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Bowness Pier, Bowness-on-Windermere
Bowness Pier
site name:-   Windermere lake
locality:-   Bowness-on-Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   jetty
locality type:-   pier
coordinates:-   SD40099678
1Km square:-   SD4096
10Km square:-   SD49


photograph
BPE43.jpg (taken 12.5.2008)  

evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
item:-  steamer
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
image MNU1P011, button  goto source
Page 11:-  "[Bowness] ... a good quay, with boats in abundance, and several boat-houses within view. A substantial little pier is built out into the lake; and on either side is a steamboat moored during winter; and to the end these two steamers come, six times a day each, during the summer. ..."

evidence:-   illustration:- LNWR 1910
source data:-   Print, colour lithograph? Bowness Pier, Windermere, from a painting by R T Roussel, published by the London and North Western Railway, LNWR, about 1910.
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Included in the guide book, The English Lakes, published by the London and North Western Railway about 1910. 

pier, 1910, Roussel, R Titem:-  JandMN : 49.3
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