Nibthwaite

Nibthwaite

High Nibthwaite
Nibthwaite
 Nibthwaite shown within Cumbria
OS grid referenceSD295899
Civil parishColton
DistrictSouth Lakeland
Shire countyCumbria
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town ULVERSTON
Postcode district LA12
Dialling code 01229
Police Cumbria
Fire Cumbria
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK ParliamentWestmorland and Lonsdale
List of places
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England
Cumbria

Coordinates: 54°18′00″N 3°04′59″W / 54.300°N 3.083°W / 54.300; -3.083

Nibthwaite is a village in the South Lakeland District in the county of Cumbria. It is in the civil parish of Colton, Cumbria, and on the east side of Coniston Water.

There was a furnace and forge at Nibthwaite from 1751 to 1840, later (c1850) replaced by a bobbin mill, see Harrison Ainslie

The family of the author Arthur Ransome regularly holidayed at Nibthwaite when he was a child, and he incorporated local places and customs into the five of his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books which were set in the Lake District, around a lake based on both Coniston Water and Windermere.[1][2]

References

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  1. The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, pp1-4 (Jonathan Cape, 1976)
  2. The Life of Arthur Ransome, by Hugh Brogan, pp1-4 (Jonathan Cape, 1984)
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