Nibthwaite
Coordinates: 54°18′00″N 3°04′59″W / 54.300°N 3.083°W
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]
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