• J THRIMBY-WITH-} 134 t STRICKLAND. WEST~IORLAND. [KELLY'S is also lined with wainscot nearly up to the ceiling, the in the upper parts, with a subsoil of limestone. The intermediate space is filled with pargetting in relief : -c:Wef cr(}p is oats and some land in pasture. The area the mantel-piece is of carved oak, and has fluted is 786 acres of land and 3 ~f water; rateable value~ pilasters on either side,. inclosing two deeply-Tecessed £1,369 ~ population in 1gn, 102. panels, each containing an indented circulall arch with foliaged spandrils : within one arch is the bust of a Letters through Penrith arrive at 9 a.m. Hackthorpe female, and the other bears the date 1612, added doubt is the nearest money order & telegraph office less at ~ later period than the work would indicate : WaD Letter Box cleared at 9 a.m. week days only the entrance· doorway, which is in the smaller, or Public Elementary School (formerly endowed), Little central block, is pointed, and has a heavy hood mould Strickland (mixed), founded in 1681 by deed of ing ol the same shape: the arms of Crackenthorpe, Thomas Fletcher esq. & endowed by him with £8 16s. once carved over the hall window, have disappeared, a year, derived from rent charges; it will hold 4<> but the framed tablet remains. The Earl of Lcmsdale children; average attendance, 35; Frank Newall~ ilt lord of the manor, which formerly belonged to a master younger branch of the Crackenthorpe family, who resided here for many generations. The land in the Carrier to Penrith. John Wharton, from Maulds valleys is a rich loam, but a light sandy soil prevails Meaburn, passes through tues THRIMBY. Parker Thomas, farmer Brocklebank James, assistant overseer Clark John James, farmer, Hall Shepherd WHliam, farmer & clogger for Great Strickland Holme Hy. farmer & assist. overseer Simpson Thomas, blacksmith Gasgarth John, fa-rmer ~owley Arthur Wilkinson, farmer, Smith Thomas, farmer Gasgarth Thomas, farmer Grange Steadman Harriet Mary (Mrs.), Low- Hodgson Richard & Thomas, farmers ther Castle P.H Hope John, blacksmith GREAT STRICKLA~D. Strong John James, farmer Ladds James, farmer Branthwaite Misses, Meadow bank Strong William, farmer Livick John, farmer Hntchinson Mrs. Oaklands Taylor James, joiner, & assistant Parker John, farmer Jones Rev. George, Vicarage overseer for Little Strickland Robson William, farmer Longrigg William :M.A., D.L., J.P Thornborrow George, farmer Wilson Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Whiteside Mrs. Greencroft house Todd Joseph Simpson, farmer, Wood Wilson Leonard, sen. farmer CO"!d!ERCIAL. house (postal address ~lelkinthorpe, Wilson Leonard, jun. shopl.:eeper Borrowdale Jane Ann (Mrl!.), shopkpr Penrith) Woof Joseph, farmer Bowman Joseph, farmer Woof Alfred, farmer Woof Richard, farmer .Bowness John William, farmer :Bulman Joseph, farmer LITTLE STRICKLA:XD. :MEALY SYKE. Earl George, farmer Faulkner William, farmer COMMERCIAL. Dixon William. farmer . Svke. house • Jackson Richard, farmer Bewley Mary Jane (Mrs.), Greyhound Egglestone Jonathan, farmer, Hesley Oldcorn :\lary (Miss), shopkeeper P.H lJackson Richard, farmer T.ROUT:BECK, formerly a township in the parish which falls into the lake between the old and ' new of Windermere, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish Calgarth Halls ; the upper portion of the vale, once a 5 Dec. 1882, out of Windermere and St. Mary's, Apple densely-wooded tract, is now almost treeless ; to the thwaite, and is in the Northern division of the county, north is Ill Bell (2,476 feet), and along the fells beyond Kendal ward and union, petty sessional division and ran the- Roman road called High Street (2,663 feet); county court district of Ambleside, rural deanery of near which, on the side of Froswick, is Scat's Rake,. Ambleside and nrchdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle. where it is said a detachment of the Scottish force& The parish is extensive and contains some of the finest encamped during the rising in 1715; west of the valley views in the lake district. The village, about 1! miles is Wansfell (1.,581 feet), and on the east the heights in length, is straggling, and is 3~ miles north from vary in altitude from 1,568 to 1,727 feet; the road Windermere terminal station on the branch from O:xen from Troutbeck bridge~ at the foot of the valley t«> holme of the London and North Western railway, 4 Low Wood on the lake side, affords magnificent views~ south-by-east from Ambleside, 4 north from Bow both of Windermere and the grand yet varied scenery ness, ro north-west from Kendal, and 12 from Coniston by which it is surrounded. .A.t Spying How, in this lake. The church, consecrated as Jesus cha.pel, 8 July, parish, a cairn, cistvaen, and human bones have been 1562, by William Downham, bishop of Chester, having found, and a cairn also at W oundale Raise; and at then been rebuilt on the site of a former chapel, and Chapel Ridding, near Windermere, a neolithic imple again, 30 April, 1563, by Matthew Parker, archbishop of ment was met with. Langdale Chase, now (1914) un~ Canterbury, is a building of stone, in the plain style of ot;:.cupied, is a modern mansion of stone ; Birkhead, the the Lake country, altered and ·added to in 1736, at a residence of Col. John Dawson; commands fine views of cost of £142 ss. ; it consists of chancel, nave, porch, the Troutbeck valley ~ Townend, the residence of and a square tower containing one bell, cast in 1631, George Browne esq. is of great antiquity and is replete and bearing the inscription, "Jesvs be ovr speede:" with old wood carvings; Holbeck Ghyll, the residence the stained east window, the work of Burne-Jones, was of Robert .Toseph Cleg-g esq_ J.P. and Merewood, the presented in 1873 by the late J. M. Dunlop esq. of residence of Thomas Herbert Thwaites esq. are both Holehird, and the oak communion table in r684 by pleasantly situated and fine views of the lake are Mr. John Philipson, of Causey, Applethwaite: there are obtained. Ecclerigg, the residence of Charles Dunn also nine memorial windows : the church was repaired esq. J.P. is a stone mansion. with fine prospects. in 1828, and reseated in 1861, and in 1870 a fine organ Brierv• Close, the residence of Oswald William Edward was given by the late Mr. Dnnlop: in 1908 an oak read Hedley esq. stands in extensive grounds, and commands- ing desk and a brass were placed in the church in fine views of the surrounding scenery. The Right Hon. memory of the Rev. William Lowthian M.A. vicar r893- James William Lowther P.C., M.P., Speaker of the rgo6, who perished in a snowstorm : there are .250 sit House of Commons, who is lord of the manor, Col. John tings. The register dates from the year 1579. The Dawson, of Birkhead, :Mrs. Forrest, Nicholas Wilson living is a vicara~e, net yearly value [310, with resi f>Sq. George Browne esq. 0. W. E. Hedley esq. and dence, in the g-ift of the Bishop of Carlisle, and held Tr'ontbeck Park Green Slate Co. are the chief land since 1910 by the Rev. William Sully Unwin M.A. of owners. The soil is sandy ; subsoil, rock and graveL Magdalen ColleJ!f>, Oxford. The Vicarage house was The land is principally in pasture. The area is- 5·794 built in 1872. The Troutbeck Institute, established in acres of land and 12 of water; rateable value, £,6,208; J87o, contains a library and billiard room. Braithwaite's the population in I9II was 491 in the township aud 6or charity, founded l>y deed in 1857, consists of [1,069 14s. in the ecclesiastical parish. in Consols, producing £32 a year for educational pur poses, which is amalgamated with the school endow Sexton, William Hayton. ment fund; the Rev. :Mr. Freeman's charity, founded .Assistant Overseer & Clerk to Parish Council, Benjamin by will in 1799, produces £r 6s. 8d. yl:'arly, and Birkett, Browne, The Boot, Windermere. of Middlerigg and Birkett, of Wensley's charity, pro duce £r 6s. 8d. each per annum, both being for distribu Post Office, Troutbeck.-John Waiter Caine, sub-post tion in money~ the sum of [5 ss. 7d. being two-ninths master. Letters arrive from Windermere at 7.30 of Borwicke and ros. 9d. Jackson's charities, are also a.m. k 4.25 p.m.; sundays, 9 a. m.; dispatched at assigned to this parish ; and there is also Mrs. Free 9.50 a.m. & 6.10 p.m. ; sundays, 2.50 p.m. Trout~ man's charity of £2 9s. for bread. The Troutbeck beck Bridge is the nearest money order office k valley extends for about 5 miles northward from Windermere is the nearest telegraph office; telegrams Winde-xmerey and is traversed by the Troutbeck stream, sent to Windermere by telephone at the Institute