Portinscale

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. The village covers approximately 100 acres (40 hectares). At the 2011 census the population was 560.

The name of the village means "the harlot's hut", deriving from the Old English "portcwene" (harlot) and Old Norse "skáli" (hut). The scholar Eilert Ekwall cites an undated early spelling of the name as "Portquenscale".