Description
Claife, a township in Hawkshead parish, Lancashire, on the E side of Esthwaite Water, 2 miles SE of Hawkshead. Post towns, Windermere and Hawkshead; money order and telegraph office, Sawrey. Acreage, 4579; population, 631. Lower Claife was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1873, under the name of Sawrey, the church (St Peter's) being in the village of Sawrey Extra. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £190 yearly, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop. The church is a cruciform building in the Gothic style erected in 1872.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
