DIRECTORY. J CUMBER LAND. IVEGILL. 179 ISEL. Bell Fearon, farmer Newton Mirehouse, farmer PIUV.A.TE :RESIDENTS. Bewsher William, farmer Pattinson John, yeoman Bewsher Thomas Gasgarth Daniel, farmer Scurr Horace, carpenter & joiner Lawson Sir Wilfrid bart. D.L., J.P. Key Mirehouse, cowkeeper Sibson Peter, farmer Isel hall; & Wellington club,Londn Norman J oseph, farmer Stockdale Samuel, farmer, assistant COMMEBCIA.L. Taylor Joseph, farmer overseer & clerk to the Parish Baternan Isaac, farmer, Isel gate . Council Bell William, farmer, Linskeldfield Teasdale James & Sons, farmers, Adcock Miss Millstone moor McGuffie William, farmer J ames Miss, Thorney croft Moore Thomas, head gardener to Sir Turnbnll Benjamin, farmer COMMEBCIA.L. Wilfrid Lawson hart SUNDERLAND. Watson Henry, farmer, Long close Bird J oseph, farmer Bowe Pearson, farmer Bell George, farmer ISEL OLD PARK. Grave John, grazier Cameron John, wood steward to Sir Greggain John R. Ghyll Yeat inn Wilfrid Lawijon hart. D.L., J.P Bell Thomas, farn1er Hetheringt001 John, farmer Gate John, farmer & landowner Taylor James, farmer Hodgaon Margaret (Mrs.), Moota Gate Robert, farmer Wood & Sons, farmers (letters thro' House P.H Moore Joseph, farmer Bassenthwaite Lake, ) Jobson Joseph, blacksmith Thirlwall Philip, farn1er Johnson Isaac, farmer Walker Thomas & Son, market grdnrs RED MAIN. Litt Wilfrid, farmer Waller James, farmer Atkinson Joseph, farmer I:Mitchell William, farmer Wailer James, jun. farmer I~ONFIELD, see Ive Gill. IVEGILL a.nd HIGHHEAD were formerly in is an inscription to Christopher Richmond and Edward Dalston parish, and together with the township of !ton­ Hasell, 186!011, who were instrumental in restoring the field in He.sket-in-the-Forest parish and Middlesceugh, ancient chapel: the chapel affords 150 sittings. The with the hamlets of High and Low Braithwaite in the register of baptisms dates from 1709, and there are parish ~f St. Mary, , were formed into a parish township accounts from 1663 to 1709. There are re­ 24th Dec. r867, and are on the banks of the Ive, 5 miles mains near here of a Roman camp, and coins, including south-east from Dalston station on the Maryport and one of gold, have been found. The manor of Highhead, Carlisle railway and 2! south-west from Southwaite sta­ or Hivehead, was formerly the property of the Harcla. tion on the London and North Wt>stern railway, and 7! family, of which was .Andrew de Harcla, created Baron south from Carlisle, in the Mid division of the county, Harcla by writ of summons, 15th May, 1321, and made Leath and Cum berland wards, Leath petty sessional Earl of Carlisle by royal charter, 25 May, 1332, but division, county court districts of Carlisle and Penrith, wa.s subsequently executed at York for treason; it now union of Penrith, rural deanery of Carlisle south and belongs to John Waller Hills esq. D.C.L., M.P. The archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle. Christ Church, soil is loamy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are hay, erected in r868, from designs by Mr. R. J. Withers, oats, turnips and potatoes. The area. of the parish is • architect, of Putney S.W. is a building of stone in the 6,645 acres; the population in 1901 was 507. Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch Post Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Rayson, sub-postmistr~s. and a western bell turret: the east window and nine Letters through Carlisle, via Southwaite, arrive at 8.5 others are stained: the organ was provided by subscrip­ a.m. ; dispatched at 3.20 p.m. ; no sunday delivery of tion: there are 150 sittings. The church and vicarage letter.s. Southwaite & Dalston are the nearest money were built by the Rev. Arthur Emilius Hulton M.A. order &; tell'graph offices and the church opened 22nd July, 1868; Mr.• Hulton, who was the first vicar, died 13th September, r868, and MIDDLESCEUGH (2 miles south-west from Ivegill) 'was buried at the east end of the churchyard. The and High and Low Braithwaite are hamlets, forming a register dates from the year 1868. The living is a township in the Leath ward, Penrith union, being de­ vicarage, net yearly value £295, with 16 acres of glebe tached from St. Mary's parish, Carlisle, and situated and re10idence, in the gift of the Bishop of Carlisle, between Hesket-in-the-Forest and Sebergham, about ID­ an-I held since 1905 by the Rev. Charles Thompson miles south from Carlisle, and in r867 were assigned t() Phillips B..i. of St. John's College, Cambridge. High­ fonu part of t'he ecclesiastical parish Qf Ivegill. The­ head Castle, an ancient pele tower, stands on the bank manor of Middlesceugh is the property of Sir Francis. of a precipitous height, 2! miles south-east of Rose Patrick Fletcher Vane hart. F.R.G.S. of Wythop, Castle: in the reign of Edward Il. it belonged to the Cockermouth, and that of Braithwaite belongs to Lord. Dalstons, lords of the barony of that name, and after­ Brougham and Vaux, and these are the largest land­ wards to the Dacres, but at the beginning of the reign owners. The area of the township is 2,085 acres of land of Edward Ill. it was granted for life to William and 6 of water; rateable value, £1,640; the population L'Englise or Langleys, who obtained licence to crenellate • it in the r6th year of that king, 1341-42; in 1358 John, m 1901 was I35· his .son, added a chapel : in 1375 the castle was tr!ms­ Sexton, John Wilkinson. ferred to the Restwolds, and remained with this family Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1872 &i until rsso, when it became the property, by purchase, endowed by deed in 1858 & 1861 with £300 in reduced of John Richmond esq. whose great-grandson, stock, producing £r5 per annum. It will hold 100 Christopher Richmond, born c. 1623, married Mabel, children; average attendance, 70; number on , daughter and co-heiress of John Vaux esq. of Catterlen; 96; average attendance, 86; Gilbert Howell, master. their grand-daughter, Elizabeth Richmond, some time The school, erected in 1858, is now used as a master's afte1· 1693 became the wife of Peter Brougham esq. of house Skelton, whose eldest son, Henry Richmond Brougham Wall Letter Box cleared I p.m. week days only esq. of Scales, and high sheriff of in 1749, eventually .sueceedPd to the estates of Brougham and ITONFIELD is a hamlet 2} miles north-east from Ive­ Highhead. During his tenancy the work of L'Englise gill, and consists of ~ttered farms. There is a small Wai mostly pullt-d down and a. new mansion erected in mission room here. Broadfield House, the seat of Robert th~ Renaissance style., at a cost, it is said, of £to,ooo, Stoney Oliphant-She:ffield esq. stands in a well-wooded the ornamt>ntal ceilings and other work being executed park of 200 acres. The principal landowners are Mrs. by Italian workmen ; it is now the property and resi­ Robert Stoney Oliphant-She:ffield and Joseph Robinson dence of John Wailer Hills esq. D.C.L., M.P. Of thE' esq. The Thorn, Penrith. The kennels of the Cumber­ ancient fabric, the gate-hou.se tower with its turret land Fox Hounds have been established for some years Reems to have been removed; the chapel and a part of at Roe Hill ; there are 22 couples, the property of the the curtain wall, with a tower overlooking the river, are Cumberland Hunt. Christopher John Parker esq. The all that now remains. Laithes, Penrith, is the master. Dalston and Carlisle are convenient places for hunting visitors. The soil .At HIGHHE.AD is a chapel of ease to Christ Church, is loamy; subsoil, clay; the chief crops are hay, oats, Ivegill: tJhe east window and six others are filled with turnips &c. ttained glass : over the entrance door on the south side Broad.field and Seeughhead are also hamlets. Phillips Rev. Charles Thompson B.A. Dennison John, yeoman, Swaithwaite IVE GILL. (vicar), Vicarage head Bills Jolm W&ler D.C.L., M.P., J.P. COMMEBCI.A.L. English James, scripture reader High Head castle; & 23 Queen Brown David, farmer, !Beacon hill Fisher James, farmer, Beaconsideo Anne's gate &; Brooks's club,London Brown John, yeoman & farmer, Fisher Jonathan, farmer, The Grange S W Swaithwaite hea.d Fisher Mary Isabella (Mrs.), farmer CCMB. 12*