| Portinscale | |
|---|---|
 Portinscale | |
| OS grid reference | NY248237 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | KESWICK |
| Postcode district | CA12 |
| Dialling code | 017687 |
| Police | Cumbria |
| Fire | Cumbria |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
Portinscale is a village in Cumbria, England, close to the western shore of Derwentwater in the Lake District National Park 1+1⁄2 miles (2.5 kilometres) from Keswick.
Portinscale is in the civil parish of Above Derwent, the district of Allerdale, the county of Cumbria, the Copeland parliamentary constituency. Prior to Brexit in 2020 it was part of the North West England constituency of the European Parliament.[1] The village covers approximately 100 acres (40 hectares). At the 2011 census the population was 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]
- ^ "Election Maps". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ^ "Portinscale (Cumbria)" City Population. Retrieved 18 April 2014
- ^ Fellows-Jensen, pp. 124–125
- ^ Ekwall (1959), pp. 49–51
- ^ Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, New Series, 1866ff, quoted in Ekwall (1960), p. 371
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