Nibthwaite
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| Nibthwaite | |
| Lancashire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) High Nibthwaite | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SD295899 |
| Location: | 54°17’54"N, 3°5’14"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Ulverston |
| Postcode: | LA12 |
| Dialling code: | 01229 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Westmorland & Furness |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Westmorland and Lonsdale |
Nibthwaite is a village in Lancashire, in the part of the county north of the sands. It consists of two distinct parts:
- High Nibthwaite, usually just known as 'Nibthwwaite', which is a little village standing on the east side of Coniston Water. It is the foot of the lake close to where the River Crake drains from Coniston;
- Low Nibthwaite, which is no more than a cluster of cottages beside the Crake just over half a mile to the south.
There was a furnace and forge at Nibthwaite from 1751 to 1840, later (c1850) replaced by a bobbin mill.
The family of the author Arthur Ransome regularly holidayed at Nibthwaite when he was a child, and he incorporated local places and customs into the five of his Swallows and Amazons series of children's books which were set in the Lake District, around a lake based on both Coniston Water and Windermere.[1][2]
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