Nibthwaite

Nibthwaite
High Nibthwaite
Nibthwaite  Nibthwaite shown within Cumbria
OS grid reference	SD295899
Civil parish	Colton
District	South Lakeland
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ULVERSTON
Postcode district	LA12
Dialling code	01229
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Westmorland and Lonsdale
List of places UK England Cumbria

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

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

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)