Bowscale

{{Short description|Hamlet in Cumbria, England}}

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

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

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| official_name = Bowscale

| civil_parish = Mungrisdale

| coordinates = {{coord|54.675|-2.996|display=inline,title}}

| static_image_name = Bowscale - geograph.org.uk - 549471.jpg

| static_image_caption = Bowscale

| population =

|unitary_england= Westmorland and Furness

|lieutenancy_england= Cumbria

| region = North West England

| constituency_westminster = Westmorland and Lonsdale

| post_town = PENRITH

| postcode_district = CA11

| postcode_area = CA

| dial_code = 017687

| os_grid_reference = NY357315

| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Eden

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Eden, Cumbria

| label_position =

}}

Bowscale is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mungrisdale, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 27.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10194982/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Bowscale Tn/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=30 December 2021}} The sable tarn in Sir Walter Scott's poem The Bridal of Triermain was reportedly based on Bowscale Tarn.{{cite book|last1=Nuttall|first1=John|last2=Nuttall|first2=Anne|title=The Tarns of Lakeland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LK7ODv3MZUC&pg=PA21|accessdate=19 July 2012|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Cicerone Press Limited|isbn=978-1-85284-210-9|page=21}}