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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Cartmel | |
Hundred | Lonsdale north of the Sands | |
Poor Law union | Ulverston |
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:
- 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: