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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cantsfield like this:
CANTSFIELD, a township in Tunstall parish, Lancashire; near the river Greta, 4½ miles SE of Kirkby Lonsdale. It has a post office under Burton-in-Kendal. Acres, 1,221. Real property, £1,786. Pop., 116. Houses, 20. Cantsfield Hall is the seat of the Tathams.
Cantsfield is now part of LANCASTER District. Click here for graphs and data of how LANCASTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cantsfield itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cantsfield, in Lancaster and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10036
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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