CLAIFE, a township in the parish of HAWKESHEAD,
hundred of LONSDALE, north of the sands, county palatine
of LANCASTER, 2 miles (S. E.) from Hawkeshead,
containing 452 inhabitants. This place is bounded on
the east by Easthwaite .water, and on the west by the
beautiful lake of Windermere, which at this point is
only a quarter of "a mile in breadth, and across which
there is a constant ferry for horses and foot passengers.
Here is a charity school, founded in 1766, by a bequest
of £309 from William Braithwaite, now producing
£16. 16. per annum.