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Nibthwaite is a village in the South Lakeland District in the county of Cumbria. It is in the civil parish of Colton, Cumbria, and on the east side of Coniston Water. There was a furnace and forge at Nibthwaite from 1751 to 1840, later (c1850) replaced by a bobbin mill, see Harrison Ainslie The family of the author Arthur Ransome regularly holidayed at Nibthwaite when he was a child, and he incorporated local places and customs into the five of his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books which were set in the Lake District, around a lake based on both Coniston Water and Windermere. 〔''The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome'', edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, pp1-4 (Jonathan Cape, 1976)〕 〔 ''The Life of Arthur Ransome'', by Hugh Brogan, pp1-4 (Jonathan Cape, 1984) 〕 == References == 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nibthwaite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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