| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Bowscale |
| Civil Parish: | Mungrisdale |
| Coordinates: | 54.675°N -2.996°W |
| Static Image Name: | Bowscale - geograph.org.uk - 549471.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Bowscale |
| Shire District: | Eden |
| Shire County: | Cumbria |
| Region: | North West England |
| Constituency Westminster: | Penrith and The Border |
| 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 |
Bowscale is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mungrisdale, in the Eden district, in the county of Cumbria, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 27.[1] The sable tarn in Sir Walter Scott's poem The Bridal of Triermain was reportedly based on Bowscale Tarn.[2]
Bowscale was formerly a township in Greystoke parish,[3] from 1866 Bowscale was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1934 and merged with Mungrisdale,[4] which is made up of eight hamlets and had a population of 297 in the 2011 United Kingdom census.