Staveley, Lancashire

Description
Staveley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Cartmel parish, Lancashire, at the foot of Windermere, 1 1/2 mile from Lakeside station on the Furness railway, and 7 miles N of Cartmel. The township includes Newby Bridge, which has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ulverston, and the hamlets of Barber Green, Ayside, and Seatle. Acreage, 4199; population, 392. The manor belongs to the Duke of Devonshire. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1876 1/2 population, 312. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church consists of nave, S aisle, and western tower. There were formerly two endowed schools for boys and girls respectively, but they were amalgamated by an order of the Charity Commissioners in 1894.