Allerdale District Cumbria England United Kingdom
54.620164,-3.141241

Applethwaite

Applethwaite is a village in the foothills of Skiddaw near Keswick in the English Lake District. It is in the county of Cumbria, and forms part of the civil parish of Underskiddaw, which has a population of 282. The name derives from it originally being the clearing in a forest with apples in it. Applethwaite is mentioned in Alfred Wainwright's The Northern Fells guide book. The narrator/nursemaid Hester in "The Old Nurse’s Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell is from this village.

Distance between:

London to Applethwaite 250 Miles / 402 Kms
Liverpool to Applethwaite 84 Miles / 136 Kms

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