Seathwaite is a village in the Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria in North West England.

[4] A local landmark is the Newfield Inn, a pub that dates from the 16th century that is reputed to have been visited by William Wordsworth on his trips around the Lake District in the early 19th century.

[4] Another prominent local building is the Church of the Holy Trinity which was originally built in the early 16th century.

Wordsworth refers to him in the sonnet as someone "whose good works formed an endless retinue".

The church itself was completely rebuilt in 1874 due to its rundown state, it was reconsecrated in May 1875.