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unusual facts about Bowness-on-Windermere



1890 Windermere School

The 1890 Windermere School (also known as the Armstrong-Parramore House) is a historic school in Windermere, Florida, United States.

British Columbia Highway 93

Highway 93 (Kootenay Highway, Banff-Windermere Parkway), is a north-south route through the southeastern part of the province, in the Regional District of East Kootenay.

Cal Palmer Memorial Building

The Cal Palmer Memorial Building (also known as Finders Keepers) is a historic site in Windermere, Florida.

Calgary Bowness

The district was named after the community of Bowness, and during its time encompassed the Northwestern part of the city.

Cardinia Transit

929 Pakenham – Pakenham North via Windermere Boulevard (Daily)

Coggabata

Coggabata, or Congavata / Concavata, (with the modern name of Drumburgh) was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, between Aballava (Burgh by Sands) to the east and Mais (Bowness on Solway) to the west.

Grange Fell Church, Grange-Over-Sands

Inside Windermere it is part of the parish of St. Paul Grange-over-Sands along with St Paul Parish Church in the town centre, both of which share the same vicar who is currently the Revd.

The church is part of the Diocese of Carlisle, Archdeaconry of Westmorland & Furness and the Deanery of Windermere.

John Akister

Akister was born in Brighton in England, and was educated at Staveley Public School and Windermere Grammar School in Westmorland, and Salford Technical College.

John Hextall

The area he had subdivided eventually became the village, then the town of Bowness, which grew rapidly after the second world war and was annexed by the City of Calgary in 1963.

John Hextall was a landowner who founded the community of Bowness, now part of Calgary, Canada.

John Lindow Calderwood

The name Lindow came to him from his mother, one of the Lindow family of Bowness and Ingwell, Whitehaven, who had mining and other interests in Egremont.

LaHost

He had his own band The Fire Thieves, and worked with Tim Bowness and the band Henry Fool.

Lakeland Radio

Signals come from the Kendal transmitter next to the A684 on 100.1 MHz and from the Windermere transmitter at the side of Windermere Lake on 100.8 MHz and from Keswick Forest on 101.4 MHz The RDS name is LAKELAND.

Marty Wood

Martin Roy (Marty) Wood is a celebrated rodeo cowboy from Bowness, Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada.

Mary Rundle

She then became secretary to the Managing Director of the large packaging firm Metal Box until retiring in the early 1960s to a cottage in Outgate on Windermere in the Lake District.

Montgomery, Calgary

Immediately across the river to the west is the community of Bowness, itself a town until being annexed by Calgary in 1964.

Rudge Cup

It is believed that these names are from an itinerary of the Wall from west to east, listing the forts as Mais (Bowness), Aballava (Burgh-by-Sands), Uxelodunum (Stanwix), Camboglanna (Castlesteads) and Banna (Birdoswald).

Sarcee Trail

The southern half of Sarcee Trail acts as a major connector between Glenmore Trail to the south and 16 Avenue North in the west end of the city, though the road continues north into the community of Bowness at 34 Avenue.

Schoolyard Ghosts

"Beautiful Songs You Should Know" was written by Bowness with Giancarlo Erra of the Italian band Nosound and the two recorded an alternative version of the song for the album called "Warm Winter" which they released under the moniker Memories of Machines.

St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere

The benefactors at this time included the local industrialist and politician Henry Schneider.

In the churchyard is a tomb with a headstone dated 1822 inscribed to the memory of a freed slave named Rasselas Belfield, who is described as "A Native of Abyssinia".

One of the older features of the window, at the top, is the coat of arms of George Washington, whose ancestor, John Wessington, owned land at nearby Warton.

Windermere House

The then-127-year-old Windermere House burned to the ground during the filming of The Long Kiss Goodnight in February 1996.

Windermere House, Lancaster

:For the house with the same name in Windermere, Ontario, Canada, see Windermere House

Windermere railway station

Both Stagecoach and the local council also run regular buses through the town to Bowness Pier; Stagecoach buses are open-top double-decker buses running along principal streets.

Windermere, New South Wales

William Charles Wentworth purchased the Windermere Estate from Thomas White Melville Winder in 1836.


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