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ThDrumburgh C<:mncil School, £6 18s. 8d. dale, who is lord of the manor, John Backhouse esq. Bowness School, £ I Ss. 8d.Bowness Anthorn School, R. K. Whitehead esq. of Pendlebury, Manchester, and £1 Ss. 8d. and Fingland School, £1 Ss. 8d. Troutbeck's Henry Dugdale esq. of Sebergham, are the principal charity com;ists of 7 acres, 34 pI. of land, now (1906) landowner!!. producing £12 yearly, whcich sum is distributed in Public Elementary School, Anthorn (mixed), built in 1875 money to the poor. At BGwness was the western for 90 children; average attendance, 31. This school terminal statiGn Gf the RGmal1J wall; it contained an receives £1 Ss. 8d. yearly from Pattinson'!! charity; area of 5~ acres, the greater axis being from east to Miss Mary Marshall, mistress west, but the exact line Gf its ramparts can now only be made out with difficulty, although the western boundary CARDURNOCK is a hamlet, 5 miles south-by-ea:lt is fairly distinct; the northern wall rose above the from Bowness. ridge of land next the shore, and an ancient mound called the "Ram,pire," marks i~ eastern end. Horsley LONGCROFT is a hamlet, 4! miles south-by-west reganied this as Turmocelurn, but the Rev. J. Maughan, from Bowness. roctor of Bewcastle, for etymological reaSGns, conj ectured it to have been the station Virosidum. An inscribed DRUMBURGH is a village, 4 miles south-east-by-east altar, A.D. 252-4, and a tablet of the 3rd Cohort of the from Bowness, and has a station on the North Britisb rmd (Augustan) Legion are built into walls in the railway, from which a horse tramway, conveying pas town. In April, 1884, Mr. Will"!, a farmer, of Bowness, sengers, runs to Glasson and Port Carlisle. Here is the while walking along the road between Bowness and site of a Roman station, which HorsIey identified with Whitrigg, picked up 22 silver coins, of the reign of the Gabrosentum of the "Notitia;" it is the smallest Edward I. and Alex. Ill. of Scotland, supposed to have station on the line of the wall, having an area Gf only i dropped from a cart laden with sand and gravel from of an acre. In July, 1859, a fragment of stone wag the sea-beach. In 1903, a digger engaged in digging found here, with an apparently incomplete inscription. peat at Bowness Flow, discovered an ancient palisading The Rev. John Maughan, rector of Bewcastle, suggested formed of small piles of various kinds of wood set this as the site of the station Olenacum, and by as close together and driven about a foot into the under sociating the stone with another fragment built into the lying sand, and the remaining 2 feet of their length was .all, producing a reading which would record the per embedded in the peat, which rose to a height of 5 formance of a vow by the 7th or Aurelian cohort of feet above their tops: similar piles have also been infantry. The Earl of Lonsdale is lord Gf the manor and found in other parts of the moss. The Earl of Lonsdale principal landowner. is lord of the manor, and Messrs. I. and S. Burns-Lindow, of Ehen Hall, Cleator, Cumberland, and the rector are Post Office.-Thomas Foster, sub-postmaster. Letter:! the principal landowners. The soil in some parts is very arrive from Carlisle, via Burgh-by-Sands, at 7.20 a.m. fertile; in others moorish and barren; the low and flu t &, are dispatched at 3-40 p.m.; no delivery on sundays. grounds have a heavy white maThhy soil, whilst the Bowness is the nearest money order office j telegraph higher parts are cbUefly a mixture of reddish clay and office at Drumburgh railway station gravel; chief crops, oats, barley and green crop. The Wall Letter Box in village cleared at 3.30 p.m. daily, area is 11 ,437 acres of land, 2 of wa.ter, 1,043 of tidal sundays excepted water, and 9,743 of foreshore; rateable value, £8,824; Drumburgh Public Elementary School (mixed &; in the population in 1901 was 1,079. fants), built in 1834 &, rebuilt in 1859 for IIS children; Parish Clerk, John Wood. • average attendance, 63. This school receives a sum of £6 18s. 8d. from Pattinson's charity, which is devoted Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. ~., E. D., P. P. &, to a scholarship; Joseph Waite, master A. & 1. Office.-John Topping Stafford, sub-postmaster. North British Railway Station.-Thomas Foster, station Letters arrive from Carlisle at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched master 3-45 p.m.; no delivery on sundays Wall Letter Box at Bowness Railway station, cleared at EASTON is a hamlet, 5 miles east-s{JUth-east from 6.50 p.m. daily, sundays excepted Bowness. The Roman wall is believed to have passed' Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1877 for 120 through this hamlet. childrPn; average attendance, 71; the school is en Wall Letter Box cleared at 2.45 p.m dowed as above stated; Thoma.s Atkinson, master Wall Letter Box, Easton district, cleared 3.45 p.m. Solway Junction Railway Station, Alexander Thorburn, daily, sundays excepted station master GLASSON is a hamlet with a small station on the PORT CARLISLE, I mile suuth-east from Bownes'S, tramway of the North British Railway Company, froIn has a terminal station on a single tram line from Drum Drumburgh to Port Carlisle, at which train stops only burgh station, on the North British railway; passengers when required. The hamlet is 3 miles south-east of are conveyed in a tram car, drawn by horse-power. The Bowness, and 2 south-east from Port Carlisle. There i!l trade of this port, which once promised to become a a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1844, and seating place of importance, has from various causes been trans 100 persons. fened to Silloth. Here is a Wesleyan chapel built in Wall Letter Box cleared at 3.20 p.m. week days only IB61 and seating 150 persons. The locality is traversed by the Roman wall, the course of whic.h however, is at FINGLAND is a village,s miles sO'llth-south-east from this point now hardly traceable; here also is a barrow Bowness. The Earl of Lonsdale is lord of the manor. called" Fisher's Cross," and to the west another, known and Messrs. Lindow, of Cleator, Cumberland, are the as "Knock's Cross," and in the village stands a fragment principal landowners. of a Roman altar. Public Elementary School, for 100 children; average Post Office. John Greenwocd, sub-postma.ster. Letters attendance, 35; Miss Mary Tellford, mistress arrive from Carlisle, via Kirkbride at 8 a. m.; dis patched at 4. IQ p.m.; no delivery on sundays', Bow WHITRIGG is a hamlet near to the hanks of the ness is the nearest money order & telegraph office, I Wampool, and a. lItation on the Solway Junction railway. mile distant Railway Station, Whitrigg, James Linton, station maste-r BOWNESS. Lawson Robert, North Grove 'Welsh Mrs Rolmes John, IIighfield house Liddle William Wilkinson J oseph Irving John Lawson Lindow Rev. Samuel M.A. Rectory COMMERCIAL. Lawson Mu Negus Mrs Arnison Christopher, tailor
