Bothel is a small village in
Cumbria
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, England. Bothel was historically within
Cumberland
Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish ...
.
Location
It is situated just off the main
A595 road
The A595 is a primary route in Cumbria, in Northern England that starts in Carlisle, passes through Whitehaven and goes close to Workington, Cockermouth and Wigton. It passes Sellafield and Ravenglass before ending at the Dalton-in-Furness by-p ...
, 18 miles (29 km) from
Carlisle
Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England.
Carlisle's early history is marked by the establishment of a settlement called Luguvalium to serve forts along Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. Due to its pro ...
, from
Keswick and 7 miles (11 km) from
Cockermouth
Cockermouth is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. The name refers to the town's position by the confluence of the River Cocker into the River Derwent. At the 2021 census, the built u ...
.
The village is just outside the boundary of the
Lake District
The Lake District, also known as ''the Lakes'' or ''Lakeland'', is a mountainous region and National parks of the United Kingdom, national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and mou ...
National Park
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. The
A591 road
The A591 is a major road in Cumbria, which lies almost entirely within the Lake District national park. A 2009 poll by satellite navigation firm Garmin named the stretch of the road between Windermere and Keswick as the most popular road in B ...
terminates just outside the village, linking Bothel to
Bassenthwaite Lake
Bassenthwaite Lake is a body of water in the Lake District in North West England, near the town of Keswick. It has an area of , making the fourth largest of the lakes in the region. The lake has a length of approximately long and maximum wid ...
and
Keswick.
Governance
The village is in the
parliamentary constituency
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of
Penrith and Solway, and has been represented by
Markus Campbell-Savours
Markus Dale Campbell-Savours (born January 1981) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Penrith and Solway since 2024.
He is the son of Lord Campbell-Savours. Campbell-Savours is an alumnus of Birkbeck, ...
of the
Labour Party since the
2024 general election
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.
For
Local Government
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Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ...
purposes it is in the
Cumberland
Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish ...
unitary authority area
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.
The village also has its own
Parish Council jointly with nearby
Threapland; ''Bothel & Threapland Parish Council''.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Bothel and Threapland
Bothel and Threapland is a civil parish in the Cumberland district in Cumbria, England. It contains nine listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England
The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's ...
*
Bothel and Threapland
Bothel and Threapland is a civil parish in Cumbria, England, just outside the Lake District National Park. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 438. The parish includes the villages of Bothel, Cumbria, Bothel and Threapland, Cumb ...
References
External links
Bothel informationfro
Aboutbritain.com Cumbria County History Trust: Bothel and Threapland(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Villages in Cumbria
Cumberland (unitary authority)
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