Nibthwaite

Nibthwaite
Nibthwaite
	High Nibthwaite
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
UK Parliament	Westmorland and Lonsdale;
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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

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

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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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