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Braithwaite is a village in the northern Lake District, England.
Braithwaite may also refer to:
- Braithwaite (surname), people with the surname
- HMS Braithwaite (K468), Royal Navy Buckley-class destroyer in World War II
- Braithwaite baronets, two baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital, a hospital in Port Harcourt
- Braithwaite Hall, a manor house in Coverdale, North Yorkshire, England
- Braithwaite railway station, disused North West England railway station
- Braithwaite, Louisiana
- Braithewaite, West Virginia
Braithwaite is a village in the northern Lake District, in Cumbria, England. Historically within Cumberland, it lies just to the west of Keswick and to the east of the Grisedale Pike ridge, in the Borough of Allerdale. It forms part of the civil parish of Above Derwent.
The eastern end of the Whinlatter Pass road is in the village. The A66 road bypasses Braithwaite, but does not enter the village.
Braithwaite is situated around Coledale Beck, a brook which joins Newlands Beck shortly after passing through the village. Newlands Beck (coming from the Newlands Valley) then flows north towards Bassenthwaite Lake.
Braithwaite has several pubs, including the Coledale Inn, the Royal Oak and the Middle Ruddings Hotel. Braithwaite is easily accessible due to its close proximity to the A66. It has a campsite with a caravan park, B + Bs, pubs and guest houses. It has a wide range of sports including sailing, climbing, abseiling, canoeing, hang-gliding, parasailing, orienteering, bird watching (For ospreys in the nearby lakes), photography and virtually any other outdoor pursuit all within four miles of the village.
Nearby is the Hope Memorial Camp, a residential centre used throughout the year by youth groups from all over the country. The camp was the brain-child of Mr A H Hope, Headmaster of The Roan School, Greenwich (now John Roan School) from 1916 to 1930. In 1923, with his own money, Hope bought forty acres of land to the north-west of the village and built four huts on it, to provide his South London grammar school boys with 'an opportunity of seeing mountains and lakes and of having the valuable experience of camping and living at close quarters with others.' With the aid of The Roan Foundation, the original green and white painted wooden structures were replaced in 1989 by more substantial ones using modern building materials.
The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway, now closed, called at a station in Braithwaite.
Braithwaite is situated next to the fell called Barrow. A small mountain in the Newlands region which is a short walk from Braithwaite.
Braithwaite is near to the Whinlatter Forest which has many walking trails of varying length.
Braithwaite, Brathwaite, or Brathwait is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, the relative frequency of the surname Braithwaite was highest in Westmorland (37.3 times the British average), followed by Cumberland, Yorkshire, Linlithgowshire, Lancashire, County Durham, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Anglesey and Flintshire. Notable people with the surname include:
- Sir Albert Braithwaite (1893–1959), British politician
- Bob Braithwaite (1925–2015), British trap shooter
- Brenda Brathwaite (born 1966), American video game designer and developer
- Carlos Brathwaite (born 1988), Barbadian cricketer
- Charles Braithwaite (1850–1910), Canadian politician and agrarian leader
- Chris Braithwaite aka Chris Jones (1885–1944), Barbadian seaman, leader of the Colonial Seamen's Association
- Darren Braithwaite (born 1969), British sprinter
- Daryl Braithwaite (born 1949), Australian pop singer
- Donald Braithwaite (born 1937), Welsh professional boxer
- Doug Braithwaite British comic book artist
- Edward Kamau Brathwaite (born 1930), Barbadian poet
- E. R. Braithwaite (born 1920), Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat
- Errol Brathwaite (1924–2005), New Zealand author
- Fred Brathwaite (born 1972), Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
- Geoffrey Braithwaite, fictional character in Julian Barnes's novel Flaubert's Parrot
- George Braithwaite (disambiguation)
- Sir Gurney Braithwaite, 1st Baronet (1895–1958), English politician
- Jahron Anthony Brathwaite aka PartyNextDoor, Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and rapper
- Jeffrey Braithwaite, Australian professor in the field of health policy
- Jessica Braithwaite, Australian television presenter and reporter
- John Braithwaite (disambiguation)
- Joseph Braithwaite (mayor) (1848–1917), New Zealand bookseller and politician, mayor of Dunedin
- Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (1818–1905), English Quaker minister
- Junior Braithwaite (1949–1999), Jamaican reggae musician
- Keith Braithwaite, New Zealand football player and manager
- Kraigg Brathwaite (born 1992), West Indian cricket international
- Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (1963–2008) Canadian novelist, spoken word artist, dub poet, essayist, digital drummer and short fiction writer
- Leon Braithwaite (born 1972), English footballer
- Leonard Braithwaite (1923–2012), Canadian lawyer and politician
- Dame Lilian Braithwaite (1873–1948), English actress
- Martin Braithwaite (born 1991), Danish footballer
- Max Braithwaite (1911–1995), Canadian novelist and non-fiction author
- Michael Braithwaite (born 1987), Canadian rower
- Sir Nicholas Brathwaite (born 1925), prime minister of Grenada
- Nicholas Braithwaite (born 1939), English conductor
- Pandora Braithwaite, fictional character in the Adrian Mole series by British author Sue Townsend
- Ray Braithwaite (born 1933), Australian politician
- Rewi Braithwaite ( fl. 1920s), New Zealand football player
- Richard Brathwait or Brathwaite (1588–1673), English poet
- R. B. Braithwaite (1900–1990), English philosopher
- Robert Braithwaite (bryologist) (1824–1917), English botanist
- Robert Braithwaite (engineer) (born 1943), British engineer
- Robert Braithwaite (judge) (born 1950), United States District Court judge
- Roderick Braithwaite (1901–1963), New Zealand politician, mayor of Hamilton
- Sir Rodric Braithwaite (born 1932), British diplomat and author
- Ryan Brathwaite (born 1988), Barbadian track and field athlete
- Stephen Brathwaite (born c.1949), Canadian actor and puppeteer
- Stuart Braithwaite (born 1976), Scottish guitarist, bassist, drummer, singer and songwriter
- Talabi Braithwaite (1928–2011), Nigerian insurance broker
- Ted Braithwaite (1902–unknown), English footballer
- Tut Braithwaite (born 1946), Paul "Tut" Braithwaite, British rock climber and mountaineer
- Sir Walter Braithwaite (1865–1945), British Army general during World War I
- Walter Braithwaite (composer) (1906–1991), English composer, pianist and teacher
- Warwick Braithwaite (1896–1971), New Zealand-born British conductor
- Wayne Braithwaite (born 1975), Guyanese professional boxer
- William Charles Braithwaite (1862–1922), British Quaker historian
- William Garnett Braithwaite (1870–1937), British Army general who served with New Zealand Military Forces during World War I
- William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), African-American poet, literary critic and scholar
Usage examples of "braithwaite".
It was Braithwaite, Lord William Male's secretary, who had sidled alongside Sharpe.
He was a few inches taller than Sharpe, but much thinner, and had a lugubrious face with quick eyes that never seemed to look at Sharpe for long before darting sideways, almost as though Braithwaite expected to be attacked at any second.
He grinned at Sharpe, offered Mathilde his arm, inclined his head to Braithwaite and walked on.
Him"-he pointed at a lascar seaman-"rams it and you"-he peered at Braithwaite again-"puts the shot in and the blackie rams that as well and none of you landlubbers gets in his way, and you"-he looked at Sharpe-"aims the piece.
The paper had been signed by Peculiar Cromwell and, on Lord William's behalf, by Malachi Braithwaite, MA Oxon.
Malachi Braithwaite said, shuddering after one particularly evil supper.
The report would suggest the future governance of India and Braithwaite enjoyed the work, but late every afternoon he was dismissed back to the lower deck and his gnawing misery.
Sharpe had an hour before the dinner was to be served and he went below to brush the red coat and, to his astonishment, found Malachi Braithwaite seated on his traveling chest.
Sharpe said and waited, but Braithwaite said nothing, just watched as Sharpe draped the red coat over the edge of the hanging cot and began to brush it vigorously.
It had taken almost all Braithwaite's courage to voice the threat, but he was encouraged by a rancor that was eating him like a tapeworm.
Sharpe's face betrayed no emotion as he stared at the secretary, but he was privately appalled that Braithwaite had discovered his secret.
They had both believed they were being discreet, but Braithwaite had seen and now he was bitter with envy.
In India, Braithwaite, there are men called jettis who kill by wringing their victims' necks like chickens.
I've killed more men, Braithwaite, than you can imagine in your worst nightmare, but I've never wrung a man's neck till it creaked.
You'll be dead, Braithwaite, and I won't give a rat's droppings about doing it.