[1] The church has a maypole in front of it: now a listed structure, it was built originally to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Nether Wasdale is served by the ancient Bridle Path "Guards Lonning" that runs from Lane Side east of Gosforth along to Guards Head, between Blengdale Forest[3] and the newly planted Bamse's Wood, across a wooden footbridge at Kid Beck and down between Yew Tree Farm and Windsor Farm into Nether Wasdale.

[6] Nether Wasdale was historically a chapelry within the larger ancient parish of St Bees.

The chapelry covered a large area stretching north-east from the village along the north-west side of Wastwater.

The chapelry of Nether Wasdale became a separate civil parish under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1866.