Nether Kellet

{{Infobox UK place

| static_image_name = NK-village-hall.jpg

| static_image_width = 240

| static_image_caption = Nether Kellet Village Hall

| official_name = Nether Kellet

| type = Village and civil parish

| country = England

| region = North West England

| population = 663

| population_ref = (2011)

| os_grid_reference = SD504681

| coordinates = {{coord|54.107|-2.759|display=inline,title}}

| post_town = CARNFORTH

| postcode_area = LA

| postcode_district = LA6

| dial_code = 01524

| civil_parish = Nether Kellet

| shire_district = Lancaster

| shire_county = Lancashire

| constituency_westminster = Morecambe and Lunesdale

| pushpin_map = United Kingdom City of Lancaster

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in the City of Lancaster district

| static_image_2_name = Nether Kellet Village Green - geograph.org.uk - 5513.jpg

| static_image_2_caption = Village Green

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Nether Kellet is a village and civil parish in the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, England, a few miles south of Carnforth. It had a population of 646 recorded in the 2001 census,{{cite web | url=http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/documents/information/Parish_headcount.pdf | title=Parish headcount | accessdate=2008-04-13 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210214612/http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/documents/information/Parish_headcount.pdf | archivedate=10 December 2006 | df=dmy-all }} increasing to 663 at the 2011 Census,{{NOMIS2011|id=E04005196|title=Nether Kellet Parish|access-date=27 March 2021}} and again to 738 at the 2021 census.{{Cite web |title=UK Census (2021) |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/customprofiles/build/#E04005196 |access-date=17 February 2024 |website=Office for National Statistics - Census 2021}} The parish includes the small hamlet of Addington, to the east.

Community

Nether Kellet is one of the Thankful Villages - only 53 of which are known. These villages and parishes sent men to fight in the Great War, 1914–1918, and all of them came back alive. Nether Kellet sent 21. Their near neighbour, Arkholme, {{convert|5|mi|km}} to the east, sent by far the most, 59 men, all of whom returned. It is remarkable to think that two small villages, geographically so close to one another, escaped unscathed from such a conflagration.

Furthermore, Nether Kellet was doubly thankful,{{cite news |title=Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars |author=Jon Kelly |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15671943 |newspaper=BBC News |date=11 November 2011 |access-date=11 November 2011}} as 16 villagers served in World War II, 1939–1945, without loss of life.

Nether Kellet's Anglican Church of St Mark is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Holy Trinity, Bolton-le-Sands.{{cite web |title=Bolton-le-Sands Holy Trinity (map) |url=https://www.blackburn.anglican.org/storage/general-files/shares/About%20us/Our%20Deaneries/Tunstall/201701_Bolton_le_Sands_HT.pdf |publisher=Diocese of Blackburn |access-date=26 July 2023}}{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Welcome to Holy Trinity Bolton-le-Sands with St Mark's Nether Kellet |url=https://bolton-le-sands.org.uk/ |website= |publisher=Parish of Holy Trinity Bolton-le-Sands |access-date=26 July 2023}}{{cite web |title=Nether Kellet St Mark |url=https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/st-mark-nether-kellet |website=National Churches Trust |access-date=26 July 2023 |language=en}} Nether Kellet Congregational Church is part of the Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches.{{cite web |title=Nether Kellet Congregational Church |url=https://www.efcc.org.uk/church/nether-kellet-congregational-church/ |website=Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches |access-date=26 July 2023}}

Geography

The village is located south of Over Kellet, north of Halton, west of Aughton and east of Bolton-le-Sands.

In literature

Not far away, off Dunald Mill Lane and little known today beyond caving circles, lies {{ws|Dunold Mill-Hole}} (now Dunald Mill Hole), subject of a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836). The accompanying plate, from a painting by George Pickering, shows a number of ramblers with a dog climbing on rocks beside a waterfall. {{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PT42|section=poetical illustration|page=32|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PT44|section=picture|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}

References

External links

Category:Villages in Lancashire

Category:Civil parishes in Lancashire

Category:Geography of the City of Lancaster