Applethwaite, a township and a parish in Westmoreland. The township contains Windermere village and railway station, includes part of Windermere Lake, and extends southward from the mouth of Troutbeck Vale to about a mile from Bowness. Post town, Windermere. Acreage, 9121; population of civil parish, 2252; of ecclesiastical, 1926. An upland tract on the NE side, between Troutbeck and Kentmere, is Applethwaite Common, on which is a reservoir with a capacity of 10,000,000 gallons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; value, £260. Patron, the Bishop of Carlisle.