LANGDALE GR~AT} DIRECTORY.] \VESTlJI0RLAND. { AND LITTLE. 97 gypsum quarries in the parish. In the village is a I Post, M. O. 'k T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. frephold estate called" The Spital," and said to have & I. Office.-William Bland, sub-postmaster. Letters belongP'd to llome hospital or religious house. The Earl through Penrith arrive at 7.50 a.m.; dispatched at of Lon.dale, who is lord of the manor; John Crosby 6.50 p.m.; sundays, 4.20 p.m.; open on sundays esq. Montague Hughes Crackanthorpe esq. K.C., D.C.L.! from 8 to lL) a.m. for sale of stamps & telegraph of. Newbiggin Hall, James Morton :Kicholson and R. T. I bll~iness . Nlcholson esqrs. and the trustees of the late Thomas PublIc Elementary School (mIxed), built in 1873 & since Westmorland are the chief landowners. The soil is twice enlarged at a total cost of £350; will hold 160 loamy; subsoil, gravelly. The chief crops D'e uatll children; average attendance, II2; Thomas Edward and turnips, but the land is d:idly in past:ll ,'. Th:, Etch ~'lIs, master; Miss J ane Turnbull, mistress; Miss area is 2,496 acres of land and 7 of \VdLer; ratdl.Lr~ Annie .Alderson, Miss M. H. Lcwis & John J ackson value, £.P43; the population in 1901 was 427. Growther, assistants Railway Station, R. G. MalIabar, station master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cowper J O,~:l, joiner &. hrmer Parish Room (J. ,M. Nicholson, sec) Crosby John, Prospect house Crosby John, farmer, Mt. Pleasant Pattinson & Winter,farmers & millers Crosby Mrs. Greenwell home Eggleston William, pork butcher (water) Curwen Rev. Alexander J o:hn Goldie Ellwood Frances (Miss), shopkeeper Reading Room (Wm. Fallowfield, sec) B.D., J.P. (rector), Rectory Ellwood Tom, blacksmith Richardson Frank, cycle agent Dixon Mu Fallowfield William, grocer, insurance Richar&on J n. thrashng.macho o\\'ner Etchells Thomas Edward agent & collector & assessor of in­ Ric'hardson Joseph, farmer Kendal Mrs. Town head come tax Robinson & Co. Limited, gypsum Metcalf John, Rose bank Foresters' Hall (John Hunter, sec) quarry owners Nicholson James Morlon, A'shton lea Gill Mary Elizabeth (Miss), shopkpr Simpson John, farmer, ,Stamp hill Pryde Andrew, Victoria place Graham Pattinson,frmr. Sleaston how Sinton Henry,farmer & manure mer- Richardson Mrs. Town end Graham Thos.frmr.Kirkby Thore hall chant & assistant overseer Watson Mrs. South view Grisdale John Bird, farmer, Spitals Spottiswood James, temperance hotel Hunter John & William, farmers, Stockdale Henry, farmer, Eden view COMMERCIAL. Low Abbey farm Story John, farmer, Hale house Allonby William, farmer,Churchgates Hunter John, butcher Thwaites Wm.Edwd.farmer,Street ho

Atkinson Joseph, joiner L3mbert James, farmer, cattle dealer Veitch Henrv,• horse breaker Atkinson Wm.tailor & woollen draper & landowner Wetherall William, Bridge End inn lIellas Joseph, farmer, Rectory farm Lancaster Thomas, boot ma'ker Winskill Barbara (~l's.), HOr5e & lIland William, agricultural & insur- McGhie Thomas, gy,psum quarry Farrier P.H. Low moor ance agent, Post office owner & plaster works owner,Pott's Woof Thomas, draper Eurne Thomas, farmer, Hale field well LANGDALE GREAT AND LITTLE, with the again discharged at the foot of the lake and joins the hamlet of , ('onstitllte the civil parish of Rothay a little above Windermere. In Little Langdale. Langdales, which, with parts of Grasmere, was formed on the upper Brathay, is the fine double cascade called into an ecclesiastical parish 15 Sept. 1863, and is 6 Colwith Force; some distance above it is Little Langdale miles north from Coniston Lake station on the Furness tarn, and about a mile further north is Blea tarn, the railway, 9 north-west from Windermere terminal station source of the Bleak Moss beck. Skelwith Force, another­ on the London and North Western railway, 5 north-west waterfall on the Lower Brathay, is best seen from the from and 6 north from , in the adjacent fell, a little below , over which Northern division of the county, Kendal ward and union, passes the road from Grasmere to Hawkshead. Some petty sessional division of Ambleside, county court dis­ of the mountains here yield an abundance of fine green trict of Ambleside, rural deanery of Ambleside, arch­ slate. Elterwater Hall is the residence of Lt. -Col. John deaconry of Westmorland and diocese of . The Robinson J.P. The Earl of Lonsdale and Lord Mun­ church of the Holy Trinity is a building of stone in the caster are lords of the manor. The principal landowner~ Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aislus, south are Miss Harrison, Lt. -Col. John Robinson and Frank porch and an embattled western tower containing a ~aude TaylorJones-Balme esq. of Ambleside. The soil is­ clock and 6 bells: the organ was presented in 1891 as a sandy; subsoil, rock and g-ravel. The land is principally memorial to two ladies: in the chancel are two memorial in pasture. The area of the civil parish of Langdales is: windows, inserted in r888 to John Robinson esq. of 9.36r acres of land and 147 of water; rateable value. EIterwater, and on the south side are t'l'>O others to £3.316; the population in 1901 was civil parish 846-,. Edward Balme Wheatley Balme, who died Oct. 28th, ecclesiastical parish 866. 1896: there are also .two carved oak sanctuary chairs Chapel Stile is a hamlet adjoining . and a fine altar screen: the church affords 350 sitting-so Sexton, John Collimon, Chapel Stile. The register dates from the year 1828. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £195, with residence, in the Post & M. O. 0., S. B. k A. & I. Office, Chapel Stile.­ gift of the rector of Grasmere, and held since 1905 by J ames M. Thompson, sub-postmaster. Letters through ~ the Rev. John Magee Tredennick ~LA. of Trinity College, Ambleside arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. Dublin. Here is a chapel of ease, Little Langdale, which callers 4.10 p.m.; no delivery on sundays used to be used for school purposes during the week Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., E. D., P. P. &; from 1872-19°5, when the new school building was A. & T. Office, Elterwater.-Postlethwaite Rawes, sub­ opened in Sept. 1905; the chapel is now used postmaster. Letters through Ambleside arrive at 7·45 for public worship only. At Great Langdale is a' a.m.; dispatched at 5.15 p.m. week days only small meeting room for Dissenters. At Elterwater, Wall Letter Box, Little Langdale, cleared at 4.40 p.m. picturesquely situated among fir plantations, is a gun- week days only powder mill belonging to the Elterwater Gunpowder VOLL"NTEERS. Company Limited, and giving employment to nearly 80 2nd Westmoreland Volunteer Battalion Border Regiment hands; here are also two green slate quarries. The (I Co.), Elterwater & Grasmere; Capt. E. Bousfield; Langdale Institute, founded in 1891, has a well-appointed Color-Sergt. George Bailey, drill instructor billiard room, a reading room supplied with all the principal newspapers and periodicals, and a small library Public Elementary Schools. of 420 volumes; visitors are admitted on payment of Id. Endowed (mixed), endowed by will in 1852 &, deed in per visit; the institute is managed by a committee of 1857, with £1,087 in Consols, by the late John Braith- 12 members. The Busk rent-charge of Ss. the Bridge waite, & with £500 by the late John Robinson; the End Estate charity of £n, I7s. and Brockbank, Sawrey yearly income is now (1906) £45; the school will hold and Wasdales charities, together £1 lIS. yearly, are all 150 children; average attendance, 128; Thos. Fisher, for distribution in money. master; Miss Martha M. Fisher, mistress; Miss M. Elterwater lake or tarn, to the south of the hamlet of Bowness, assistant mistress that name, is half a mile in length and a quarter of a Little Langdale (mixed), opened in 1873, but now in a mile wide; it is fed on the north by the Great Langdale new building erected in 1905, for 100 children; average beck, and on the south receives the Brathay, 'Which is attendance, 62; James Tuson, master Tredennick Rev. John Magee M.A. Bird Isaac, farmer, Thrang GREAT LANGDALE. Vicarage, Chapel Stile Birkett Thomas M. farmer, Side how Collinson William, Gra!!sings COMXERCIAL. I Bowness John, White Lion hotel, & Thompson Mrs. Walthwaite Allonby John A. farmer, Baysbrown farmer, Chapel Stile WE~T~IORLAND -•