Haverthwaite, Lancashire

Historical Description

Haverthwaite, a village in Colton parish, and an ecclesiastical parish in Colton add Cartmel parishes, Lancashire. The village stands on the river Leven, 2½ miles SW of Newby Bridge, with a station on the Furness railway, and a post, money order and telegraph office under Ulverston. An ecclesiastical district from the parish of Colton was formed in 1844; to this was added in 1858 an ecclesiastical district from the parish of Cartmel, forming a consolidated district, which on a vacancy in the vicarage of Colton in 1866 became an ecclesiastical parish, and comprises the small village of Backbarrow. Population, 951. Ironworks are in Backbar-row. The living is. a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value £282 with residence. Patron, alternately the Vicar of Colton and the Bishop of Carlisle. The church is a neat edifice with a tower, and stands in a pretty spot.

Administration

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

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 Haverthwaite from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Haverthwaite)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Haverthwaite are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

• Blackburn Standard
• Burnley Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Gazette
• Burnley Gazette
• Preston Chronicle
• Burnley Advertiser
• Burnley News