110 ORTON. WEST~10RLAND. [ KELLY'S
Ha;rt,llLittle Strickland, Tebay, Thornship, Thrimby, memorate the accession of Queen Victoria, 20th June, 1837. Whale, Low Winder &; Yanwath Scut Green is a place about 2' miles south-east of Shap S~ Endowed School (mixed), originally founded in 1730 by Wells and miles west from Orton.. !'!ubscription & rebuilt in 1808-9 at El. cost of £210, An prnnibus to meet the mid-day trains, both Ilorth chiefly defrayed by the late Miss Margaret Holme, of and south, runs every day during the summer mont~ Orton, & Messrs. Joseph Burn & Williarn Holm~; to the nearest station at Shap; or conveyances can be it was subsequently endowoo by the late Agnes Holme, had at any time at the Gr~yhonnd inn, close to the widow, & other benefactors, &; the endowment now station, (1897) consists of 23 acres of land & certain rent ~ Letters received through Shap R.S.O. arrive about 9 am. charges, producing tog-ether ['27 10S. yearly the school ",Yall Letter Box at Greenholme, cleared 3.30 p.m. is managoo by a body of five trustees &; will hold roo week days only. The nearest money order &. telegtaph children; average attendance, 51; Charles Cockcroft, master office is at Orton The children of this place attend the schoul at Greenholrmt Police Station, James Hobinson, constable Carrier, Wm. Simpson to Tebay Junction station, daily GREENHOLME is Q small but pleasantly situated hamlet, consisting chiefly of scattered farmhouse§, 3 At Orton Scar, about 2 miles north-east, is an earth miles south-west from OrLon and 4 north-west from work inclosure and fort, and on this spot Q silver fibula and torque of the Saxon period have been found. About Tebay Junction station, in the township of Birkbeck a mile south of the church is a spring called "Lady's Fells and in the parish of Orton. Services are held Well." in the schoolroom on Sundays by the vicar of Orton. Letters received through Shap R. S. O. arrive about 9 a.Dj. Frili'r Biggins is a flum about 1 mile north-east, 80 Wall Letter Box, cleared 3.30 p.m. week day!'! only. calloo on account of the Austin canons of Conishead having TlJ.e nearest money order & telegraph office is at Orton there built a house. The Free School (mixed & infants), built in 1734 &; rebuilt BRETHERDALE is a township, 4 miles north-west from by Thomas Hayton, a landowner of this parish, in 186r, Tooay Junction station and 4 miles south-west from Orton, was endowed by George Gibson, with 47 acres of land, consisting of a few scatteroo farmhouses in a romantic now (1896) producing [,54 yearly; it is managed by ll. spot, at the foot of a high hill, known as "Breast High." body of four trustees &; will hold 90 children; average This place shares in the charity of Philip, 4th baron attendance, 40 boys & I;irls &; 30 infants; Thomas COl, Wharton (1692), mentioned under Lang-dale. The Earl of master; Miss Sarah Elizabeth Cox, mistresl Lonsdale is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is good grazing land; subsoil, ragstone. The area LANGDALE is a mountainous towIlBhip in OrtOll is, with part of Fawcett Forest, 1,459 acres; rateable parish, containing a number of farmhouses and scattered value, £761; the population in r891 was 155, including dwellings, and is half a mile west from Gaisgill station on Birkbeck Fells and part of Fawcett Forest. the Tebay and Kirkby Stephen sootion of the North Eastern railway, 3 miles south-east from Orton and :<54 Letters received through Shap R.S.O. arrive at 10 a.m. from London. The Lune passes near, receiving two tribu· The nearest ·Wall Letter Box is at Greenholme, cleared tary streams, and good trout fishing can be had in the 4.30 p.m. week days unly. The nearest money urder neighbourhood. This town shares with Tebay and Brether· & telegraph office is at Orton • dale in the charity founded in r692 by Philip, 4th baron The children of this pla{:e attend the school at Greenholme Wnarton, from which 20 bibles and 20 prayer books are distributed yearly among the children of the above places; BIRKBECK FELLS is a large township, consisting Atkinson's charity of £34 10S. in securities, affords 17s. principally of bleak and hilly moorland, in the parishes a year for distribution. On Langdale Fell in this to"n of Orton, Shap and Crosbv Ravensworth, from 2~ to s! ship is Simon"s Seat, an eminence 1,925 feet in height. miles south-east from Shap and 4 north-west from 'l'ebay Here was born, in 1607, Thomas Barlow D.D. a learned Junction station. Tha Poor's Stock for this township divine of the 16th' century, educated at Appleby school affords 20S. yeady for distribution. Birkbeck Fells forms and Queen's College, Oxford, of which he was sometime a lordship with the manor of Crosby Ravensworth, which fellow, and in r657 provost; subsequently he became belongs to the Earl of Lonsdale. The principal landowners Margaret Professor of Divinity and archdeacon of are Edward Hayton, Mrs. Ostler and Mrs. Rigg. The soil Oxford, and in 1675 was appointed to the bishop is gravelly and moorland; subsoil, rag-stone. There are ric of Lincoln, which he held till his death, 8 no crops, it being all grazing land. The area of that part Oct. r691. The Earl of Lonsdale is lord of thlt which is in Orton parish is 610 acres; rateable value, manor, and the chief landowners are G. E. Thomp £612; the population in 1891 was 155, including Brether dale and pi;lrt of Fawcett Forest. son esq. and Miss M. Thompson, both of Kirkby Stephpll. The soil is good grazing land j subsoil, rag stone. The SHAP WELLS, in this township, are in a pleasant dale, area is 9,364 acres, of which 7,916 acres are moodandj about 4 miles south-east from Shap railway station, 6 rateable value, £1,798; the population in 1891 was 94' . north from Tebay Junction station and 3 north-west from Letters through Tebay R.S.O. arrive at 8 a.m. Tb'" Orton, 14 north-north-east from Kendal, r2 south-west nearest Wall Letter Box is at Gaisgill railway station, from Appleby and 14 south-south-west from Penrith. The cleared at 4.30 p.m. week days only. The neares~ medicinal properties of the waters are similar tu those money order & telegraph office is at Tebay at Leamington, and are considered very pfficacious in cases of gout, rheumatism, chronic complaints, scurvy British School (mixed), built in 1873, to hold 50 children; &c.; below is an analysis taken in ~~pril, 188r, by Mr. average attendance, 35; Fred Oxley, master James W. Montgomery F. C. ~. public analyst for the RAISBECK is a pleasantly situated township, 2 mile3 county of Cumberland. east of Orton, and consisting only of scattered farm One imperial pint containing:- houses. Coatflatt Hall, in this township, occupies th& Chloride of calcium 27'22 grains. site of an ancient mansion. Near Raisgill Hall, in which Chloride of magnesium '36" the manor courts were once held, is a tumulus, and 8 Chloride of SollUm 24 '23 " cistvaen and skeleton were fuund here: at Gamelands, 11 ~ulphate of lime... .48 " miles sonth-by-west, there is a regular circle, within Sulphate uf soda... 1'72 " which another human skeleton has been found. Oxide of iron & alnmimt .03" KELLETH, 3~ miles south-east of Orton, is a hamlet Silica...... ° 1 2" in this township. The water also contains an appreciable quantity of suI. SU~BIGGIN phuretted hydrogen in solution; it is 11 valuabla natural is a hamlet in this township, situatro water, and will be found of service as a. diuretic and in at the foot of a lofty scar, 3 miles east from Orlon, and many skin affections. The wells have now become a consists only of four farmhouses. In the hamlet are t';\"o place of fashionable resort, the late Earl of Lonsdale tumuli. havin~ erected a large and handsome hotel, with hot and Rayne, in this neighbourhood, consists of two farm< cold baths adjoining, for the accommodation of visitors, only. ¥r. Matthew Burra, Mr. John Robinson, Mr.Robert and attached are plcasnra grounds, including a lawn Blacklock Coates and Messrs_ Thom
