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488 PRESTON P ATRICK AND PRESTON RICHARD.

• Preston Richard was added, the joint population numbering about. 1,000. The income has been several times augmented with grants from Queen Anne's Bounty and donations, and the living is now worth £264. It is in the gift of the Bishop of Carlisle, and held by the Rev. H. V. Burgh, B.A. (Lond.), who was inducted in 1906. Itis as well to mention, perhaps, that the church is generally known as St. Gregory's, though beyond the fact of it standing on a hill bearing the name, and the existence of a well in the immediate neighbourhood being dedicated to that saint, there seems to be no reason why it should be. Certain it is that on the rebuilding and enlargement of the church it was consecrated on October 14th, 1853, by the name of St. Patrick. Whether the chapel which stood here in earlier ages was dedicated to St. Gregory is not known. The vicarage is a neat residence, erected in 1875. In the church­ yard is a venerable yew tree, which was described in 1692 as being very old and decayed. The School was built by subscription in 1780, and in 1814, at the enclosure of the commons~ was endowed with an allotment of 20 acres, how let for £13 a year. It has been twice enlarged, and will accommodate 150 pupils, but is attended by only 86. The Friends' Meeting House erected here in 1691, was restored in 1866. Challon Hall, now a farm-house, was rebuilt in 1770. It was anciently known as Chanon Hall, from the canons of the abbey to whom it is supposed to have belonged. It is now the property of Jacob Wakefield, Esq. Lane House, Long Croft, and Summerdell are handsome villas in the parish.

Preston Richard. This parish lies within Kendal Ward, petty sessional division and poor law union, the county court district of Kirkby Lonsdale, the rural district of South Westmorland, and the county council electoral division of Crooklands. It includes within its limits the villages and hamlets of CROOKLANDS, BmKRIGG PARK, ENDMOOR, MILTON, Low PARK, and a number of detached dwellings bearing different names; and distant from two to five miles N.E. from Milnthorpe, and from five and a half to six and a half miles S.E. of Kendal. The gross estimated rental of the township is £4,660, and the rateable value £4,187. This manor was known at the time of the Domesday Survey as Preston Ucthred, from its Saxon owner, and at a later period as Preston Richard, from a family who owned it for 200 years, through the whole of which time there was never wanting an heir of the name of Richard de Preston. They were a puissant family, and several of them at various times represented the county in Parlia­ ment. The last Richard, leaving two daughters heiresses, this