DIRJ..CTORY. J CUMBERLAND. CRO~SCA::\0~ HY. 139

The lands known as Wallhead, Walby and Wallfoot RRU~STOCK is a hamlet, 3 miles north-north-east of derive their names from the Roman wall which runs Carlisle, and by the "Divided Parishes Act " has been through the northern part of the parish. transferred to Stan wix for civil purposes . Sexton, John Errington. • By Local Government Board Order 19,6o3, a detached HIGH CROSBY is a small village, about half a mile part of Stanwix parish, known as Fark Broom Becks, east of Low Crosby. Crosby House is the residence of was in z887 added to Crosby-upon-Eden. Rev. Canon J oseph Hudson M.A. ~ e" by Grange is the seat of Thomas Hesketh Hodgson esq. J.P. Crosby Pust & Telephone Call Office, Crosby-on-Eden.-Miss L0dge is the property and residence of John Stormont Mary _-\nn Little, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive Hr.ys esq. from Carlisle at 7 a.m.; di>'patched at 6.50 a.m. & 5 Wall Letter Box at High Crosby, cleared at 4.40 p.m p.m. sundays excepted. #arwick Brj.dge is the nearest money or·der office & Houghton the nearest WA.LBY villag-e is about 4 miles north-east of Carlisle. telegraph office The Roman wall passed close to this township, where it is chiefly to be traced by its fosse The principal land- Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1844, for owners are the trustees of the late Mr. George Thomp- 100 children; average attendanc~. 6o; Thomas son, Mrs. Fitzgerald and )lrs. Armstrong. Fountain, master LOW CROSBY. Lambert Henry, Crown & Mitre P.H Harding Thos. carpenter, Moorside PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Little Mary Ann (Miss), shopkeeper, Irving David. farmer, Wall head Po:st office Lawson Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Old Carruthers Richard, Eden grove Vicarage house Hodgson Thos. Hesketh J.P. Newby HIGH CROSBY. Little William, farmer, Moss side grange Hartley Rev. Sl. B.A., L.Th. Vicarage Lowis George, farmer, Batt house le Patourel Mi~s Bays John Stormont, Crosby lodge Peel William, farmer, Crosby grange Loch Frederick Phayre, Edensteads Hudson Rev. Canon J oseph M.A. Thompson Thomas, farmer Street Charles Tidbury, Eden croft Crosby house COMMERCIAL. WALBY. COMMERCIAL. Armstrong Elizabeth (Miss), dress Bateman John Guns on, farmer Armstrong James, farmer maker, Crosby Moor Coriie John, farmer, Whitrigg house Davidson Joseph, farmer Armstrong Thomas, farmer Haugh William, farmer Forster Richard, yeoman, Wall head Clubbs Joseph & Annie (.~1iss), TPlford Jacob, farmer lrving Margaret (Mrs.), Stag P.H farmers, Holme ends CROSSCANONBY is an extensive parish in the CROSBY is a very neat village, 3 miles north-east Cockermouth division of the countv,• in the ward and from Maryport and within a mile of the Solway Firth. petty sessional division of Allerdale-below-Derwent, union The MaTyport and Carlisle railway passes through this and county court district of Cockermouth. rural deanery township, and has a station at Dearham Bridge, three­ of Maryport and archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle. quarters of a mile west of the village. The Primitive The village of Crosscanonby is very pleasantly seated Methodist chapel here was erected !n I863, and there on the side of a hill, about half a mile east from the is another Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1885, shore of Solway Firth, 2 miles from Bullgill station and for the use of the Crosby Villa inhabitants. Nicholson's about I mile from Dearham Bridge station, both on charity, left in IBIS, consists of about £277 in Stock, the Maryport and Carlisle railway, and 3 miles north­ produces about £n yearly, and is applied to educational east from Maryport. The parish comprises Cross­ purposes and in part to poor widows of Maryport. canonby, Crosby and Birkby. It is supplied with water The trustees of the late Richard B. Brockbank are the by the Aspatria, Silloth and District Water Board. The chief landowners. parish church of St. John the Evangelist is a small but Post & M. 0. Office, Crosby.-Thomas Penrice, sub-post­ ancient building of stone, in the Norman and Early n:aster. Letters through Maryport arrive at 7.50 a.m. English styles, dating from about uoo, and consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, north porch and a turret & 6 p. m. ; dispatched at 8.25 a.m. & 5-55 p.m. ; no delivery on sundays. Bullgill, about 2 miles distant, on the western gable containing one bell: there are several ancient monuments, one being a Saxon hog­ is tl;te nearest telegraph office backed stone : the church was carefully restored and Public Elementary School (mixed), built in z86r, for 230 reseated in t88o, under the direction of Mr. C. J. children; average attendance, 180; John Davidson, Ferguson F.S.A. architect, of Carlisle, at a cost of master; Miss Jane Steele, infants' mistress . £900, and affords 178 sittings. The register dates from the year 1'663. An older register, beginning at x6oo, BIRKBY is a small village, 2 miles north-east from has been lost since Bishop Nicholson's time (1702-18). Maryport. The charity of Philip, 4th Baron Wharton The living is a vicarage, net yearly nlue £263, with (d. 1695), for Bibles and other books, applies to this residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Car­ township. Birkby Lodge, a pleasant residence, is lisle, and held since 1893 by the Rev. William John occupied by Paul Whitehouse esq.; and Ellen Bank is Marsh M.A. of Queens' College, Cambridge, and surro­ the residence of Mrs. John Ritson. Lord Leconfield is gate. The vicarage was built about 1878. The Dean lord of the manor. Mrs. Cockton, of Kirkborough, is and Chapter of Carlisle are lords of the manor. the principal landowner. Harrison Mitchell esq. the trustees of the late H. Hall Garborough was a Roman settlement. esq. F. H. Ballantine-Dykes esq. of Dovenby Hall, and the trustees of the late Richard B. Brockbank are the Letters through Maryport, which is the nearest money chief landowners. The soil is of a dry gravelly nature, order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 a.m. & 5.30 p.m on red sand~tone. The chief crops are oats, wheat, bar- Wall Letter Box, cleared 8.35 a.m. & 6 p.m. week days ley and turnips. The area is 2,387 acres of land, II of only w8t£>r and 383 of fore.,hore; rateable value, £6,268; pcpulahon in gn, 58. Post, M. 0. &: T. Office, Bullgill (letters from Carlisle). 1 7 Parish Clerk, James Bland -William Ostle, sub-postmaster. Letters through Clerk to Parish Council, Tom S. McGraa. Carlisle arrive at 7.40 a.m. & 6.23 p.m. & through Letters through Maryport arrive about 7.30 a.m. & 6 :\-Iaryport at 7.20 a.m.; ~ispatched to Carli,le at II p.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 7-30 a. m. & 5·I5 a.m. & 7·3o p.m.; no delivery on sundays p.m. ~n summt>r & 4.15 p.m. in winter; no sunday j Railway Station, Bullgill, Joseph Graves, station master collection CROSSCANONBY. Collins Mrs. Moor park Hill George, farmer Marsh Rev. Wm. John M . .A.. (vicar Davidson John, Moor Lea house Hope Thomas, farmer & surrogate), Vicarage Gardiner James, East croft Johnston Joseph, farmer Richmond Hy. Richmond,Canonby ho Graham J. W. ~ook Laidlow John. beer retailer COMMERCIAL. Husband Thomas, Hope house :\laryport Co-operative Industrial So- Birkett Tom. farmer McMullon Mungo, Garborough house ciety Limited (branch) Dalzell William Hall, farmer Maxwell Jn. miller (water), Rose gill Ellwood Robert, sen. farmer, Cross COMMERCIAL. Nichol Francis, carpenter • Canonby Hall farm Armstrong Alfred Herbert, Stagg Inll Penrice Thos.sub-postmaster & joiner Ellwood Robert, jun. farmer Armstrong Richard, blacksmith Robinson John William, farmer Armstrong Robert, farmer Roney Arthur, Sun inn • CROSBY. Bell Robert, farmer Smith Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dobie John, blacksmith Thomlinson Jacob,beer ret.Crosbv• mr Carr Hugh J.P. Solway villa Henderson John, road contractor Topping J oseph, builder