Applethwaite is a village in the foothills of Skiddaw near Keswick in the English Lake District.

It is in the county of Cumbria, and forms part of the civil parish of Underskiddaw, which has a population of 282.

[2] Applethwaite is mentioned in Alfred Wainwright's The Northern Fells guide book.

The narrator/nursemaid Hester in "The Old Nurse’s Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell is from this village.

St Marys church in the village is plain with some stained glass windows.