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{{Short description|Civil parish in Cumbria, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| static_image_name = View Towards Wray Castle and the Langdale Pikes - geograph.org.uk - 1550044.jpg
| static_image_caption = Wray Castle and the Langdale Pikes
| official_name = Claife
| country = England
| region = North West England
| os_grid_reference = SD3795
| coordinates = {{coord|54.370|-2.960|display=inline,title}}
| population = 298
| population_ref = ''(2011)''<ref name=census2011/>
| civil_parish = Claife <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.claifeparishcouncil.org.uk/|title=Claife Parish Council | Claife PCC| - HOME|website=www.claifeparishcouncil.org.uk}}</ref>
|unitary_england= [[Westmorland and Furness]]
|lieutenancy_england= [[Cumbria]]
| constituency_westminster = [[Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)|Westmorland and Lonsdale]]
| post_town = AMBLESIDE
| postcode_district = LA22
| postcode_area = LA
| dial_code = 01539
| pushpin_map = United Kingdom South Lakeland
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in South Lakeland
}}

'''Claife''' is a [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[Westmorland and Furness]] Unitary Authority of [[Cumbria]], England. It is situated west of [[Windermere]], and east of [[Esthwaite Water]] and the village of [[Hawkshead]]. In the [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 census]] the parish had a population of 392,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/eLibrary/Content/Internet/536/642/1369/3936414473.pdf | title=Parish information from the 2001 census | publisher=Cumbria County Council | accessdate=14 February 2009 | archive-date=29 December 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229075640/https://www.cumbria.gov.uk/eLibrary/Content/Internet/536/642/1369/3936414473.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> reducing to 298 at the 2011 census.<ref name=census2011>{{NOMIS2011|id=E04002595|title=Claife Parish|access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref> Settlements in the parish include two villages, [[Near and Far Sawrey]] in the south; and the hamlets of High Wray, Low Wray, Colthouse and Loanthwaite in the north.

In the central area of the parish is [[Claife Heights]], a hilly area which rises to {{convert|800|ft}} above sea level at Latterbarrow and contains several [[tarn (lake)|tarns]].<ref>{{cite web | title='Townships: Claife', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8 (1914) | publisher=[[University of London]] & History of Parliament Trust | url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53337 | page=380 | accessdate=14 February 2009}}</ref> There is one major road in the parish, the [[B5285 road|B5285]] connecting [[Hawkshead]] to the [[Windermere Ferry]] terminus at Far Sawrey.

At Low Wray is [[Wray Castle]], a 19th-century house and grounds now owned by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. Many of the [[woodland]]s in the parish, including the area alongside Windermere are part of the National Trust's [[Hawkshead and Claife]] property.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-hawksheadandclaife/ | title=Hawkshead and Claife | publisher=National Trust | accessdate=14 February 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205213230/http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-hawksheadandclaife/ | archive-date=5 February 2009 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
{{portal|Cumbria}}
*[[Listed buildings in Claife]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/township/claife Cumbria County History Trust: Claife] (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)

{{Cumbria}}

[[Category:Civil parishes in Cumbria]]
[[Category:Westmorland and Furness]]

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Claife - Revision history

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