UIHECTORY.] 'YE:;Tl\IOHLAND. MANSERGH. 105

MALLERSTANG is a chapelry and large township, soil is peat and gravel; subsoil, limestone. The land in the civil pariosh of , Northern division is wholly in pasture. The area is 8,35~ acres; rateable of the county, petty sessional division of Kirkby value, £3,629; the population in 19O1 was 199. Stephen, union of East Ward, county court district of Appleby, and in the rural deanery of Appleby and CASTLETHWAITE is a. hamlet in thp. chapelry of Kirkby and archdeaconry and diocese of . The Mallerstang, 4 miles south frurn Kirkby Stephen station church of St. Mary, locally at , is on the high on the North Eastern railway, close to the Eden. On road to Hawes in Yorkshire, S! miles osouth from an artificial mound, which appears to have been Kirkby Stephen railway station, and i-s an ancient surrounded by a moat, are the ruins of Pendragon or edilic{' of stone originally in the Norman style, and Mallp.rstang Castle, said to have been huilt in the time consisting of nave and an open turret containing one of Vortigern (c. 424), by Uther Pendragon, 3rd son of bell: in 1661 it was repaired and endowed by Anne, Constantinus and 7th king c. 500) of South Britain; Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery, with land.. at he is said to have been the fathl'r of the renowned (autley, near , Yorks, now producing about King Arthur, and was treacherously poisoned, and ['26 yearly for the sole nse of the incllInbent, and in buried at Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain. To whom 18]9 it was partly restored by Lord Hothfield at a this castle belonged during some centuries anterior to cost of £ roo: the church was rest-ored and re-opened the :Xorman Conquest is unknc.wn, but it was the in 1909 at a cost of £ 355; the division wall and manorial seat of the Forest of ~allerstang, and belonged plaster ceiling were taken down and the church opened to Sir Hugh de Morville before it was granted, with the to its original fn11 length and height, the chancel being rest of the barony of lVestmorland, to the Veteripoints rai,ed and new choir seats provided: there are rIO and l'liffords: from an inquisition held in 1314, after sit~ings: the churchyard was consecrated in 1813. The the death of Robert de Clifford, it appears that there registers date from the :vear 1813, previous to which was then a castle in .Mallerstang, called "Pendragon," date they were kept at Kirkby Stephen. The living is held by Andrew de Harcla, by payment of a. Jearly rent a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £I30, in the gift of 6d. Although it never was a place of ver~' great of Lord Hothfield, and held ..ince 1908 by the Rev. extent, it was a very strong fortress, the walls being in Edwin Simpson M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. some places faur ~'ards thick. with hattlements. In Middleton's charity, consisting of IO cat-tlegates, pro­ r66I, after having lain in ruins for 120 years, it was duces £ IS IOS. yearly for bread, which is distributed thoroughly restored by Anne, Countess of Fembroke every Sunday morning to the poor who are not in and ~fontgomery, who about the same time repaired all receipt of parish relief; Hunter's, of two cattlei;ates, her other castles, and a bridge was built over the liver and the Poor's Stock together provide £ --l for distribu­ contIguous thereto, but ill r685 it was dismantled by tion in money at Ohrlstmas. The Eden here takes its Thomas, 6th Earl of Thanet, who eventuallv inheritl'd • rise and traverses the entire length of this township. hl'r estates, and the only parts now remaining of this On an eminence in t.his district, near the Ynrkshire once pmbattled stronghold are the mouldering remains border, is a stone pillar erected by Anne, Countess of of a square tower. Pembroke and :Wontgomery, in memory of Sir Hugh Lp-tters through Kirkby Stephen arrive at 9 a.Ill Morville kt. and inscribed A.P. r664; on the same Hanging Lund is a hamlet of Mallerstang, 6, miles mountain is the source of the rivers Yore and Swale, south of Kirkby Stephen. the former tak·ng its course through Wensleydale and Hellgill is a district, at the extreme southern point, the latter through Swaledale, in Yorkshire; immedi­ 7 mill'S from Kirkby Stephl'll, adjoining the county of ately opposite is . The fells yield lime­ York. stone in abundance, as well as lead ore and ironstone; at the Fell end are a colliery and a slate and flag OUTHGILL is a hamlet in Mallerstang. and 5 miles quarry, now, however, disused. In May, 1866, two sl,uth of Kirkby Stephen, and contains the church of cairns, on a piece of haugh land above the Eden, were St. Mary. Here is also a Wesleyan chapel, built in r8]8. examined by the Rev. Canon Grccnwell and the Rev. J. Simpson, vicar of Kirkby Stephen, and fOllnd to contain Post OlTtce, Outhgill.-James Thornhorruw, sub-post- traces of interments: several of the rectangular mounds master. Letters through Kirkby Stephen arrive at 8 here, called" giants' graves," were also examined, but a.m.; dispatched at 3·45 p.m.; no sunday deli,-ery. did not afford any indication of their having been Kirkby Stephen, 5 miles distant, is the nearest money places of burial. Lord Hothfield, who is lord of the order & telegraph office manor, Gerard E. Thompson and Richard Bovill Thomp- ShoreQ"ill is a hamlet in Mallerstang, 5 miles south of son esqrs. both of Stobars Hall, Capt. John Grimshaw Kirkby Stephen. D.L., J.P. of Hutton Lodge, Kirkby Stephcn, and Southwaite is a hamlet, s! miles south of Kirkby Joseph Torbock esq. J.P. of Crakenthorpe Hall, are chief Stephen. landowners; the trustees of the late William Cleashy, of Public Elementary School (mixed), built in r877; the RaTtley, Mr. William Dixon and Miss Dixon, of Raven- school will hold 48 children; average attendance, 29; stonedale, with others, are also landowners here. The Miss Annie Dodd, mistress MALLERSTAXG. Dent Samuel, farmer, Southwaite Xelson John, farmer, Bluegrass Simpson Rev.Edwin M.A.(incumbent) Dixon William, farmer, Castlethwaite Park Joseph, farmer, Croneberry Dobson George Douglas, farmer,Com-' Thornborrow John, grocer CO:\L\fERCIAL. ston hall Whaley J nhn, farmer, Hall hill

Alderson Ralph, farmer, Guy Thomas, farmer, Intack I Wharton Richard, farmer, Cocklake Allen James, farmer, Southwaite Harrison Richd. frmr. Hanging Lund I Wilson Isaac, farmer, Shoregill Allison Jane (~rrs.), farmr. Shorpgill Harrison Thomas, farmer, Carr ha A~kew Hagogarth, farmer,Angerholme Hird Wm. & Son,frmrs.Castlethwaite OlJTHGILL. Atkinson John, fanner, Sandpot c\'Ietcalf Thomas, farmer, Ing Ends Pell James, farmer Bf'll George, farmer, Birk rigg Metcalfp Wm. & Jsph. frmrs. Deepgill llobinson Michael, farmer "Bell I8abel (Mrs.), farmr. Cooper hill Metcalfe J ames, farmer, Hellgill Thexton Mrs. & Sons, frmrs. log hill Cowperthwaite Robt. farmer,Hanging ~Ietcalfe Wm. (Mrs.), farmer, Elmgill Thornborrow John, grocer &; boot dlr Lund & Little Ing Thornborrow William, farmer MANSERGH is a parish, 3~ miles from Barbon from the year 1813; prior to this date entries "Were station and 5 north from Kirkbv Lunsdale station, both made in the registers of . The living • O!l the Ingleton and Carlisle section of the London and is a vicarage, net ·yearly value £I79, "With residence, in North Western railway. The river Lune passes the town­ t he gift of the vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale, and held since ship on the east; it is in the Southern division of the 188r hy t.he Rev. Edward Furmston M.A. of University county,. ward and union of , Kirkbv. Lonsdale College, Durham. In this parish is Terry Bank Tarn, pettv. sessional division and countv. court district and a srr..all hke, 5 acres in extent. Rigmaden Park is the in the rural deanery of Kirkby Lonsdale, archdeaconr~' seat of Christopher Wyndham Wilson esq. D.L., J.P.; of and diocese of Carlisle. The eccle­ th':l mansion is a handsome building of stone, standing !1iastical parish was formed 13 March, 1866. The church near the rClad leading from Kirkby Lonsdale to Sed­ of S1. Peter is a building of stone in the late Perpen­ berg-h. More's charity provides Ss. a year for the poor dicular style, consisting of chancel with organ chamber, of this township. Christopher Wyndham Wilson esq. is nave, aisles, north transept, south porch and a western lor·i of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is turret containing one bell: there are two memorial light; subsoil, graveL The chief crops are oats and wit.dows and a monument, richly carved, to Edward turnips, and pasture land_ The area is 2,614 acres uf Wil~an esq. d. 23 ~~nch. 1870, and to Ann Clemen­ land and 55 of water; rateable value, £2,554; the popu­ tina (Feckwith), his widow, d. 3 Jul~', 1876: the Lltion in 19DI was 189. church wa;J rebuilt in 1880, at a cost of £2,5°0, and Sexton. John Wilson. affords 143 sittings. The separate registers date only Post Office, Old Town. Thomas Forrest, sub-post-