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unusual facts about Staveley-in-Cartmel


Staveley-in-Cartmel

4 miles away is Buck Crag, which was once the residence of Edmund Law, curate of Staveley-in-Cartmel and local teacher.


Amanda Staveley

In 1996, at the age of 22 and without any training, Staveley borrowed £180,000 and bought the restaurant, Stocks, in Bottisham between Cambridge and Newmarket.

Also in 2008 Staveley fronted a bid by the Qatar Investment Authority to buy the Trillium facilities management business from the Land Securities property group, an offer reportedly totaling £1.1 billion.

Cartmel College, Lancaster

It is named after the Cartmel peninsula of "Lancashire north of the sands" which was once known as The Land of Cartmel.

Cartmel Racecourse

Cartmel Racecourse is a small racecourse in the village of Cartmel, now in the Ceremonial County of Cumbria, historically in Lancashire.

Eric Varley

Varley was born in Poolsbrook near Staveley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire and left school at 15 to become a craftsman, first in the local iron works and then for the local mining industry.

Gilpin's Westmorland Extra Dry Gin

Gilpin's Westmorland Extra Dry Gin is a super-premium London Dry Gin distilled in London in small batches using the traditional pot still method with spring water from Cartmel in the English Lake District.

Grange Fell Church, Grange-Over-Sands

Its benefice is united with those of St Mary, Allithwiate, St Mary and St Michael, Cartmel, St Peter, Field Broughton, St John the Baptist, Flookburgh, St Paul, Grange-over-Sands, and St Paul, Lindale, to form the benefice of Cartmel Peninsula.

History of Lancashire

In the early 1090s Lonsdale, Cartmel and Furness were added to Roger's estates to facilitate the defence of the area south of Morecambe Bay from Scottish raiding parties, which travelled round the Cumberland coast and across the bay at low water, rather than through the mountainous regions of the Lake District.

Holker

Holker Hall, country house with a celebrated garden situated on the Cartmel Peninsula, Cumbria, England

I Didn't Know You Cared

The main characters are Carter Brandon (played by Stephen Rea and, in series 3 and 4, Keith Drinkel); his Uncle Mort (Robin Bailey); his mother, Annie (Liz Smith); his father, Les (John Comer); his girlfriend (later wife), Pat Partington (Anita Carey and, in series 3 and 4, Liz Goulding); and Uncle Staveley (Bert Palmer and, in series 4, Leslie Sarony).

Isaac Wilkinson

By now, Isaac was living in Cartmel, enjoying several business interests, including the Lowwood iron company.

Jimmy Poxton

Born in Staveley, he joined Gillingham from West Bromwich Albion in 1928 and went on to make 43 appearances for the club in The Football League.

John Akister

Akister was born in Brighton in England, and was educated at Staveley Public School and Windermere Grammar School in Westmorland, and Salford Technical College.

John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville

Frescheville was the son of Sir Peter Frescheville of Staveley, Derbyshire and his first wife Joyce Fleetwood, daughter of Thomas Fleetwood of The Vache, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire.

Low Newton

Low Newton, Cumbria, a village located on the Cartmel Peninsula in Cumbria, England

Millhouses engine shed

Millhouses shed closed on 1 January 1962, the shed's remaining engines were transferred to Canklow, Barrow Hill Engine Shed and Staveley Great Central.

Natascha Engel

In the speech Engel concentrated on constituency affairs, supporting devolution of power and resources to local communities and highlighting examples in Staveley and Grassmoor.

Nathaniel Cartmell

While the reason why Cartmell was nicknamed "Bloody Neck" is not entirely known, author Ken Rappoport speculates that it either comes from his use of the term Bloody due to the fact his family came from Cartmel, England, or from the fact that he had a childhood accident where he lost two and a half fingers from his right hand when an ax slipped while he was chopping wood.

Netherthorpe School

Francis Rodes, by will, 29th of robert was here Elizabeth, left a yearly rent charge of £20 per annum, to be taken forth of his manor of Elmton; £8 thereof to the Grammar school, at Staveley Netherthorpe, £8 for two scholarships in St. John's, Cambridge, and £4 for the relief of soldiers who should be sent to the wars out of Staveley, Barlborough, and Elmton.

River Rother, South Yorkshire

Half of the total of 2,500 chub and 2,500 roach were released near the new weir, and the other half at Hall Road in Staveley.

The County College, Lancaster

In October 2006 County South expanded with the opening of three large residence houses built on the site of demolished Cartmel residence blocks.

W. M. Hodgkins

William Mathew went to school at Staveley, Derbyshire and his exercise book in penmanship survives, prefiguring his adult career as a law clerk and lawyer and his lifelong interest in graphics.


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