DIRECTORY.] CUMBERLAND. MOSSER. 219 betn tr.ansferred by \he owner, Mrs. Bragg, of London, fants ; Miss Eliza Graham, mistress ; Mrs. Elizabeth to a body of trustees, as both are voluntary Church Renwick, infants' mistress of England schools, & the rector of the parish i5 chair Railway Station, Parton, Jn. Jsph. Taylor, station master man of the trustees ; the schools will hold II6 girls & Carriers to Whitehaven.-William Corlett, Thomas 107 infants : average attendance, 107 girls & 94 in- Bewsher & John Hodgson, tues. thurs. k sat MORESBY. Cleator Moor Co-{)perative Society Bewsher Thomas, carrier Limited, Moresby parks Brown Joseph Wm. draper & tailor Marked thus * should be addressed Parton, Whitehaven. Haggerty A.lex. farmer, The High Carruthers Frances .Ann (Mrs.), Sta- Hl.
MOSSER is a township comprising the divisions of area of the township is 1,491 acres ; rateable value, High and Low Mosser, formed into a parish 28 .Aug. £g6r ; the population in 1901 was, township 75, eccle 1883, out of Brigham parish, and since enlarged by the siastical parish 409. addition of three other townships, 2! miles east from Letters through Cockermonth arrive at 8.30 a.m.; dis IDlock station on the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont patched at 4.20 p.m. Cockermouth is the nearest railway and from 4 to 6 south-east from Cockermouth, money order & telegraph office in the Cockermouth division of the county, ward of The children of this parish attend Paddle school in Allerdale-above-Derwent, petty sessional division of Der Eaglesfield township went, Cockermoutb union, county court district of Cockermouth and Workington, rural deanery of Cocker BLINDBOTHEL is a township in the civil parish of mouth, archdeaconry of Westmorland and diocese of Brigham, from which it is 3 miles south ; it is bounded Carlisle. The old church of St. Philip, erected in 1773, in pa.rt by the river Cocker, and consists of a. number of is an edifice of stone, consisting only of nave and a scattered farms, all freehold. Brandlingill is the resir western turret containing one bell : it is still used for dence of Mrs. Sewell. Lord Leconfield is lord of the divine service, and affords 100 sittings. The new church, manor. The area is 1,258 acres of land and 3 of water; erected in 1891, at a cost of [1,ooo, on a. site of 1! rateable value, [1,413; the population in 1901 was 89. acres in the township of Eaglesfield given by the Earl Letters recei~ed through Cockermouth arrive at 9 a.m of Lonsdale, is a small building of stone in the Gothic EA.GLESFIET.Jl is a township and small village, 2! style, and has a turret containing one bell : the east miles south-west from Oockermouth. The new parish window is a memorial to Mary, wife af the late Robins(ln church of St. Philip is loc.Illy in this township. There Mitchell esq.: the oak reredos was the gift and work is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel here, built in 1845. The of Mrs. Sewell, in memory of her husband, the late Col. Society of Friends have a meeting house here, built in Sewell, and the· same lady presented the carved oak 171I. Lord Leconfieldi is lord of the manor. The Earl of altar rails in memory of her mother, Mrs. Austle: in Lonsdale, Joseph Harris esq. of Brackenburgh Tower, the church is an inscription placed there by the Royal Carlisle, William Williamson esq. of Allonby, a.nd Society of London to commemorate the birthplace of the Robert Benn esq. are the chief landowners. A great illustrious John Dalton (born Sept. 5, 1766): there are quantity of limestone is still obtainable in this town• 100 sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates ship. The area is 1,993 acres of land and 5 of water; from I7Bo, and of marriages from r883. The living is rateable value, £2,036 ; the population in I90I was 222. a vicarage, net yearly value £r6o, with residence, in Post Office.-Mrs. Mary Flood, sub-pOf!tmistress. Let- the gift of the Bishop of Carlisle, and held since 1883 ters through Cockermouth arrive at 7·45 a.m.; dis by the Rev. Thomas Platt Moorhouse M.A. of Queens' patched at 5.20 p.m. Brigham is the nearest money College, Cambridge. Porter's charity consists of [100 order & telegra.ph office in Consols, which is applied to the education of children Paddle Public Elementary School, for this parish & in the township of Mosser whose parents are poor, but Blindbothel (boys & girls), erected in 1843 k since not in receipt of parochial relief. Lord Leconfield is enlarged, & endowed with 20 acres of land, producing lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Mrs. £ r6 yearly ; the school will hold 120 children ; average Dixon, Lorton Hall; William Fletcher Dixon esq. of attendance, 84 ; William Wilson, master Toddell, Whinfell; William Cape esq. of Bothel; John Pawcett esq. of The Manor Farm, near Alresford, Rants, The western portion of WHINFEIJ, township was Henry Peacock, of Cockermouth ; Mrs. Sewell, Edwin added to Mosser along with townships of Blindbothel .Ja.ckson, of Threlkeld Leys, and Robinson Mitchell and Eaglesfield to form the ecclesiastical parish of esq. 'I'he soil is light and gravelly; subsoil, slate Mosser. The township takes its name from the Fell, rock. The chief crops are oats, turnips and grass. The behind it, which rises to the height of 1,200 feet above sea