Bowes is a Village in the county of County Durham.

Retail in Bowes

There are great places to visit near Bowes including some great waterfalls, towns, country parks and airports.

Summerhill Force is a great place to visit close to Bowes if you like waterfalls.

Stockton-on-Tees, and Middleton-in-Teesdale are great places to visit near Bowes if you like towns.

The area close to Bowes boasts some of the best country parks including Hardwick Country Park.

Bowes is near some unmissable airports like Teesside International Airport,

Bowes History

There are some historic monuments around Bowes:

• Cup and groove marked rock on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 920m south east of Pitcher House
• A Roman period native settlement, prehistoric carved rock and an iron smelting site on Knott Hill, 750m south of Stone Cross
• A carved rock between The Stang Forest boundary wall and Woodclose Gill, 750m south east of Far East Hope, Barningham Moor
• A cairn and a carved rock west of Cowclose Gill, in Scale Knoll Allotment, 460m west of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
• Deepdale Bridge
• A cairn, a carved rock, and a rubble bank, in the south west corner of Scale Knoll Allotment, 800m south east of Far East Hope, Barningham Moor
• How Tallon round barrow and cup marked stones
• A carved rock and boulder walling, near the south wall of Scale Knoll Allotment, 500m north east of Black Hill Gate
• Roman Fort (Lavatrae)
• Romano-British settlement site to the east and south-east of East Mellwaters farmhouse
• A rock with a cup and a groove, in the south west corner of Scale Knoll Allotment, 790m south east of Far East Hope, Barningham Moor
• The Blakethwaite Dams
• Four carved rocks on Blake Hill, 520m NNW of Hill Gill Farm, Baldersdale
• Cairn on a low ridge on the east side of Ravock, Bowes Moor, 860m west south west of West Stoney Keld
• Cup and ring marked rock on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 860m south east of Pitcher House
• Prehistoric settlement and associated remains including carved rocks and a stone circle 400m north west of How Tallon Cairn, Barningham Moor
• Cup and ring marked rock on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 870m south south east of Pitcher House
• Cup, ring and groove marked rock 310m west of East Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
• Cup and groove marked rock 590m north of Brier Dykes, Baldersdale
• Prehistoric enclosure on the west side of Scale Knoll Gill, 400m WSW of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
• A cairn and a carved rock on a prominent knoll, south of the road from Barningham to East Hope, 690m WSW of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
• Carved rock with one cup and four grooves 260m south west of The Rigg
• Carved rock in West Pasture 385m south west of The Rigg
• Cup and ring marked rock 80m south of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
• A carved rock with one cup, at the east side of Woodclose Gill, in Scale Knoll Allotment, 500m north east of Black Hill Gate, Barningham Moor
• A cairn, east of Scale Knoll Allotment, 260m south west of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
• Cairn on a prominent knoll and cairnfield to its south east on Ravock, Bowes Moor
• Cairnfield on Ravock, 880m north west of Rovegill House
• Cairnfield partly enclosed by a bank, on the east side of Woodclose Gill, Scale Knoll Allotment, Barningham Moor, 550m south of Hurst Hill
• A rock with cups and rings in Scale Knoll Allotment, 790m WSW of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
• Cairnfield on the north east slope of Ravock, Bowes Moor
• Cairn near the summit of a low ridge, 850m south west of Cocker Stake Nook, Hope Moor
• Late prehistoric ditched, scarp-edge settlement 400m south-south-west of East Mellwaters farmhouse
• Cup marked rock outcrop at the base of a wall 120m east of East Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
• Three prehistoric carved rocks on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 860m SSE Pitcher House
• A cup and groove marked rock, east of Woodclose Gill, 645m north east of Black Hill Gate, Barningham Moor
• Roman aqueduct, prehistoric field systems, cairnfield, enclosure and round cairn on Ravock
• Cup, ring and groove marked rock 170m south west of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
• Cup and ring marked rock 130m south west of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
• Roman signal station 190m north west of Vale House Farm
• Scargill fortified house, medieval settlement and associated field system
• A cup marked rock with 13 cups and a groove, on a knoll in Scale Knoll Allotment, 700m north east of Black Hill Gate, Barningham Moor
• Cup ring and groove marked rock outcrop at Toby Wall, 260m north east of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
• Prehistoric enclosure 530m and a rubble bank 500m east of Haythwaite in Scale Knoll Allotment, Barningham Moor
• Cup and groove marked rock 450m WNW of Howgill Grange, Baldersdale
• Carved rocks, cairnfield and rubble banks on the terrace south of Scale Knoll Allotment, immediately east of Black Hill Gate, Barningham Moor
• Cairnfield on Ravock, 600m south east of Ravock Castle, Bowes Moor
• Ring cairn on Goldsborough, Cotherstone Moor, 840m south of Pitcher House
• Late prehistoric walled settlement 200m south-south-east of East Mellwaters farmhouse
• A prehistoric carved rock with four cups 620m north of Brier Dykes, Baldersdale
• Cup and groove marked rock on the south bank of Scaletree Gill, 560m north west of Park House Farm, Baldersdale
• Ring cairn and adjacent round cairn on Low Moor, 460m NNW of High Eskeleth
• Cup marked rock 100m north of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
• Cairn on the summit of Arndale Hill, Hope Moor
• Rock with many cup marks on the east bank of How Beck, 450m north west of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
• Four areas of carving on a rock outcrop 200m south west of The Rigg
• Roman shrine on Scargill Moor
• Prehistoric defended settlement 500m north west of West Holme House
• Carved rock, cist and cairnfield 580m west of Hindon Edge
• Bowes Castle
• A cairn on a knoll east of Woodclose Gill, in Scale Knoll Allotment, 785m north east of Black Hill Gate
• Three cairns on Ravock, Bowes Moor, 830m north east of Ravock Castle
• Two carved rocks east of West Pasture, 335m south west of The Rigg
• Two adjacent ring cairns on Low Moor, 310m north west of High Eskeleth
• Carved rock north of Washbeck Green, 570m south of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
• Cup marked rocks and cairnfield at Bracken Heads, 380m north east of Folly Head
• Barnard Castle Bridge
• A cairn and a rubble bank in Scale Knoll Allotment, 510m WSW of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
• Rock with one cup on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 860m north west of West Loups's
• Carved rocks in Stobgreen Plantation
• Cairn south of Cross Gill, 645m south east of Black Hill Gate, Barningham Moor
• Cairn at West Moor Bottom, Mudbeck
• A cairn on the summit of a knoll, in the southwest corner of Scale Knoll Allotment,800m south east of Far East Hope, Barningham Moor
• Barnard Castle: ringwork, shell keep castle, chapel and dovecote
• Medieval farmstead and two prehistoric carved rocks at West Loup's
• The Christening Stone, 160m east of Doe Park
• Carved rock and prehistoric enclosure on west side of Scale Knoll Gill, 410m south west of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
• A carved rock with at least 12 cups, 560m north of Brier Dykes, Baldersdale
• Medieval chapel 350m south east of Castle Farm
• Cairn on the north side of Ravock, Bowes Moor, 600m west of West Stoney Keld
• A palisaded hilltop enclosure, a carved rock and a small enclosure, 480m north west of Brier Dykes, Baldersdale
• Carved bedrock with cups and grooves 170m south east of The Rigg
• Ring cairn at the northern end of Scale Knoll Allotment, 750m WNW of Haythwaite
• Arkle Beck stone circle
• Area of carved bedrock 120m south of The Rigg
• A rock with three grooves and five cups with rings, in Scale Knoll Allotment, 800m WSW of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
• Cup and ring marked rock on Cotherstone Moor 520m north west of East Loups's
• Cup, ring and groove marked rock on Kearton Rigg, 430m south of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
• Cup marked rock on the summit of the hill, 420m west of Howgill Grange
• Cotherstone Castle