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Staveley, Lancashire

Historical Description

Staveley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Cartmel parish, Lancashire, at the foot of Windermere, 1½ mile from Lakeside station on the Furness railway, and 7 miles N of Cartmel. The township includes Newby Bridge, which has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ulverston, and the hamlets of Barber Green, Ayside, and Seatle. Acreage, 4199; population, 392. The manor belongs to the Duke of Devonshire. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1876½ population, 312. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church consists of nave, S aisle, and western tower. There were formerly two endowed schools for boys and girls respectively, but they were amalgamated by an order of the Charity Commissioners in 1894.

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 parishCartmel 
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 Staveley from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

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


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictSouth Lakeland
CountyCumbria
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtLA8
Post TownKendal

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