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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Seathwaite like this:
SEATHWAITE, a chapelry and a mountain vale in Kirkby-Ireleth parish, Lancashire. The chapelry lies adjacent to Cumberland, 4¼ miles W by S of Coniston r.station. Post-town, Grisebeck, under Ulverstone. Acres, 10, 940. Pop., 171. Houses, 34. The manor belongs to J. J. Rawlinson, Esq. The living is a p. ...
curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £80.* Patron, J. J. Rawlinson, Esq. The church is good; and there is a parochial school. The vale is mainly identical with the chapelry; descends 4 miles south-westward, at an acuteangle to the Duddon river; is flanked, on the right, by Greyfriars mountain, on the left, by the Old Man of Coniston and Dow Crag; and contains, in its centralpart, the lakelet of S. Tarn, gemmed with an islet, over-hung by precipices, and commanding a vista-view away to Fairfield mountain.
Seathwaite is now part of WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Seathwaite itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Seathwaite, in Westmorland and Furness and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21621
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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