Fawcett Forest is a former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

, now in the parish of

Selside and Fawcett Forest Selside and Fawcett Forest is a civil parish in the South Lakeland district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It was created on 1 April 2020, from the civil parishes of Fawcett Forest and Whitwell and Selside. It borders the parishes of Skelsme ...

, in the

South Lakeland South Lakeland is a local government district in Cumbria, England. The population of the non-metropolitan district was 102,301 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 103,658 at the 2011 Census. Its council is based in Kendal. It includes ...

district of the English county of

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...

. It included the valley of Bannisdale. The parish had a population of 23 in 2001. Owing to the minimal population from the 2011 Census details are included in the civil parish of Whitwell and Selside.

History

Fawcett Forest was a

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

in the parish of

Kendal Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, south-east of Windermere and north of Lancaster. Historically in Westmorland, it lies within the dale of th ...

until 1866 when it became a separate civil parish. On 1 April 2020 the parish was abolished and merged with

Whitwell and Selside Whitwell and Selside is a former civil parish, now part of the parish of Selside and Fawcett Forest, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It did not have a parish council but a parish meeting. Th ...

to form "Selside and Fawcett Forest".

References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Fawcett Forest
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) Former civil parishes in Cumbria South Lakeland District {{Cumbria-geo-stub

History

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