Staveley-in-Cartmel
| Staveley-in-Cartmel | |
| Lancashire | |
|---|---|
 Boathouses at Fell Foot Park, Staveley | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SD379861 |
| Location: | 54°16’2"N, 2°57’11"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 405 (2011) |
| Post town: | Ulverston |
| Postcode: | LA12 |
| Dialling code: | 015395 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Westmorland & Furness |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Westmorland and Lonsdale |
Staveley, otherwise known as Staveley-in-Cartmel is a small village in Lancashire, in the Furness Fells, just south of the foot of Windermere. It is to be found to the east of Newby Bridge.
The village sits at the head of the dale of the River Leven as it emerges from Windermere. The parishes borders Westmorland at its western side. The A590 road from Kendal to Barrow-in-Furness runs across the parish and at Newby Bridge the A592 road branches off and heads north towards Bowness-on-Windermere.
Name
The village's name since time immemorial has been simply 'Staveley'. However in 1875 the Church of England created ‘The District Chapelry of Saint Mary Staveley in Cartmel',[1] which distinguished this village, in the Cartmel district of Lancashire, from Staveley-in-Westmorland, which is nearby. By the earlier twentieth century the compound name Staveley-in-Cartmel begins to appear even in secular usage. Since the 1970s, it has become the accepted name, and is so inscribed on Ordnance Survey maps.
Another version, 'Staveley-in-Furness' has been seen also, again to distinguish it from the Westmorland village.[2]
History
In 1831, Samuel Lewis noted that the village contained 350 inhabitants, saying:
- "the living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and Diocese of Chester, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Lord G. Cavendish."[3]
John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) states the population at the time to have been 409 people living in 76 houses and covering 2,480 acres, and that the manor belonged to the Duke of Devonshire.[4]
Sights about the village
The parish church is the Church of St Mary, in the Windermere deanery of the Diocese of Carlisle. The church was built by 1618 and extended or restored in 1678, 1793, and 1896–97.[5] Since 1976 the church has formed part of the United Benefice of Leven Valley, along with those of Finsthwaite and Haverthwaite.
The area around the lake is known as Fell Foot Park, owned by the National Trust. Also of note are Fell Foot House and Town Head House, and several very old farms.[6]
Four miles away is Buck Crag, which was once the residence of Edmund Law, curate of Staveley-in-Cartmel and local teacher.[7] Two endowed schools respectively for boys and girls were recorded in the early 1870s.
To the east is Simpson Ground Reservoir.
There are 23 listed buildings and structures in the parish; the bridge over the River Leven at Newby Bridge, which was repaired in the 17th century, is Grade-II* listed,[8] and the others Grade II.
Alfred Wainwright identifies the upland to the north east of the village as Staveley Fell, although this name does not appear on Ordnance Survey maps. He describes a walk there in his The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.[9]
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References
- ↑ London Gazette, 5 December 1876, page 6740
- ↑ Wainwright, Alfred: The Outlying Fells of Lakeland (1974)
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel: 'A Topographical Dictionary of England' (S. Lewis and Co., 1848) ISBN 978-0-8063-1508-9
- ↑ Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72)
- ↑ The Parish of Staveley in Cartmel - Diocese of Carlisle: Windermere Deanery
- ↑ Taylor, Samuel (1955). Cartmel, people and priory. Printed by T. Wilson. p. 6. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8IxAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ↑ Stockdale, James: 'Annales Caermoelenses: or Annals of Cartmel' (1872), page 32
- ↑ National Heritage List 1225523: Newby Bridge
- ↑ Wainwright, Alfred: The Outlying Fells of Lakeland (1974)
