SEASCALE is a village and sea bathing-place with a station on the Furness railway, and is 290 miles from London, 12 ½ south-east from Whitehaven, 3 south from Gosforth, 8 south-west from Wastwater, and 3 south-east from Calder Bridge. The church of St. Cuthbert, at present a chapel of ease to Gosforth, was built in 1890, at a cost of £4,100, and occupies a fine site above the village; it is an edifice of local red sandstone, in the Deoorated and Perpendicular styles, from designs by Mr. C. J. Ferguson F.S.A., architect, of Carlisle, and consists of chancel, with organ chamber on the south side, nave, aisles, south porch, and a gable bell-cote at the west end, containing one bell. The church affords 500 sittings. The Rev. Hugh Macefield Fairlie M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, has been curate in charge since 1893. The Scawfell Hotel, erected about 1849, is the property of Mr. John Tyson. The beach is a fine and open one, and has very smooth sands. During the summer season this place is much frequented by visitors for the purpose of sea-bathing and golfing. For the latter, there are links close to the hotel. Many tourists also avail themselves of the opportunity the station and hotel afford of visiting Wostdale, Wastwater, Scaw Fell Pike, &c. Half a mile from the station, in Gray Croft, are some megalithic remains, once forming part of a now destroyed stone circle; only one stone now remains above ground, the others having been buried about 1820. High Bolton is a township 1 mile south-east and Low Bolton is a township half a mile south. The only hamlet in the parish is Hallsenna, anciently Hall Sevenhouse, or Senhouse.

Parish School, Seascale (mixed), erected in 1876, for 75 children; average attendance, 50.