Claife is a
civil parish 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
Cumbria, England. It is situated west of
Windermere, and east of
Esthwaite Water and the village of
Hawkshead. In the
2001 census the parish had a population of 392, reducing to 298 at the 2011 census.
Settlements in the parish include two villages,
Near and Far Sawrey
Near Sawrey and Far Sawrey are two neighbouring villages in the Furness area of Cumbria, England. They are located in the Lake District between the village of Hawkshead and the lake of Windermere. The two lie on the B5285, which runs from Hawk ...
in the south; and the hamlets of High Wray, Low Wray, Colthouse and Loanthwaite in the north.
In the central area of the parish is
Claife Heights
Claife Heights is an upland area in the Lake District, near to Windermere in Cumbria, England. It has a topographic prominence of so is classified as a Marilyn (a hill with prominence of at least 150m).
It is the subject of a chapter of Wain ...
, a hilly area which rises to above sea level at Latterbarrow and contains several
tarns. There is one major road in the parish, the
B5285 connecting
Hawkshead to the
Windermere Ferry terminus at Far Sawrey.
At Low Wray is
Wray Castle
Wray Castle is a Victorian neo-gothic building at Claife in the English county of Cumbria.
The house and grounds have belonged to the National Trust since 1929, and house has opened to the public on a regular basis since 2013. The grounds, whi ...
, a 19th-century house and grounds now owned by the
National Trust. Many of the
woodlands in the parish, including the area alongside Windermere are part of the National Trust's
Hawkshead and Claife
Hawkshead and Claife is a National Trust property made up of much of the town of Hawkshead and surrounding Claife Woodlands in Cumbria, England. Overlooking Windermere itself is Claife Station, the ruins of a residence notable for the fact that ...
property.
See also
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Listed buildings in Claife
Claife is a civil parish in the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. It contains 45 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, four are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three gra ...
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Claife(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Civil parishes in Cumbria
South Lakeland District
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