveh
- Oakbank
- Pound Fm
- Sanderhill
- Scout Hill
- Shepherd Yeat
- Spigot Ho
- Stile Brow
- Sunnybrow
- Tarn Close
- Thornyfields
- Thwatterden Hall(lost)
- Waingap
- Walkerbrow Wood
- Yewtree
- Highfield Ho
- High Ho
- High Leys
- High Mill
- Hodstock Wood
- Hole Fm
- Parrock Cross
- Roper Ford
- Scott Howe
- Ash Spring