112 MORLAND. WESTMORLAND. The children of this place attend the schools at Sleagill Messrs. T. Thw~ytes, John Baldwin, T. Geldart, John or Little Strickland Wharton and Joseph Farrer. The principal crops are Sleagill, in the parish of Morland, is a township and hay and corn. The land is cla.yey, with 8 8ubsoil of small village lying iD. a valley, 2~ miles south from Mor- clay, lime and freestone. The area is 1,384 acres; land. Robinson's charity of £8, derived from 10 acres rateable value. £883; population in 1891, 122. of land, is for distribution in money at Christmas; there Letters through Shap RS.O. arrive at 8 a. m. Morland is is also the interest on £300 left by the late Miss Braith- the nearest money order & telegraph office. PILLAR waite : the gift of Philip, 4th baron Wharton, in 1692, LETTER Box cleared at 11.45 a.m provides 5 bibles and prayer books for distribution Il.mong the children of this township. The township School, Sleagill (mixed), built in 1858 & endowed with contains a thin seam of cClal. The manor, which once be- £5 a year derived from land & £8 from the endow~ longed to a family of its own name, is now in the posses- ment left by the late Miss Braithwaite; it will hold .ion of the Earl of Lonsdale. The chief landowners are 45 children; average attendance,24; Mary Geldart,mist Morland. Burrow John R. farmer Dent Richard, yeoman Coulthart Miss, Akeygate Campooll Jonathan, farmer Docker (Mrs.) & Son, farmers Dixon Thomas Chester John, farmer Douthwaite Thomas, farmer & baker Fothergill Miss, Broadfleld Dent George, farmer EgglestoneJonathan,farmer,&carrier Knight Rev. Joseph [vicar] Dent Robert John, yeoman Ewin Robert, farmer, & post office Markham Major Francis J.P., D.L Eggleson Robert, farmer Ewin William, farmer Sanderson Thomas Foster John George, farmer Irving Robert, stone mason Thompson Charles .l.P Hadwin William & Miles, farmers Jackson John, grocer &c Holmes Robert, farmer J ervis Frederick, grocer & tailor COMMUCU,L. Morland Thomas, farmer Nicholson William, boot maker Atkinson Thomas, farmer Oldcorn William, farmer Nixon Joseph, farmer Balmer Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper Pallister George, farmer Powley Brothers, farmers Bellas Joseph, grocer, & post office Parker Robert, farmer Ril!hardson Henry, farmer Black John, grocer &e Pigney Nicholas, blacksmith Simpson Robert, farmer Blackstock Rd. frmr. Greengill bank Powley William, farmer Slee John, farmer & joiner Byers lsaac, farmer Richardson Mrs. farmer Starry J onathan, farmer Byers John, farmer & carrier Robinson John, farmer Veach John, farmer Chester Matthew, farmer Sewell William, farmer Wilkinson Henry, farmer Ellis George, Crown P.H. & farmer Stephenson Christopher. farmer Winter John, yeoman Foster James H. grocer &c Swainson William, farmer Hayhurst Gilbt.frmr.& miller(water) Teasdale W illiam, farmer Sleagill. Hodgson David, farmer Thompson WilliaJl!, farmer Crabtree Archibald Hodgson Solomon, joiner Tomlinson George & Nathan,farmers Irving Thomas Huntington Joseph, farmer, Lowfleld Walker John, White Horse P.H Parkin Miss Ion Michael, farmer WilsonGeorge & Isabella(Mrs.),frmrs COMMBRCIAL. Matthews William, farmer AlIen Christopher, farmer Moses Thomas, farmer Newby. Atkinson Anthony B. farmer Pallister J oseph, farmer Betham John J.P. Towcott Buck John, farmer Robinson Ann (Mrs.),frmr.Lavergate Camplin Miss Dobson Margaret (Mrs.), farmer Robinson John, farmer, Gatelands Crankshaw William B Dobson Thomas, farmer Stephen J n. Stephen, surgn.The Hall Nesbit Mrs Dodd Joseph, farmer StoddartMary(Mrs.),King's Arms P.H Robinson Mrs Farrer J oseph, joiner &c Tay10r William, farmer, Greengill COMMERCIAL. Fothergill J oseph, farmer Thompson J oseph, joiner, Lowergate Addison Thomas Geldart Thomas, yeoman Twer Edwll.rd, farmer, Hall Armstrong John Hodgson William, farmer Winter William, farmer & butcher Atkinson William Irving John, stonemason Bird George, farmer McCune James, Royal Oak P.H King's Meaburn. Bulman Joseph. farmer Parker John, farmer COMMERCIAL. Byers Robert, yeoman Swainson Henry, yeoman Atkinson John, farmer Camplin (Mrs.) & Son, farmers Swainson Joseph, fanner Atkinson William, farmer Dent George, yeoman Watson Thomas, farmer Bird Joseph, farmer Dent Henry, yeoman Wharton John, yeoman MURTON-WITH-HILTON, both villages and Castle from the reign of Edw. n. there are now no re­ townships in the civil parish of St. Michael, Bongate, mains; this family held the manor until 1625. High Appleby, were formed into an ecclesiastical parish, 12 Cup Ghyll, by Mill·ton Pike, is a well-known pass J"une, 1863; the village of Murton is pleasantly situated traversed by tourists from Durham. Lord Hothfield is -at the foot of 8 lofty conical mountain known as Murton lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the Pike, and is 3 miles east from Appleby stations on the Earl of Lonsdale, L<>rd Grantley and John Shepherd esq. Midland and North Eastern railways and 3! miles west- of Portobello, Edinburgh. The soil is of 3 light sandy by-north from the town of Appleby, in the Northern nature; subsoil, clay and rock. The chief crops are pll3. division of the county, East ward, petty sessional divi- tare and oats. The area of the township is 5,750 acres ; sion and union of the East ward, county court district of rateable value, £1,328; the population in 1891 was Appleby, rural deanery of Appleby and Kirkby Stephen township II7 and ecclesiastical parish, 298. and archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle. The church Parish CIerk, John Shepherd. 'Of St. John the Baptist, built about 1855 and opened in POST OFFICE.-Joseph Hall, sub-polttmaster. Letters June, 1856, is an edifice of stone in the Gothic style, through Appleby, which is the nearest money order & eonsisting of chancel and nave, under 1\ single roof, south te 1egra phill·0 ce, arrive at 8.30 a. m., mon..10"'0j a.m.., porch and a western belfry containing one bell: there dispatehed at 3.30 p.m. week days only are 130 sittings. The register dates from the year 186]. 'l'hwaites' School, founded in 1827 & rebuilt in 1875, is The living is 8. vicarage, tithe rent-charge £27, gross endowed with 9A• 2&. land, now (1894) producing £IS .rearly value £210, with residence, in the gift of the 5s. a year, & 110 rent-charge of IOS. j the school will Bishop of Carlisle, and held since 1881 by the Rev. hold 80 children; average attendance, 44; George Samuel Blake Burrell M.A. of St. Peter's College, Cam- Lancaster, master bridge. Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in CARRIER TO ApPLEBY.-James Lindsay, sat the early part of the century, with '100 sittings, and a Free Methodist chapel, erected in 1841, with 105 sittings. Hilton is a. village and township in Bongate parish, In the township are lead mines, worked by the Scordale at the foot of Romn Fell, 4 miles east from Appleby. Mining Syndicate. Murton Hall, the ancient manor There was formerly a. chapel here, but of this no vestige house and now occupied as a. farmhouse, still retains now remains. In the township are some rich lead mines some portions of Elizabethan date, but of the earlier worked by the Scordale Lead Mining Syndicate. The structure, which belonged to the Musgraves of Hartley moors above Hilton furnish extensive grouse shooting;