Cartmel Fell

Cartmel Fell is in The Lake District National Park in England.

Cartmel Fell is a Hamlet in South Lakeland, with a population of 329 in 2011.

Cartmel Fell’s church, St. Anthony’s was built as a chapel of ease for Cartmel Priory in about 1504. It was extended in 1520 and restored in 1911. The church contains some 17th Century boxed pews situated on the South side of the church. On the North side is a boxed pew, known as the Cowmire Hall pew and it is thought to have been made from the Chancel screen, in 1571. The church also has a rare three-decker pulpit of 1698.

It is the only church in the North of England dedicated to St Anthony.

There was a school next to St Anthony’s Church that opened in 1871. It closed in 1971 and the building is now the parish hall.

Cartmel Fell is the subject of a chapter of Alfred Wainwright’s book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. He names Cartmel Fell as the ‘elevated tangle of bracken and coppice forming the Winster Valley’s western flanks’. Describing a walk from the church to the summit of Raven’s Barrow at 500 feet (150 m), which he says is ‘a lovely belvedere for viewing a lovely valley’.

Created: 29  August  2016  Edited: 29  November  2023