Bowland at its most general most often refers to:
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Forest of Bowland
The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells and formerly the Chase of Bowland, is an area of gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England, with a small part in North Yorkshire (however ro ...
, an area of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England, with a small part in Yorkshire
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Trough of Bowland
The Trough of Bowland is a valley and high pass in the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Lancashire, England.
The pass, reaching above sea level at the head of the valley, links to Wyresdale, dividing the upland core of Bowl ...
, a valley and high pass in the Forest of Bowland
Bowland may also refer to places and things most of which are named after or associated with the Forest and Trough of Bowland:
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Bowland Bridge
Bowland Bridge is a village 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 p ...
, a village in Cumbria, England.
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Bowland cheese Bowland at its most general most often refers to:
* Forest of Bowland, an area of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England, with a small part in Yorkshire
* Trough of Bowland, a valley and high ...
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Bowland College
Bowland College is the oldest and fourth largest constituent college of Lancaster University. The college was named after the Forest of Bowland, to the east of Lancaster. Members of the college are informally referred to as ''Bowlanders''.
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, part of Lancaster University.
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Bowland Forest High
Bowland Forest High is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England, covering some of the Forest of Bowland. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 163, falling to 144 at the 2011 Census. The parish ...
, a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England
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Bowland Forest Low
Bowland Forest Low is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England, covering some of the Forest of Bowland. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 168, falling to 160 at the 2011 Census. The parish i ...
, a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England
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Bowland High
Bowland High is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Grindleton in Lancashire, England. It educates pupils from ages 11–16, and as of 2022 has approximately 550 pupils.
History
The main building dates from 1865. I ...
, a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Grindleton, Lancashire, England
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Bowland High Group
The Bowland High Group is a lithostratigraphical term referring to the thick succession of limestone rock strata which occur in the Craven Basin of Lancashire and Yorkshire in northern England, United Kingdom from the Courceyan to the Chadian ...
, a thick succession of limestone rock strata in the Craven Basin of Lancashire and Yorkshire
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Bowland railway station
Bowland railway station (''Bowland Bridge'' between May 1849 and July 1862) was a railway station in the village of Bowland, near Galashiels, Scotland. Located on the now closed Waverley Route, it was opened to passengers on 4 August 1848, clos ...
, a former station near Bowland, Galashiels, Scotland
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Bowland Rural District
Bowland was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. It was named after the Forest of Bowland, which it included.
It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Clitheroe rural sanitary dist ...
, an administrative area in the West Riding of Yorkshire 1894-1974
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Bowland Shale Formation
The Bowland Shale or Bowland Shale Formation is a Carboniferous geological formation of Asbian ( Visean) to Yeadonian (Bashkirian) age. It is known from outcrop and subsurface borehole data in the north of England, the Isle of Man, parts of North W ...
, a Carboniferous geological formation
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Bowland-with-Leagram
Bowland-with-Leagram is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England, covering part of the Forest of Bowland. According to the census, the parish had a population of 181 in 1951, 128 in 2001 and 169 at the Census 2011.
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, a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England
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Lordship of Bowland
The Lordship of Bowland is a feudal barony associated with the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, England. The lordship fell into disuse between 1885 and 2008, during which time it was widely believed to have lapsed; it was revived in 2008.
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, an historic feudal barony
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Newton-in-Bowland
Newton or Newton-in-Bowland is a village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district, in the county of Lancashire, England, formerly known as ''Newton-on-Hodder''. The civil parish had a population of 237 in 2001, according to the United King ...
, a village in Lancashire, England, formerly known as Newton-on-Hodder
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