Bowness, a small town in Undermillbeck township, Windermere parish, Westmoreland, on a small bay of Windermere lake, opposite Belle Isle, 1 1/2 mile SSW of Windermere village and railway station. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Windermere. Acreage of urban sanitary district, 969; population, 2061. There are four good hotels, a handsome grammar school, built in 1836 ; a working men's institute, erected in 1875 ; and the parish church of Windermere, a long, low, ancient edifice with a square tower, which was restored at a cost of over ?7000 in 1870, when a new chancel was built and the tower raised to hold a peal of eight bells. The church contains a beautiful old window of stained glass, considered to be one of the finest in the kingdom. There are also places of worship for Wes-leyans, Congregationalists, and Christian Brethren. Bow-ness has been much improved and extended in recent years, and contains many new neat houses, and is a grand centre of tourists visiting the lakes. There is a good quay and a small pier; steamers ply from it daily; there is a ferry here across the lake, and some trade is carried on in the exporting of slate. Coaches run to Coniston and Ullswater. The town has gas, electric, and water supply.
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