Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Seathwaite

Seathwaite.-- eccl. dist., Kirkby Ireleth par., N. Lancashire, adjacent to the Cumberland border, pop. 165; P.O. Seathwaite Fell is 4 miles NW. of Coniston and 1 mile N. of Seathwaite Tarn. Seathwaite Vale descends to the Duddon, is 4 miles long, and is flanked on the right by Greyfriars Mountain and on the left by the Old Man of Coniston and Dow Crag.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kirkby Ireleth AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Seathwaite

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