Bowderdale is a hamlet in

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...

, England, southwest of Kirkby Stephen. It is also the name of a dale in the

Howgill Fells The Howgill Fells are uplands in Northern England between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, lying roughly within a triangle formed by the towns of Sedbergh and Kirkby Stephen and the village of Tebay.

, the valley of Bowderdale Beck which rises on the western slopes of

Yarlside Yarlside is a hill in the Howgill Fells, Cumbria (historically Westmorland), England. This fell is not to be confused with the Yarlside area near Barrow-in-Furness, once served by the Yarlside Iron Mines tramway. That lies to the west. Nor sh ...

and flows north to join the

River Lune The River Lune (archaically sometimes Loyne) is a river in length in Cumbria and Lancashire, England. Etymology Several elucidations for the origin of the name ''Lune'' exist. Firstly, it may be that the name is Brittonic in genesis and deriv ...

below the village of Bowderdale. For most of its length the beck forms the boundary between the parishes of Ravenstonedale and

Orton Orton may refer to: Places England * Orton, Eden, Cumbria, a village and civil parish * Orton, Carlisle, Cumbria, a parish * Orton, Northamptonshire, a village and civil parish *Orton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire * Orton, Staffordshire, a hamlet ...

. The name, first recorded in 1224 as ''Butheresdal'', is from the

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ...

''búthar'' 'of the booths or shelters' and ''á'' 'river', so means "valley of the river of booths or shelters".

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Villages in Cumbria Regionally Important Geological / Geomorphological Sites (RIGS) in Cumbria Orton, Eden Ravenstonedale {{Cumbria-geo-stub