Portinscale, Cumbria - Derwentwater Hotel grounds - RP postcard by Moss c.1950s

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• Picture / Image:  The Grounds, Derwentwater Hotel [Portinscale, Cumbria]
• Publisher: W. H. Moss & Sons, Whitehaven - real photo
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^{Portinscale is a village in Cumbria, England. It is situated close to the western shore of Derwentwater and within the Lake District National Park. It is some 1.5 miles (2.4 km) by road from Keswick. For administrative purposes, Portinscale lies within the civil parish of Above Derwent, the district of Allerdale, and the county of Cumbria. It is within the Copeland constituency of the United Kingdom Parliament, and the North West England constituency of the European Parliament.[1] The village covers approximately 0.15 square miles (0.39 km2). At the 2011 census the population totalled 560.[2]}

^{The name of the village means "the harlot's hut", deriving from the Old English "portcwene" (harlot) and Old Norse "skáli" (hut).[3][n 1] The scholar Eilert Ekwall cites an undated early spelling of the name as "Portquenscale".[5]}

^{The village hall was opened on 10 October 1925.[16] The village has one pub, the Farmer's Arms;[17] a restaurant, the Chalet;[18] a café, the Dandelion;[19] the Derwent Water Marina;[20] numerous bed-and-breakfast establishments;[21] and a substantial and long-established hotel, the Derwentwater, originally called the Black Dog, and then from about 1815 the Marshal Blücher.[22] In 1847 the authors of a guide to Cumberland wrote, "The Blücher hotel occupies a delightful situation in the village … attached to it are neat public gardens, or pleasure grounds, and there is an interesting aviary, in which, amongst several other valuable birds are two golden eagles, – perhaps the only birds of the kind in the north of England."[23]}

^{Next to the hotel is Derwent Hill Outdoor Education and Training Centre. This has been owned by Sunderland City Council since 1962. It is a residential centre offering courses for children and young people, leadership and management training, conference facilities and group accommodation.[24]}

^{On the edge of Portinscale is Derwent Bank, a large house built as "Finkle Street House" in 1785; since 1937 it has been a centre for walking holidays.[25] Just outside the village are two large country houses designed by Alfred Waterhouse, Fawe Park, built in 1858, and Lingholm, built in the 1870s.[26][27] The former is close to the Nichol End stop of the Keswick Launch Company's Derwentwater ferry service.[26][28]}