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Claife, Lancashire

Historical Description

Claife, a township in Hawkshead parish, Lancashire, on the E side of Esthwaite Water, 2 miles SE of Hawkshead. Post towns, Windermere and Hawkshead; money order and telegraph office, Sawrey. Acreage, 4579; population, 631. Lower Claife was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1873, under the name of Sawrey, the church (St Peter's) being in the village of Sawrey Extra. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £190 yearly, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop. The church is a cruciform building in the Gothic style erected in 1872.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishHawkeshead 
HundredLonsdale north of the Sands 
Poor Law unionUlverston 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Claife from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Newspapers and Periodicals

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