[KELLY's of Moor Row House, in This Parish: the Church Affords 1 Row House, Are the Principal Lando"Ners

48 BROMFIELD. CU~IBERLAND. [KELLY'S of Moor Row House, in this parish: the church affords 1 Row House, are the principal lando"ners. The lU'ea 400 sittings. The reglsterB date from the year 1654. is 3,028 acres; r<1teable value, £2,755; the population The hving is a vicarage, net yearly value £285, in tile in 1891 ,nls 271. gift of the Bishop of Carlisle and held since 1876 by the Rev. Richard Taylor, surrogate and official patron L.-U;GRIGG with the hamlet of Mealrigg form I of Christ church, Allonby. Lord Leconfield is lord of township in the parish of Bromfield, 6~ miles south the manor and principal landowner. The soil is variable, west fr()m Wigton, 3~ nor~east from Aspatria, and I but of a fertile nature; subsoil, clay. The chief crops south-west from Bromfield parish church. The soil is are "heat, oats and green crop. The area. is 3,027 clay and there are &eve·ral well-built farmhouses. Lanig ucres; rateable value, £5,°78; the population in 1891 rigg Ha.ll i8 the property and occa,sional residence of was 384 in the to" nship, and 1,555 in the parish. Joseph Bowerbank esq. Who is the principal landowner. Crookdake ill a scattered hamlet, I' miles soutb Mealrigg, a small hamlet consisting of seven fanm, past from the church, with a. station at Leegatc, on in St. :M.atthew's, West Newton district, is 3 miles the Maryport and Carlisle railway, and S~ west from west from Bromfield parish church. The soil is cIa:" W'lgton. Crookdake Hall is an ancient Border strong and 1000my; crops of the usual kind. The area is 1,984 hold, now used as a farmhouse. In the time of Edwa.rd acres; rateable value, £2,569; the population in. 1891 I. It was the residence of Adam of Crookdake, who was 278. died in 1304, as appears from the inscription on his tomb in the Crookdake chapel in Bromfield church. Post Office, Langrigg.-Joseph Jefferson, sub-post Scales, another hamlet of dispersed houses, called master. Letters from Aspatria R.S.. O. arrive at 11.5 High and Low Scales, I mile 80uth of the church. a.m. & are dispatched at 4.20 p.m. Postal orders Parish Clerk and Sexton, Thomas Steele. are issued here, but not paid. Aspatria. is the nearest Bromfield St'ation, George Thorburn, sta.tion master money order & telegraph office Wall Letter Boxes.-Blencogo, deared at I.45 p.m.; BLE...... CDGO is a small village and township, pleasantly Bromfie:d, cleared at 4 p.m. &; Waverbridge, cleared seated iru t'he parish of Bromfield, I~ miles north-east from its parish church, 2 from Bromfield station, and at 2.50 p.m J~ from Leegate station on the Maryport and Carlisle Schools. lailway, and 4 west from Wigton. The inhabitants are Endowed Grammar School, Bromfield, founded by will, cngaged in agricultural pursuits. Mrs. George Reay 7th Ma)·, in the year 1612, by Richard Osmotherley, i~ lady of the manor. mercer, of London, &; a native of this place, for 15 Leegate is a small hamlet with a station on the ~1ar) poor children from Langrigg &; Bromfield; the en par t and Car:isle railway, si miles from Wigton, d dowmc:Jts, consisting of about seven aores of land, from Aspatria and 2 from Blencogo. The area is 1,718 rents, annual payments, &, investments, arising from 3,.Cres; rateable value, £2,162; the population in 1891 Thomas Thomlinson's charity, given by will in 17gB, was I Bo. nuw amount to £4.1 108. yearly, &; there is a home Railway Station, Robut La" son, station master for the master; the school will hold 80 children, k has a full attendance: it is now worked under a new Dundraw is a village, and, with Kelsick, forms a scheme of the CLarity Commissioners; Matthew H. township in the parish of Bromfield, 3 miles west h~m Sowerby, master Wigton, the nearest railway station. The towmhip in Waverbridge, buLt in 1844, by the late Charles Ray esq. c~udes the small village!! and hamlets of Keltwick or of 'Wig-ton, for 50 children; average attendance, 43; Kelsick, 4 miles west-b)-north; Moor Row, 3 west; John :Kixon, master Wheyrigg, 4 west, and '\Vaverbridge, 2 west of Wigton. Blencogo (mixed & infants), built in 1859 by G. Dixon Sir ~1usg-ra.ve Horton Brisco bart. of Crofton Hall, is esq. &; endowed in that year by deed &, in 1860 by lord of the manor, and holds a court annually at \Vhe)' will with £1,078 in consols, producing a.bout £28 per rigg. Sir M. H. Brisco bart. Mr. John Barues and annum; the school will hold 80 children, average the trustees of the late Joseph ~elson esq. of ~oor attendance, 49; Mis" Elizabeth Hodgson, mi!lt·resll

BRO~IFIELD. Thorburn George, station master Brough Martha (Mis8), Spread Eagle (Letters through .Aspatria R. 8.0.) Thorbum John, fanner, Scales inn, Waverbridge Bruugh Miss. Gill Moorend Todd Ann (Mrs.), faImer, 1\hreside Brown John, farmer, Moor row l'earson Thowll s Waite '\Villiam, farmer, Crookdake Carrick John, farmer, Wheyrigg Taylor Rev. Richd. Bromfield vicarage Warwick" illiam, blacksmith, Scal!'s Dixon William Mather (exors. of), farmer, '1\1001' row COMMKRCIAL,. BLENCOGO. C'rraham Daniei, flllI'mer, Kelsick .Asbridge Edward, farmer, Crookdake (Letters through Wigton.) Hodgson William, falmer '.J J h f ~ al A J (M) -'- k Johnson Crtorge Wilson, farmer ASbl'lllge osep, armer, ,,-,c es rmstrong ane rll., MlOP eeper J ff Will' f K 1 . k Bell Betty (~Irs.), farmer & miller Asbridge J oseph, farmer e e:son lam, anner, e SIC. t ):K mill B H' .. G. il J enmngs Obarles, farmer, Wheyngg (wa er , ~ ew arnes dTTISon, ]omer, reenngg v Littleton Elizabeth (Mrs.) fa.rmer Bell Matthew, joiner, Scales Bowman Jos. farmer, Orookl8l1ds. .'. '1 Th f C l' 1 ....'ill· G Bb k Ma.ttIDson Johnson,]olll1'.Ws'Venbndge Beu omas, armer ar IS e" lam eor~e, oe ma er 'I J h D' H PH .. ill' C ulth d J CM f ., essenger Oi!ep, lan ouse .. Benson Thomas, farmer "'" m er, 0 ar ane rs., armer 1\100 Crookdake Crosthwaite Wm. faTmer, Seymour ho ~ixon rJ~: school mast.Waverbridge Brockbank In. Ellwood,faTIllr.Heathfld Donald Wm. farmer, Leegate housp,.~ J h' f M BhP t . f b 'ld .. G \Villi f & ..... orman 0 n, armer O

J ohnson ThoSi. Wellington inn, Scales (Letters through Wigton.) COMM.ERCIAL. Messenger Jonatban, farmer, Scales Pearson Waiter, The Lime. Middleton WilliBm, shopkeeper, Scales Wood Nathan, Moor TOW .A.mott J eremia.h, blacksmith Park John, fanner, Low row Baxter John, fanner Pattinson John, farmer COMMERCIAL. Benn John Jefferllon, gardm. Greenab PonsonlJy Peter, farmer, Crookdake Armstron~ Geo:rge, blacksmIth, agri- nowness William, shopkeeper Robinson John, fanner, Low row cultural implement maker & bicy~le BI'ough John, farmer, Beech bill Routledge George, farmer, The Gill agent, Waverbridge Cockton Nixon, shoe maker Scaife John, farmer, Crookdake .A.sbridge Isaae, farmer, Wheyrigg Elliot John, farmer, Oapperl! ~harp William, farmer, Scales Bames John, fanner, Kelsick FergTIlIOD J()hn, farmer Bames Mary (Mrs.), farmer &, miller Bethering-ton .Amos, farmer Sowerbv• Matthew H. school master Rteele ThoIDu, parish clerk (water), Waverbndge Betherin~n Robert, farmer Stockdale .Albert, farmer Bateman Tbomal!, farmer, Dum hoWJe 11"Ving Fr8l1cis, blacksmith