Seathwaite, Duddon Valley

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude = 54.3541
longitude = -3.1882
official_name= Seathwaite
population = 1045cite web
url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/NeighbourhoodProfile.do;jsessionid=ac1f930bce69abbd356deaa43aeb751ca9753638f65.e38PbNqOa3qRe3mMaxiTb3f0n6jAmljGr5XDqQLvpAe?a=5&c=LA20+6ED&g=432785&i=1001x1012&j=303712&m=1&p=1&q=1&r=0&s=1211331660125&enc=1&tab=2&inWales=false&bhsv=1&bhsw=1280&bhqs=1
title=Lead Neighbourhood Summary
accessdate=2008-05-30]
shire_district=
shire_county = Cumbria
region= North West England
constituency_westminster= Westmorland and Lonsdale
post_town= LA20 6ED
postcode_district = LA20
postcode_area= LA
dial_code= 01229cite web
url=http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/phreak/std_geog.htm
title=UK Geographic Telephone STD codes with their mnemonics
author=Roger W. Haworth
accessdate=2008-05-30]
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Seathwaite is a village in the Duddon Valley in the Lake District of Cumbria,
North West England. The nearby Seathwaite Tarn (west of the Coniston Fells) takes itsname from the village. The village is northeast of Hall Dunnerdale and southwest of the Tarn.It lies along the old Walna Scar road, that can be reached from the A595 in the south or from the steep Hardknott–Wrynose pass road in the north (which in turn is off the
A593 from Skelwith Bridge).cite web
url=http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Town_or_Village/Seathwaite_(Duddon_Valley)/Seathwaite_(Duddon_Valley).php
title=Seathwaite (Duddon Valley) Cumbria the Lake District.
accessdate=2008-05-30] The name Seathwaite derives from a combination of the old norse words"sef" (sedges) and "thveit" (clearing) and may be taken to mean "Sedges clearing".The name, then spelled Seuthwayt, first appeared in written records dating from 1340.cite web
url=http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sw.rae/
url=http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sw.rae/towns.htm
author=Stuart Rae (cites book by Robert Gambles)
title=Lake District Walks and Photos
accessdate=2008-05-30] cite book
title=Lake District Place-names
last=Gambles
first=Robert
year=1985
edition=2
pages=64
publisher=Dalesman
location=Yorkshire
isbn=085206814X]

A local landmark in Seathwaite is the Newfield Inn, a pub that dates from the sixteenth century that is reputed to have been visited by William Wordsworth on his trips to the Lake district in the early nineteenth century. Another prominent local building is the Church of the Holy Trinity which was originally built in the early 1500s. William Wordsworth visited the church and dedicated one of his 35 Duddon Sonnets to the place and to the Reverend Robert Walker (1709-1802) who was parson at the church for 66 years. The church contains a memorial plaque to Walker, who was known as "Wonderful Walker" because of his long and exemplary ministry. Wordsworth refers to him in the sonnet as someone "whose good works formed an endless retinue". The church itself was completely rebuilt in 1874 due to its rundown state, it was reconsecrated in May 1875.cite web|url=http://www.pub-explorer.com/cumbria/pub/newfieldinnseathwaite.htm
title=Newfield Inn - Seathwaite Broughton in Furness Cumbria
accessdate=2008-05-30] cite web
url=http://www.duddonvalley.co.uk/phdi/p3.nsf/supppages/0955?opendocument&part=7
title=Pubs, shop and Refreshments
accessdate=2008-05-30] cite web
url=http://www.duddonvalley.mysite.orange.co.uk/duddonaccom/newfield.html
title=Newfield Inn, Seathwaite, Duddon Valley
accessdate=2008-05-30] "Ordnance Survey Leisure Guide - Lake District", ISBN 0 86145 192 9, Page 57, Gives information on Holy Trinity Church.] [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/venue.php?V=4742 www.achurchnearyou.com.] Gives information on Holy Trinity Church.]

See also

* Cumbrian placename etymology

References