120 PRESTOX PATRICJC. WEST~IORLAND. [KELLY'S new carved oak pulpit was presented by his friends, as a 1 Sedgwick House, Kendal, a~d Lady Henry Bentinc~, ?f memf)~a! to the late William ~enry Wakefield esq. of j Underley Hall, are. the chief landowners. Th~ soil JS. .Sedgwtek House, Kendal. who died in r88g: the church heavy loam; subsoil, rock and gravel. The chief crops affords 350 sitti:r.gs. The register of baptisms and 'are oa~s, .turnips and pa~ture land. The area of t:fte.. marriages dates from the year 1704 and burials from j township IS ;~,648 acres of land . and. 8 of water; rat~- 1703, but thel'e are also marriages from this place in able value,. [5,431 ; the populat10~ m. 19n -w:_as 479 1n the registers 6f Burton, which see. The living is a i the township and 931 in the ecclesiastical parish. 1 vicarage, net vearly value [265, with residence, in the • • . h f C 1" 1 d h Id · o6 b Letters through Milnthorpe, Westmorland, arrive at 7.30 g ift of the BIS op o ar IS e, an e since 19 y E d M · th t d ... t 1 ~ f L d U · a.m. n oor Is e neares money or er "" e e- the Re v. H enrv UlvssPs B urgh B ·-"-· o on ·OD Diver- h :ffic 0 11ity. Here is a Friends' meeting house: there are also i grap e two corn mills. Poor Parrock's charity of £ 1 is for 1 Wall utter Boxes.-Crooklands, cleared at 8 a.m. ~ bread; the charity of Pbilip, 4th baron Wbarton, who : 5 15 p.m.; Nook, cleared at 4.30 p.m. week days only died Feb. 5, 16Q5, provides 30 bibles and a few prayer . Public ElemPntary School (mixed), founded in 1776 ~ and reward books, divided annually amongst the town- l endowed with 20 acres of land, producing about £8 ships of Langdale, Tebay, Bretberdale and Preston i yearly, enlarged in 1894, for 6o additional children; Patrick, the Jatter place receiving four bibles, four 1 the school will now hold 220; average attendance. go; prayer books and one reward book. The barl of Lons- : Thomas Frederick Portnell, master; Miss Edith Cook­ dale is lord of the manor. Jacob Wakefield esq. of I son, mistress Marked thus * should be addressed· *Coward Thomas, farmer, Audlands Parker Row land & George, agricui- Eud Moor, Kendal. Fletcher John, farmer, Challon ball tural .seed merchants, :Moss end Marked thus t receive letters via *Foster John, farmer, Barking house tParker Alfred, tea dealer, Nook Holme, Carnforth. tGarnett Martha (Miss), shpkpr.Nook *Parker James C. farmer, Elm Tree Bnrgh Rev. Henry Ulyss£>s B.A. The Gibson James, farmer, Springfield Proctor Edward, farmer, Wilson bo Vicarage tHayhurst Nelson Richd.frmr. Milton Pye Bros. millers(water),Millness milT Johnson Alexander V. Park end Hutchinson Henry, farmer. Camsgill Robinson Joseph, farmer, Milness halJ Parker Rowland, Long croft Kendal Equitable Co-operative Society *Robinson Leonard, farmer, Canny tPortnell Thomas F. Summerdell Limited, coal dealers Browfoot Shaw Thomas, :Millness house tMark George. farmer, Moss side *Teasdale \Villiam, farmer & assistan~ COMMERCIAL. *Mason William, farmer, West view overseer & rate collector, Audland Ahton Leonard, farmer, Hollin farm *Metcalf Thomas, farmer, High *Teesdale Richard, farmer, Gatebeck *.Atkinson John, farmer, Sillfield Bracken hall *Thompson James, farmer, Audland Baines Wm. farmer, Wath Suddon tMiddlebrough Cbas.frmr.Orchard ho Tomlinson Wm. S. frmr. Black Yeats- Beaumont Robert. farmer, Goose Grn Nelson John, farmer, Warth t·Walling Jn. & Jas.boot makers, Nook Bracken Thos.miller (water),Kakerml tNelson Thomas, hrmer, Milton tWilliams James, farmer. Spout bo

*Clark Wm. farmer,Low Bracken hall 1 Park Robert, farmer, Preston hall Wilson Charles, farmer, Birks PRESTON RICHARD, see Heversham. RAVENSTONEDALE is a very extensive parish Metcalfe M ..A.. in 1897· The living is a vicarage, ne• and village, in the ~orthern division of the county, yearly value £2oo, with 25 acres of glebe and residence, East ward, petty sessional division and union of the in the gift of the Earl of Lonsdale, and held since 1go-tJ East ward, county court district of Appleby, rural by the Rev. Thomas Sibley Boulton M.A. of Queenrs deanery of Appleby and Kirkby Stephen and arch- College, Oxford, and surrogate. The Congregational deaconry and diocese of Carlisle. The parish, with which (formerly English Presbyterian) chapel was founded the township and manor are conterminous, is nominally about 1662, when a congregation was formed under the divided into four portions, called respectively the Town Rev. Christopher Jackson, who had been ejected from Angle, Bowderdale Angle, FeU End Angle and Newbiggin the adjoining parish of Crosby Garrett at the Restora­ .Ang-le, but these divisions exist only in order to facilitate tion in x66o: the chapel is a building of stone, with an referPnce to particular sites and rPsidences. The village, c.pen turret containing one bell, and has sittings for once a marl1et cPntre, and of grPater extent, is pleasantly about 2co, and adjoining is a burial ground: the $eatpd on an acclivity at the confluence of the Scandale chapel was endowf>d by Philip, 4th baron Wbarton (ob. and StanegiJJ becks, with a station at Newbiggin, x! r6g5), with £xoo laid out in land, together with a sum milPs from the village. on the Tebay and Barnard Castle of £?.6, jointly contributed by Mr. Pindar, John Thomp­ section of the North Eastern railway, and is 4! south- son, Isabel Langhorn, James Fawcet and George Mur­ west from Kirk by StephPn. 8! south-by-west from thwaite; the endowment now consists of a manse, cot­ Brough, !I east-south-east from Orton, 13 south-by-east tage for caretaker and investments, producing about from Appleby and 270 from London. The village is £65 yearly. The manse, at the town bead, stands in 11n supplied with water from a spring, about 1 mile distant, acre of garden and affords good views of Wild Boar Fell the water being conveyed to the place and delivered and Green Be11 mountain. The Wesleyan chapel· was bnilt by a hydrant fixed in the main street; the hydrant and in 1839, and there is another at Fell End, built in x86x. water house were both erected in x8go, at the cost of .A. branch of the Yorkshire Penny Bank Limited is open T . .A. Metcalfe-Gibson esq. J.P. of Elm Lodge. The at the Public room on Tuesday evenings from 4 to 4.30 church of St. Oswald, erected in 1744, about 15 yards p.m. There is a Rea-ding room with a library of soo from the site of the earlier fa·bric, is a building of stone, volumes, built and prPsented to the parish in 1891 by consisting of chancel, nave, north and south porches T. Atkinson Metcalfe-Gibson esq. J.P. The charities and an embattled western tower, containing a clock include Hunter's, of £2 a year, arising from securities; with two dials, the gift of T. A. Metcalfe-Gibson esq. £4 a year from Mrs. Halliburton's bequest, and £x6 a and 3 bells: the south porch is said to be the porch of year from funds investl'd in railway stock; T . .A.irey's ~he old church, rebuilt identically: there are six stained charity, founded by will in I855, and J . .A.irey's, by gift windows, and in the chancel a brass to the Rev. Robert in 1859, togl'ther with Robinson's benefaction, provide Mounsey, 51 years minister here, d. 29 March, 1780, together 1,"14 6s . .£5 12s. of which is expended yearly :Mary, his wi:bw, d. 23 March, 1786, and two children: for bread, distributed at the church; there are other in thP nave is a mura] monument to Henry Fotbergi11 charitit>s furnishing an a~gregatP sum of [13 for dis­ esq. d. 25 April, 1753, Elizabeth, his wife, d. 5 March, tribution. and Holme's· gift supplies 15s. rod. for the Ii66, and tl eir eldest S()n, Gporge Fotbergill D D. prin- , clerk. ThP whole district, which is 9 miles in length cipal of St. Edmund Hall. Oxford, d. 5 Oct. 1760, and 5 in breadth, consists of thwaites and fells, with besides other!! of this family; there is also a mural ! beautiful and fertile valleys; it is bounded by that part tabl~t toJ the R€v. R. W. Metcalf~.> M . .A.. vicar from 1888 I of Yorkshire which lies north of Sedbergh, and environed to xgo8 : on the north side of the nave stands a " three- on other sides by the forest of Mallerstang, Smardale, decker" oak pulpit, the top tier of which contains a seat Raisheck and Tebay. At the south-western extremity, for the parson's wife : the organ was presented in Sept. under Green Bell mountain, at a place marked in the r89r by Anthony Metcalte-Gibso.n esq. as a memorial to maps as Lune Head, there issues a small stream. which his father and mother: the ancient church is said to flows down to the end of Bowderdale beck, and having hal·e had the privilege of sanctuary, which was claimed met a perenniill stream rising at Newbiggin, thereupon by ringing the church bell; the church tower was I takes the name of Lune, but is not, properly speakingy anciently built on four posts, open beneath, the bell i the source of that river, since its bed is sometimes dry. rope banging in the middle: the communion plate 1 On the West2rn slopes of Wild Boar Fell springs the was presented in 1743 by the Rev. George Fothergill 1Scandale beck, which, flowing northward through a fine D.D. fellow of Queen's College, Oxford: the seats face i open valley, joins at Coldbeek the waters of that of each other, as in colll'ge chapeh, and are all of dark • Stanegill, and the united stream proceeding through 1 .oak: there ar~ 420 sit.tings. The registers date from . Smardale to Soulby, there falls into the Eden. In the the year 1571, and were published by the Rev. R. W. ' Lord's Park, a little to the north of the town, is Gallows