DIRECTORY. J . BROUGHTON. 57 Endowed Grammar School, Bromfield, founded by will, average attendance of 89 ; it is now worked under a 7th May, in the year 1612, by Richard Osmotherley, new scheme of the Charity Commissioners ; J obn mercer, of London, & a native of this place, for 15 N an son, master poor children from Langrigg & Bromfield; the endow­ ments, consisting of about seven acres of laud, rents, Blencogo (mixed & infants), built in 1859 by G. Dixoa annual payments & investments, arising from Thomas esq. & endowed in that year by deed & in 186o by Thomlinson's charity, given by will in 1798, now will with £1,078 in Consols, producing about {,28 per amount to £45 IOS. yearly, & there is a house for the annum; the school will hold 8o children; average master; the school will bold 108 children, & has an "' attendance, 37 ; Miss J ana Crosthwaite, mistress BROMFIELD. Mashiter John, farmer, Scales Booker The Misses, Langrigg hall (Letters through Brayton.) Mashiter William, farmer, Scales Irving Twentyman Middleton William, shopkeepr. Scales COMMERCIAL. Brough Joseph, Gill Moorend Olipbant Thomas, farmer, Croft house Nanson John Park John, farmer, Low row Bell Daniel, farmer Pearson Thomas, Bank house Pattinson John, farmer Bell Emma. (Miss), dress maker Pickering Mrs. Thomas, The Gill Robinson John, farmer, Low row Bowness John, farmer Taylor Rev. Canon Richard (vicar, & Routledge George, farmer, The Gill Bowness William, shopkeeper surrogate), Bromfield vicarage Sail Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Sandraw Brough John, farmer, Beech hill COMMERCIAL. Scaife John, farmer, Crookdake Cass Thomas, blacksmith; & Scales A.rmstrong Rt. farmr. Crookdake hall Stockdale J ames, farmer Cockton Nixon, shoe maker Asbridgl:l Edward, farmer, Crookdake Todd John, farmer, Me reside Elliot John, farmer, Clappers Asbridge Jsph. Barnes, farmr. Scales Warwick William, fanner, Scales Foster William, farmer Ashbridge John, farmer, Crookdake Jefferson Joseph, farmer, Home farm Atkinson Richard, farmer, Sandraw BLENCOGO. Jefferson Joseph, farmer, Low Faulds Bell Matthew, joiner, Scales Jefferson Joseph Scott, farmer Benson Thomas, miller, Crookdake (Letters through Wigton.) Je:fferson Wm. Coach & Horses P.H Brockbank Jn.Ellwood,frmr. Heathftd COMMERCIAL. Litt William, farmer, Greenah villa Brough Pattinson, farmer & builder, Armstrong Thomas Mounsey,New inn Modlin Robert, farmer Orookdake Barnes Harrison,cowkpr.Greenrigg vil Reay Tom, joiner & wheelwright Carrick Joseph, farmer, Scales Bowman Jos. sen. farmer, Crooklands Scott Francis, farmer Cass Jonathan, stone mason, Scales Bowman Joseph, jun. farmer Stalker Jonathan, frmr. Greenah hall Case Thomas, blacksmith, Scales & Bowness Robert, farmer, Beck Thirlwall Isaac, farmer, Whin bank Langrigg Coates J onathan, tailor & draper Tyson Edward & Fisher, farmers, Crosthwaite James, station master. Gilbartson Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Pow-Motey farm , Leegate Hodgson William, farmer Dixon John, jun.parish clerk & sexton Hope John, farmer, Leegate house MEAI.RIGG. Eelbeck Joseph, farmer The Firs, Hope William Henry, farmer Crookdake ' Mann John, blacksmith & farmer COMMERCIAL • Poster Thomas, coal dealer Pearson Wm. C. farmer, Thornby end .A.rmstrong John. fal"D)ei- Gardhouse Thom-as, frmr. Crookdake Sisson William, farmer, Seymour ho Bell W illiam, farmer Graham George, farmr. Mansba.ll hall Thompson Joseph Clark, farmer Elliott Thomas, farmer Hunter John, farmer, New mill Timpron John Martindale, farmer Gibson Robert, farmer Jardine James, Greyhound inn Wilson John, farmer, Blencogo house Hall J oseph, farmer Johnston William, farmer, Scales Wood Thomas, farmer, Beech house Hetherington Thomas, farmer Lattimer John, poultry farmr. Scales Marshall Graham, farmer Little Mary Jane (Mrs.), Wellington LANGRIGG. Miller Richard, farmer inn, Seales Barnes Mrs. Bank Murray George, farmer :BROUIGIHTON is a parish and village, pleasantly population of the ecclesiastical parish of Great Brough· seated above the Derwent and 1! miles north from ton in IQOI was 2,260. Broughton Cross station on the , Keswick The Craggs, the residence of Col. Edward Blackett and Penrith and London and North Western railway, 3 R.A.. is delightfully situated on an eminence in its own miles west-by-north of Cockermouth. By Local Govern- grounds of about 30 acres, and commands charming ment Board Order No. 38,315, 1st Oct. 18g8, parts of views of the surrounding country. Great and Little Broughton townships were formed into RIBTON is a township, 5 miles west of Cockermouth. two new civil parishes called Broughton and Broughton Th~ nearest railway station is at Camerton, half a mile Moor; the latter will be found under a separate head- distant, on the London and North Western railway. ing. Great Broughton was formed inro an ecclesiastical Ribton Hall, on the north bank of the rivet' Derwent, parish, Sept. 15, 1863, from parish, and is and now occupied by Mr. John Sewell as a farm house, in the Cockermouth division of the county, ward was the property at a very early period of a family of .A.llerdale-below-Derwent, Derwent petty sessional who had adoptPd the name of "De Ribton," and con· division, Cockermouth union, county court district tinned to be held by their descendants until the estate of Cockennouth and Workington, rural deanery was purchased in the early part of the 17th century by of Maryport and archdeaconry and diocese of Thomas Lamplugh esq. who was knighted by James I. Carlisle. Christ Church, erected in t856, is a small in 1615; the existing house was erected by his sue­ building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, west porch cessor, Richard Lamplugh esq. during the reign of and a small turret containing one bell: there are 2so Charles II. and is a large rectan~ular structure of three aittings. The register dates from the year 1863. The storeys, in the Renaissance style, and the masonry of living- is a vicarage, net yearly value {,2oo, with re,i- the principal front is worked in channelled courses and deuce, in the gift of the vicar of Bridekirk, and held further relieved by string cornices between the tiers of aince 1878 by the Rev. Robert Clarke, of St. Aidans windows; on the ~round floor the architraves of the Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1846, a Baptist windows are straight, Lut those of the first floor carry chapel, erected in 1672, a Primitive Methodist chapel, aln a segmental pediment; th1-1 principal entrance, a and a meeting house for the Society of Friends, square doorway, opens into an entrance ball containing built in 1659. The Mission Hall, erected here in 1882 a good stone chimney piece; the former dining hall is at the sole cost of the late R. Wilson esq. J.P. of The lined to a height of four 1eet with chestnut panelling, Gran~e. is a stone building in the Gothic style, and. and the principal doors in the house are of the same will seat 250 persons. An Almshouse was founded here material ; a wide oaken staircase, with balustraded rail, in 1722, and endowed with £8 per annum, by Mr. lead!! to the upper floors; the whole of the windows Joseph .A.shley, for four poor women. Ashley's School are framed in stone. "Ribton House is also a farmhouse, and Hospital Charity consists of 4 actes of land and occupied by Mr. Curwen Watson. In this township, on £2~ a year arising from rent charges; these, together the north bank of the Derwent, is the site of an ancient with Elizabeth Leathe's charity of £7o in Consols. pro- chapel dedicatPd to St. Lawrence. The Earl of Lons­ dnce unitedly about £26 xos. per annum. Lord Whar- dale is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The area ton's charity, left by Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, who is 6o4 aCl·es of land and 9 of water ; rateable value, died in 1695, provides Bibles for distribution in the dis- [,8o2; the population in 1901 was 12. trict. Lord Leconfield is lord of fhe manor. The trus- Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Great Broughton. James tees of the late John Mackintosh-Walker esq. J.P. (d. Lister, sub-postmaster. Letters through Cockermouth 1907), and Isaac Sibson esq. are the principal land- arriveat8a..m.&6p.m.; dispatcheda.t7.2oa.m.&5.20 01rllel"s. The soil is limey; subsoil, stone. The chief p.m. Telegraph office open on sundays from 9 to :to a.m crops are oats and turnips, and some land in pasture. Wall Letter Boxes.-Little Broughton, cleared at 5 p.m. The are"' is 1,342 acres of land and IB of water; rateable week days only & Brigham Station, cleared 7.40 a.m. value, £5,029; ~be population in 1901 was 1,334· The & 5.40 p.m.; sundays, 5.30 p.m