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 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: * Bowland Bridge, a village in Cumbria, England. * Bowland cheese *

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''. H ...

, part of Lancaster University. * Bowland Forest High, a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 * Bowland Shale Formation, a Carboniferous geological formation *

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. As ...

, a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England * Lordship of Bowland, an historic feudal barony * Newton-in-Bowland, a village in Lancashire, England, formerly known as Newton-on-Hodder

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