Applethwaite is a village in the foothills of
Skiddaw near
Keswick in the English
Lake District. It is in the
Borough of Allerdale and the
county
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of
Cumbria
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, and forms part of the
civil parish
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of
Underskiddaw
Underskiddaw is a civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in the English county of Cumbria. The parish lies immediately to the north of the town of Keswick, and includes the southern and eastern flanks of Skiddaw as well as part of the vall ...
, which has a population of 282.
The name derives from it originally being the clearing in a forest with apples in it.
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Applethwaite is mentioned in Alfred Wainwright
Alfred Wainwright MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991), who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright or A.W., was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume '' Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells'', publis ...
's '' The Northern Fells'' guide book. The narrator/nursemaid Hester in "The Old Nurse’s Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell is from this village.
The church
St Marys church in the village is plain with some stained glass windows. The other church here is St John the Evangelist.
Location
Applethwaite is just off the A591
The A591 is a major road in Cumbria, in the north-west of England, which lies almost entirely within the Lake District national park. A 2009 poll by satellite navigation firm Garmin named the stretch of the road between Windermere and Keswick ...
, north of Keswick.
See also
*Listed buildings in Underskiddaw
Underskiddaw is a civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. It contains 21 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England
The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official d ...
References
Villages in Cumbria
Allerdale
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