FINSTHWAITE, a chapelry (parochial) in the parish of COULTON, hundred of LONSDALE, north of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER, 8 miles (N.E. by N.) from Ulverstone. The population is returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £ 600 private benefaction, and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the land-owner. The chapel, which is dedicated to St. Peter, was consecrated and made parochial in 1725. There is a small" endowment for a school, the gift of James Dixon, in 1729. Finsthwaite is bounded on the north-east by the outlet of Winandermere lake.