| Static Image Name: | Cartmel Fell Church - geograph.org.uk - 2035718.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | St. Anthony's Church |
| Official Name: | Cartmel Fell |
| Country: | England |
| Region: | North West England |
| Os Grid Reference: | SD4188 |
| Coordinates: | 54.283°N -2.896°W |
| Population: | 329 |
| Population Ref: | (2011) |
| Civil Parish: | Cartmel Fell |
| Shire District: | South Lakeland |
| Shire County: | Cumbria |
| Constituency Westminster: | Westmorland and Lonsdale |
| Post Town: | GRANGE-OVER-SANDS |
| Postcode District: | LA11 |
| Postcode Area: | LA |
| Post Town1: | WINDERMERE |
| Postcode District1: | LA23 |
| Postcode Area1: | LA |
| Dial Code: | 01539 |
Cartmel Fell is a hamlet and a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 309, increasing at the 2011 census to 329. The village of Cartmel and Cartmel Priory are not in this parish but in Lower Allithwaite, to the south: Cartmel Fell church is about 7 miles north of Cartmel Priory.
The neighbouring civil parishes are Windermere parish to the north west, where the boundary includes some of the shore line of the lake, 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.[1] [2]
There was a school next to St Anthony's Church that opened in 1871 and closed in 1971.[3] The building is now the parish hall.[4] There are 34 listed buildings in the parish. The church and two 1890s houses by C.F.A. Voysey (Broadleys and Moor Crag) are Grade I listed; Hodge Hill is Grade II* and the remaining houses, barns, bridge etc. are Grade II.[5]
A mile 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.[6] Also of note is Chapel House, Ravensbarrow Lodge, and Danes Court Cottage.
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 500feet, 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.[7] To the northwest is Heights Tarn, a small lake on private land.
. Alfred Wainwright. The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. 1974. Westmorland Gazette. Kendal. 42–43. Cartmel Fell.