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121 SELSIDI<:-WITH-WHITWELL. WESTl\10RLAND. [KELLY'S silver chalice. dated 1708, and a silver paten dated Fitzroy Bagot M.P. of Leven! Ball, who ill lord of the 17°9: the church affords 175 sitting-so The registers manor, Lady Henry Cavendish Bentinck, of Underley date for all entries from 1753. The living is a perpetual Hall, Sydney Roden Fothergill esq. J.P. of Strickldnd curacy or vicarage, net yearly value £195. with 170 Kettel,. Henry Anthony Tailzour-Shepherd and Balph acres of glebe and residence, in rthe gift of the Most Riddle ,Blount are chief landowners. The soil is loam; Rev. H. L. Clarke D.D. Archbishop of Melbourne, and ~ub~()il, sammel. The area of the township is 3,383 held since 1887 by the Rev. Joseph James Clarke M.A.. acres of land and 4 of water; rateable value, £2,569; of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Poor's land the population in 1901 was 204, and of the ecclesiastical and Stephenson's charity produce illbout £10 lIS. ~'early parish, 241. for distribution in money. Low Bridge House, the seat & of Sydney Roden Fothergill esq. M.A., J.P. is a fine Post T. -Office, Watchgate.-Mrs. Mary Rack, sub buildlng of local stone in the, Tudor style, erected in postmistress. Open 8 a.m. t{) B p.ID.; sundays, 8,30 1837 by the late R. Fothergill esq. and since enlarged; to 10 a.m.; letters t-hrough Kendal, arrive at 7.50 a.m.; dispatched at 5.15 p.m. week days only. Ken the house is approached by a pleasant drive of about half I a mile in length, and stands in its< o"'tl"n extensive and dal & Burneside are the nearest money order offices well-timbered grounds. SeIside Hall, now a farrnhouse, Free School (boy!! & girLs), built in 1793, rebuilt in but anciently the seat of bhe Thornburgh family, who 1831, & entirely rebuilt in 1897. & endowed by John came from Yorkshire either before or during the reign Kitching in 1730 with the Biggersbank estate, consist of Richard H. dates from the earlier portion of the 15th ing of a house &:, about SI acres of land, now pro century; the structure, rudely built with local material ducing £52 10S. yearly, & subsequently endowed with of various kinds, consists of a central block with the £100 by J{)seph Harling for the benefit of children principal front facing to the east, and tower-like wings attending the schools of Selside or Skelsmergh; the of two store~,"s at the north and south ends projecting school will hold 95 children; average attendance, 53; to the front and rear; the central portion, like Burneside Hcrbert Edward Oldham, maste'" Hall, originally contained the great dining hall, but has been substantiallv re-converted bv modern alterations; F.AWCETT FOREST is a township in Selside parish, in the cross wali at one end of 'the first floor of this 6 miles north from Kendal, 6~ miles south-west from block is a secret chamber communicating with the roof, Orton and 6 south from Shap station on the London and and also by a narrow passage 3 feet in length with North Western railway; it is surrounded by wild and an opening- in the floor concealed by a closet: the south mountainous scenery, and comprises a few scattered wing', 45 by 19 feet, has walls 3~ feet thick, and the farmhouses. The manor, ancienrtly called "Fauside," basement is divided by a wall, I foot 10 inches thick, was in the 12th century given by William de Lancastre into two barrel-vaulted chambers, lighted by small and to Byland Abbey, in Yorhhire. Forest Hall, an antique deeply-splayed windows; the room above has trpfoil- residence pleasantly situated, is now occupied as a farm heade d windo"l'l"S of the Decorated period, and a fireplace house, the remaining portion of a more ancient hall with a hexagonal chimney; the north wing, less !!trongly on the same site is now used as a st,able. The area i& built. and perhap~ of later date, has no vaulting in the 3,936 acres; rateable value, £806; the population in basement, but is otherwise similar. Watch Gate and 190r was 37· Lee Gate were approache!! to Selside Rall, and Meal High Borrow Bridge, in Fawcett Forest township, con Bank. Edg-e Bank and Outer Bank, or Otter Bank, are tains a house, once an inn, called the" Bay Horse," and probably so named in reference to the Hall, although then a noted stopping place for coaches and other Ilituate in the township of Skelsmergh. Capt. J osceline vehicles running between Kendal and Carlisle. SELSIDE. Dixon James, farmer, Kit crag Townley In. frmr. High Biggers bank PRIVATE R~:SIDENTS. Grisdale George, farmer, Yoad pot T,uner Henry, farmr. Gateside home Chrke Rev. Joseph James IVLA. The Jenkinson 'Wm. Plough inn, & farmer Walker Thos. farmer,East-above park Vicarage Jennings Henry, farmer, Long well Withers William, farmer, Dry how Fothergill Sydney Roden M.A., J.P. Jennings Jas. frmr. Low Biggersbank Wood Joseph, farmer, Cooper house Low Bridg-e house Knowlcs Rd. Kellett, farmer,Bank ho Grirnston Thos. Allg"ustin,\rozergh ho .Ylartindale Bolton, farmer, Crake hall FAWCETT FOREST. Martindale ~Irs. V\Test view .Martindale1-Vm.frmr.West Above park Blenkharn 1-Vm. Hy. frmr. Hause foot COMMERCIAL. ~Iyles John, farmer, Watchgate Blenkinship John, farm bailiff t-o Airey James, farmer,South Gate side Parkin William, farmer, Selside hall Joseph 1-Vood esq. Bannisdale head Bames Thos. farmer, High l\Iozergh Rack 1-Villiam, blacksmith, Watchgate Huck Tho'TIas, farmer, Hollowgate Batsman "Tilliam, farmer, Poppy Ridding Thomas, farmer, Steel croft Irving Tom, farmer, Forest hall Bindloss Edward Wood, farmer,Whit- Rowlandson Richard Gibson, farmer, Kitching Robt. frmr.Borrowdale head well folds Candv• ..lack Wharton In. frmr.High Borrowbridge Birkett Matthew, frmr. Goodhamscales Sutton John, farmer, Bowthwaite Wharton Thomas, farmer, Mart close SHAP is an extensive and mountainous parish and a memorial of her father, Dr. Kitchen: the church wag town, consisting- chiefly of detached houses extending restored in 1899 at a co~t of about £3,000, and afford~ for about a mile on the high rDad from Carlisle to 350 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559. Kendal and Lancaster, with a station on the main line The living is a vicarage, net. yearly value £136, with of the London and North Western railway, and is IO~ residence, in the gift of the Earl of Lonsd ale, and held miles south-south-east from Penrith, 13 west-tlouth-west since 1905 by the Rev. William Henry Grompton :\'I..A.. from .Appleby, 16 north-by-east from Kendal by road of thE' University of London. chaplain of West Ward or 20~ by rail, 28~ south-east from Carlisle, 39 north 1VorkhoU<se and surrogate. Here is a Wesleyan Metho from Lancaster and 269~ by rail and 276 by road from dist chapel, built in 1845, and also a Plymouth Brethren London, in the Northern division of the county, West meeting room. There is a parish room, and a reading ward, petty sessional division and union of the "7est room and library, opened in August, r872. A charter Ward, county court district of Penrith, rural deanery was obtained in 1687 lOT a market, but this has of of Lowther and archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle: recent years fallen into disuse. Two faiTIl for cattle and the town, from its elevated and exposed position, is sheep are teld here, one on th9 4th of May and the exceedingly bleak and cold in winter, but in summer other on the 23rd of September. An agricultural show it is much frequented by visitors for it5 pure air and, is held annually in September. fine muuntain scenery; the river Lowther flows through The Shap Granite Co. Limited have large quarrie. the parish, and the Leeth stream takes its rise near about two miles south of the town, and employ a large i~ the town; the water supply derived from springs in number of men. the surrounding hills, and is brought to the town by gravitation; the town is lighted with petrol lamps by At Shap Summit. near the granite quarries, the the Urban District Council. London and North Western railway reache<l the hig-hest By Local Government Board Order ~o. 45,299, dated point of its system in England. 25th .rannary, 1904, the ancient civil parish was divided Charities :~The Poor's La.nd of 32 acres, commonly into Urban and Rural parishes, and under the provisions called the "Poor Hagg," and Moor Close allotment pro of the "Local Government Act, 1894," the Urban pari5h duce £17 a year for distribution in money on St. is now governed by an Urban District Council of seven Thomas's day, less 78. M. for education; Rawes's charity members. of about £8 IS s. yearly, derived from £340 in Conso16, The chllrclI of St. Michael is Hn ancient edifice of provides £3 II s. for educational purposes, and i5 applied stone in the Norman and Gothic styles, consisting of to the purC'hase of prizes for cbildren attending the oh:mcel, nave and aisles, west porch and a low embattJIed school in the parish and £5 418. for bread; Cooper's western tower, containing 6 bells Hnd a clock, placed in benefaction, founded by a will in 1833, affords £1 os. 1882 by Miss L. A. Tea;;dale, in memory of her for bread ami £ r 8s. f{)f distribution in money on St. parents: the font was presented by Mrs.