| Cartmel Fell | |
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  Cartmel Fell Location within Cumbria | |
| Population | 329 (2011) [1] |
| OS grid reference | SD4188 |
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| Unitary authority | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GRANGE-OVER-SANDS |
| Postcode district | LA11 |
| Post town | WINDERMERE |
| Postcode district | LA23 |
| Dialling code | 01539 |
| Police | Cumbria |
| Fire | Cumbria |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
Cartmel Fell is a hamlet and a civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 309, [2] increasing at the 2011 census to 329. [1] The village of Cartmel and its church, Cartmel Priory, are not in this parish but in Lower Allithwaite to the south. Cartmel Fell church is about 7 miles (11 km) north of Cartmel Priory.
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The neighbouring civil parishes are Windermere parish to the north west, where the boundary includes some of the shore line of Windermere; Crook to the north east; Crosthwaite and Lyth to the east; Witherslack to the south east; Lindale and Newton-in-Cartmel to the south; and Staveley-in-Cartmel to the south west.
St. Anthony's Church was built as a chapel of ease for Cartmel Priory in about 1504, and has changed little since. It contains some 17th-century box pews and a rare three-decker pulpit of 1698 as well as stained glass which may have come from Cartmel Priory. [3] [4]
There was a school next to St Anthony's Church that opened in 1871 and closed in 1971. [5] The building is now the parish hall. [6]
There are 34 listed buildings in the parish. The church [7] and two 1890s houses by C.F.A. Voysey (Broadleys [8] and Moor Crag [9] ) are Grade I listed; Hodge Hill [10] is Grade II* and the remaining houses, barns, bridge etc. are Grade II. [11]
One mile (1.6 km) to the north-east, the Grade II* listed Cowmire Hall (in the parish of Crosthwaite and Lyth) incorporates a 16th-century pele tower, whilst the main block of the house dates from the 17th century. [12] [13] Also of note is Chapel House, Ravensbarrow Lodge, and Danes Court Cottage.[ citation needed ]
Cartmel Fell is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland . Wainwright names as Cartmel Fell the "elevated tangle of bracken and coppice forming [the Winster Valley]'s western flanks", and describes a walk from the church to the summit Raven's Barrow at 500 feet (150 m), which he calls "a lovely belvedere for viewing a lovely valley". He says that the cairn is locally known as Ravensbarrow or Rainsbarrow Old Man. [14] To the northwest is Heights Tarn, a small lake on private land.
