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Borrowdale is a valley and civil parish in the English Lake District in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. Until 1974 Borrowdale was in the historic county of Cumberland, and is sometimes referred to as Cumberland Borrowdale to distinguish it from another Borrowdale in the adjacent historic county of Westmorland. The valley rises in the central Lake District and runs north carrying the River Derwent into the lake of Derwentwater. The waters of the River have their origins over a wide area of the central massif of the Lake District north of Esk Hause and Stake Pass, and drain the northern end of Scafell including Great End, the eastern side of the Dale Head massif, the western part of the Central Fells and all the Glaramara ridge. Near Rosthwaite the side valley of Langstrath joins the main valley from Seathwaite before the combined waters negotiate the narrow gap known as the Jaws of Borrowdale. Here it is flanked by the rocky crags of Castle Crag and Grange Fell. The valley then opens out around Grange before the river empties into Derwentwater, overlooked by Catbells, Skiddaw and Walla Crag. The civil parish of Borrowdale covers a considerable area around the valley, including the southern half of Derwentwater. It includes the settlements of Grange, Rosthwaite, Seathwaite, Seatoller, Stonethwaite and Watendlath. It lies entirely within the Lake District National Park. At the time of the 2001 UK census the parish had a population of 438 living in 137 households, reducing in the 2011 UK census to a population of 417 in 128 households. For local government purposes the civil parish forms part of the Allerdale within the county of Cumbria. Before 1866 Borrowdale was a chapelry in the ancient or ecclesiastical parish of [[Place:Crosthwaite, Cumberland, England. In that year the various townships of Crosthwaite were each converted into a civil parish. Even during the 19th century the settlements of Borrowdale were small and, for the most part, those that exist today, listed above. From 1894 until 1974 Borrowdale was part of [[Place:Cockermouth Rural, Cumberland, England|Cockermouth Rural District. A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Borrowdale from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales:
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