Finsthwaite is a small village in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England.

It is located near the Furness Fells and Windermere.

Finsthwaite has a place of worship, St Peter's Church, and a Bobbin Mill called Stott Park Bobbin Mill, now a working museum.

Finsthwaite is in the civil parish of Colton.

[1] A picture of Finsthwaite in the eighteenth century is found in the account book of one of its residents.