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Finsthwaite, Lancashire

Historical Description

Finsthwaite, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire, near the foot of Windermere, 1 mile from Lakeside railway station, and 8 NE of Ulverston. Post town,. Newby Bridge. The parish contains the hamlets of Fins-thwaite, Stott Park, and Lakeside. Population, 425. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value,. £173 with residence. There are an endowed church school and an institute.

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 parishCoulton 
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 Finsthwaite from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Finsthwaite 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 districtLA12
Post TownUlverston

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