Allithwaite

Allithwaite
Lancashire
Allithwaite
Location
Grid reference:	SD386764
Location:	54°10’49"N, 2°56’23"W
Data
Post town:	Grange-over-Sands
Postcode:	LA11
Dialling code:	015395
Local Government
Council:	Westmorland & Furness
Parliamentary constituency:	Westmorland and Lonsdale

Allithwaite is a small village in Lancashire standing about a mile west of Grange-over-Sands, in the part of the county north of the sands. It has become a commuter village, of residents commuting to such local towns as Ulverston, Barrow-in-Furness or Lancaster or across to Kendal to work. At the 2011 census Alithwaite and Cartmel counted together had a parish a population of 1,831.

The parish church is St Mary's, built in 1864–65 and designed by the Lancaster architect Edward Graham Paley.

There is a small primary school, Allithwaite Primary C of E School located next to the church. Both church and school were built by a legacy left to the village. The village also has two pubs, a post office, a children's playground and a reasonably sized playing field with a tennis court and a bowling green.

Wraysholme Tower

Wraysholme Tower

A mile to the south, Wraysholme Tower is a 15th-century pele tower, used as a barn and cowshed, adjoining a 19th-century farmhouse. The tower was built by the Harrington family of Aldingham: a Michael Harrington acquired a grant of free warren in Allingham in 1315.

The tower is forty feet by twenty-eight feet. It has axes north and south and is built of local limestone rubble, with angle quoins. The walls are four feet thick at their base. There is a projecting garderobe, about seven feet square, at the south-west corner, where there is a spiral staircase. There was originally an entrance at the north-west corner. The building is roofed with slate.

Outside links

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• Allithwaite C of E Primary School