Bowbank

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| static_image = Bowbank including Lowside Farm and Highside Farm.jpg

| static_image_caption = Lowside, West Wood and Highside farms

| coordinates = {{coord|54.60|-02.09|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Bowbank

| population =

| civil_parish = Lunedale

| unitary_england = County Durham

| region = North East England

| lieutenancy_england = County Durham

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| os_grid_reference = NY9423

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Bowbank is a hamlet in Lunedale, a side valley of Teesdale in County Durham, England.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 91 Appleby-in-Westmorland (Brough & Kirkby Stephen)|ISBN= 9780319231302 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html|title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer|format=csv (download)|date= 1 January 2016|publisher=Ordnance Survey|website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk|accessdate=30 January 2016}} It is within Lunedale civil parish and is situated on the B6276 road, {{Convert|1|mile|km}} south of Middleton-in-Teesdale and {{Convert|8|mile|km}} north west of the town of Barnard Castle.{{Cite web |title=Election Maps: Lunedale CP |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/?x=394532&y=523673&z=6&bnd1=CPC&bnd2=CTY+GLA&labels=on |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Google Maps distance calculator |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bowbank,+Barnard+Castle+DL12+0NT/@54.6092573,-2.0958759,11170m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x487c379e0c56c7cd:0x160a23b8fa818fca!8m2!3d54.61113!4d-2.086655!16zL20vMDR5NzV0?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D |access-date=2 January 2025 |website=Google Maps}}

For centuries, it lay within the historic county boundaries of the North Riding of Yorkshire, but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.

The 19th-century Bowbank House and its attached wing is a Grade II listed building,{{Historic England|num=1160675|desc=Bowbank House and attached wing|access-date=2 January 2025}} as is West Wood Farmhouse and its separately listed byre-house and barn.{{Historic England|num=1160653|desc=West Wood Farmhouse|access-date=2 January 2025}}{{Historic England|num=1323047|desc=Byre House and barn|access-date=2 January 2025}}