Staveley, Lancashire Family History Guide
Staveley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1718 from a chapelry in Cartmel Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Newby Bridge.
Alternative names: Cartmel Staveley St James
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: None
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1857
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STAVELEY, a township-chapelry in Cartmel parish, Lancashire: at the foot of Windermere, 7 miles N of Cark and Cartmel r. station.
It includes part of Newby-Bridge, which has a post-office under Newton-in-Cartmel. Acres, 2,480. Real property, £3,621. Pop., 409. Houses, 76. The manor belongs to the Duke of Devonshire.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £110. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church was enlarged in 1864.
There are two endowed schools for respectively boys and girls.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
STAVELEY, a chapelry, in the parish of Cartmel, union of Ulverston, hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 9 miles (N. E.) from Ulverston; containing 382 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £108; patron, the Earl of Burlington.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Ulverstone
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Furness
- Diocese: Chester
- Rural Deanery: Furness and Cartmel
- Poor Law Union: Ulverston
- Hundred: Lonsdale
- Province: York