Blawith, a township and an ecclesiastical division in the civil parish of Ulverston, by Coniston Lake, 4 miles from Torver station on the Coniston branch of the Furness railway, 5 from Greenodd station on the Windermere branch of the Furness railway, and 7 1/2 N of the town of Ulverston, under which it has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Greenodd. Acreage, 2995 ; population of the township, 153; of the ecclesiastical district, 180. The Duke of Buccleuch is lord of the manor. Much of the surface is upland moor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £180 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The church, which is dedicated to St John the Baptist, is an edifice of slatestone and red sandstone in the Gothic style, and was built in 1862.
