Bothel

Bothel
Cumberland
The Greyhound Inn, Bothel
Location
Grid reference:	NY184383
Location:	54°43’59"N, 3°15’58"W
Data
Post town:	Wigton
Postcode:	CA7
Dialling code:	01697
Local Government
Council:	Cumberland
Parliamentary constituency:	Workington

Bothel is a small village in north-western Cumberland, standing just off the main A595 road, eighteen miles from Carlisle and seven miles from Cockermouth. The village is just outside the boundary of the Lake District National Park.

The A591 road terminates just outside the village, linking Bothel to Bassenthwaite Lake and to Keswick. The village has a pub called the Greyhound Inn, a school, a telephone box and a post box.

The name of the village is presumed to be the Old English botl, meaning "settlement", a word common in the Anglian dialect of Old English.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Bothel)

• Bothel on Aboutbritain.com

References

• 'West Cumbrian Wind Farm Protesters Reject Flicker Report': Times & Star 24 March 2011