BRATHAY, a chapelry in Hawkshead parish, Lancashire; on Brathay river and Windermere lake, 2 miles SW of Ambleside, and 7½ by road from Windermere r. station. Post Town, Ambleside, under Windermere. It was constituted in 1853. Pop., 212. Houses, 40. Brathay Hall is the seat of G. Redmayne, Esq. The scenery around Brathay-Bridge, taken in connexion with its perspectives, is surpassingly rich 'The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £142. Patron, G. Redmayne, Esq. The church is a recent erection, on a wooded knoll, in the neighbourhood of BrathayBridge.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))