Bowness-on-Windermere

Bowness-on-Windermere is covered by postcode district LA23. It is in the Westmorland and Furness council area, England.

Typical price £365,000 Homes sold in Bowness-on-Windermere, last 12 months. ▲ 9.7% on the year before Gigabit broadband 93 of 130 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 3 of 130 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 48 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Nearest school Goodly Dale Primary School 750 m from the middle, in a straight line

Every postcode in Bowness-on-Windermere, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Bowness-on-Windermere, by flood risk Of the 130 postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at low risk at worst and 127 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Bowness-on-Windermere. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A5074 LA23 2BF: not on the flood risk listLA23 2ET: not on the flood risk listLA23 2FG: not on the flood risk listLA23 2FJ: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HA: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HB: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HD: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HE: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HF: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HG: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HP: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HR: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HS: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HT: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HU: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HX: not on the flood risk listLA23 2HZ: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JD: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JE: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JF: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JG: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JH: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JJ: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JL: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JN: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JP: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JQ: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JR: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JS: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JT: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JU: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JW: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JY: not on the flood risk listLA23 2JZ: not on the flood risk listLA23 2NL: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AA: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AB: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AD: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AE: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AF: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AG: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AH: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AJ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AL: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AP: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AQ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AS: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AT: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AU: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AW: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AX: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AY: not on the flood risk listLA23 3AZ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BA: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BB: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BD: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BG: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BH: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BJ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BL: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BP: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BS: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BT: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BU: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BW: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BX: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BY: not on the flood risk listLA23 3BZ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DA: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DB: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DD: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DE: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DF: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DG: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DH: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DJ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DL: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DP: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DQ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DR: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DT: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DU: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DW: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DX: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DY: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EB: not on the flood risk listLA23 3ED: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EE: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EF: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EG: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EH: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EJ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EL: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EN: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EP: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EQ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3ER: not on the flood risk listLA23 3ES: not on the flood risk listLA23 3ET: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EU: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EW: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EX: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EY: not on the flood risk listLA23 3EZ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3FB: not on the flood risk listLA23 3FJ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3FS: not on the flood risk listLA23 3GN: not on the flood risk listLA23 3GQ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HA: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HB: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HD: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HG: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HH: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HJ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HL: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HP: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HQ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HR: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HS: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HT: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HU: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HX: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HY: not on the flood risk listLA23 3HZ: not on the flood risk listLA23 3JB: not on the flood risk listLA23 3NE: not on the flood risk listLA23 3DS: low flood risk at worstLA23 3HE: low flood risk at worstLA23 3DN: high flood risk Bowness-on-Windermere Map of every postcode in Bowness-on-Windermere, by flood risk Of the 130 postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at low risk at worst and 127 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Bowness-on-Windermere. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Bowness-on-Windermere
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 2
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 127

Of the 130 postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at low risk at worst and 127 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.3639, longitude -2.9169. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

LA23 3DN42 at high risk

What is it like to live in Bowness-on-Windermere?

Homes sold for a typical £365,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 9.7% on the 12 months before. At 93 of the 130 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 48 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 130 postcodes. The nearest school is Goodly Dale Primary School, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Windermere Health Centre, 800 metres from the middle. The nearest railway station is Windermere, 2.0 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Bowness-on-Windermere?

Homes in Bowness-on-Windermere sold for a typical £365,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 29 sales, up 9.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£365,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£332,750
12 months to August 2026
£365,000

▲ up 9.7% on the 12 months before

Detached£640,000 11 sales
Semi-detached 2 sales, too few to price
Terraced£365,000 7 sales
Flat or maisonette£220,000 9 sales

Across the whole LA23 district, Bowness-on-Windermere's main postcode district: a typical £352,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Bowness-on-Windermere: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Bowness-on-Windermere?

2 of the 130 postcodes now in use in Bowness-on-Windermere came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 28 homes sold in Bowness-on-Windermere were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LA23 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

LA23 3BAsince May 2022LA23 2FJsince February 2022

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Bowness-on-WindermereAcross the LA23 district
The 12 months to August 2026 1 of 29 (3%) 1 of 98 (1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 28 (0%) 0 of 126 (0%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Bowness-on-Windermere?

Ofcom reports on 130 of the 130 postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere. At 93 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit93 of 130
Postcodes where every home can get superfast126 of 130

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Bowness-on-Windermere at risk of flooding?

3 of the 130 postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 48 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 3 of 130 postcodes High: 42Medium: 6Low: 9

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Bowness-on-Windermere?

There is no primary school at the postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere; these are the nearest to its middle. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Bowness-on-Windermere?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere is Windermere Rail Station, 2.0 km away in a straight line.

  • Windermere Rail Station Railway station 2.0 kmCycle
  • Staveley Rail Station Railway station 6.5 kmDrive
  • Burneside (Cumbria) Rail Station Railway station 9.8 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Bowness-on-Windermere?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Bowness-on-Windermere safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 463 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 48 September 2025
  2. 36 October 2025
  3. 41 November 2025
  4. 21 December 2025
  5. 46 January 2026
  6. 43 February 2026
  7. 27 March 2026
  8. 26 April 2026
  9. 40 May 2026
  10. 49 June 2026
  11. 37 July 2026
  12. 49 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences245 reports
Criminal damage and arson56 reports
Public order45 reports
Other theft35 reports
Drugs26 reports
Anti-social behaviour22 reports
Shoplifting18 reports
Burglary7 reports

Also: vehicle crime 4, theft from the person 3, possession of weapons 2.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Bowness-on-Windermere?

Council
Westmorland and Furness
Parliamentary constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Police force area
Cumbria
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

All 130 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Bowness-on-Windermere postcodes

130 postcodes in use in Bowness-on-Windermere, by district:

LA23 postcode district,130 postcodes

That district is in the LA postcode area.

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Places near Bowness-on-Windermere

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Bowness-on-Windermere's £365,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Windermere1.7 km, £330,000Ambleside7.9 km, £402,500Kendal12.0 km, £250,500Milnthorpe17.9 km, £250,000Arnside19.2 km, £390,000Grange-over-Sands19.4 km, £295,000Ulverston22.3 km, £235,000Silverdale22.4 km, £371,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Bowness-on-Windermere

What is it like to live in Bowness-on-Windermere?
Homes sold for a typical £365,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 9.7% on the 12 months before. At 93 of the 130 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 48 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 130 postcodes. The nearest school is Goodly Dale Primary School, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Windermere Health Centre, 800 metres from the middle. The nearest railway station is Windermere, 2.0 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Bowness-on-Windermere?
Bowness-on-Windermere is covered by postcode district LA23, across 130 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Bowness-on-Windermere in?
Bowness-on-Windermere is in the Westmorland and Furness council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Bowness-on-Windermere?
Bowness-on-Windermere is in the Westmorland and Lonsdale parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Bowness-on-Windermere?
Homes in Bowness-on-Windermere sold for a typical £365,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 29 sales, up 9.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Bowness-on-Windermere?
In Bowness-on-Windermere, the nearest primary school to the middle of its postcodes is Goodly Dale Primary School, 750 metres away in a straight line; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Lakes School, 3.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Bowness-on-Windermere have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere is Windermere, 2.0 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Bowness-on-Windermere?
Ofcom reports on 130 of the 130 postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere. At 93 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Bowness-on-Windermere at risk of flooding?
3 of the 130 postcodes in Bowness-on-Windermere have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 48 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Bowness-on-Windermere?
2 of the 130 postcodes now in use in Bowness-on-Windermere came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 28 homes sold in Bowness-on-Windermere were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LA23 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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