DIRECTORY.] CUMBERJ...AND. IRTO~. 177 Johnston John, farmer,Longrigg thrn NEWBY. Farries Elizabeth (Miss), farmer Lightfoot John, farmer, Watch close Letters should have Wetheral, Car- Gillespie Archibald, farmer Little Archibald, John, William & lisle, added. Graham Thomas B. farmer, Breaks Richard, farmers, Stonewall Marked * letters should be addressed Irving David. mason Little William & Son, cloggers Crosby-on-Eden, Carlisle. Irving John, mason Little John, farmer, Common house COMln;Rcu.L. Mallinson John, farmer, Headswood Mark Robert, farmer, Lane end '3. oil n Thomas, farmer, Low Watch Mark J oseph, mason Messenger John, farmer, Glebe Cross Mitchinson David, tailor Palmer Robert, farmer, see Hether- Jopsey James C. butcher Newtown & Irthington Public Hall ington & Palmer l"orster Joseph, farmer (George Robson, .sec) Pattinson Benjamin, smith Hethet:ington J sph. beer & wine retlr Nix on Robert, farmer Potts Mary (Mrs.), Sportsman inn Johnson Robert, farmer, Newby hull Sessford John, cowkeeper Richardson Martha(Mrs. ),frmr.Gill he *Little John L. yeoman, Watch Cross Smith John, farm ba~liff to G. John- Robson James, farmer, Patesh:ll Mitchinson Joseph F. farmer son esq. Cambeck h1ll Saunders John, farmer H.ubinson William, farmer StJrrow Ja..nes & Th?s. shopkeepers Slack Richard & Marg.uet & Funny Slack Joseph & William Storrow Thomas, assistant overseer & (:Misses), farmers, Mireside Watson Thomas, farmer, Rye close income tax collector Sprout William, cowkeeper, Lane e:1d Stanwix Thomas, yeoman, Bleatarn NEWTOWN. Wilson Joseph, farmer, Holly bush Letters should have Irthington, Car­ RULEHOL~E. Winter William, farmer, Riggshield lisle, added. Letters should have Brampton !.rmstrong John, farmer, Kilsykehill added. Beuttie David W. yeoman Hudspith George, Golden Fleece P .H IRTON with SANTON form a parish on the river lime nor freestone is found here, but granite is plentiful. lrt, in the Western division of the county, ward and The manor of lrton was held in the reign of Henry I. petty sesoional division of ..!.llerdale-above-Derwent, by Bartram de Irton, whose successor, .Adam de Irton, Bootle union, county court district of Whitehaven, rural was a knight hospitaller, and joined in the crusades; deanery of Gosforth, archdeaconry of Furness and dio­ from him descended John Irton esq. temp. Edward IV. cese of Carlisle. Irton is 4 miles north-east from Drigg who married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Lamplugh statioJn on the lt'urnes:3 railway, 5 east from Wastwater kt. ; his grandson, Thomas Irton esq. fought at Flodden lake, 3~ south-w9st from Ravenglass, 10 north from Field (9 Sept. 1513), and was there knighted by the Egremont, 15 south from Broughton (Lanes) and 17 Earl of Surrey, who commanded the English forces; north-west from Whitehaven. The parish was inclosed three later members of the family, in 1543, 1753 and' by .!et of Parliament passed in 18og. The church, 1765, were high sheriffs of Cumberland, and more now known as St. Paul, but originally dedicated to St. recently Samuel Irton esq. of lrton, was M.P. for West Michael, wa.s rebuilt in 1795, and again rebuilt on the Cumberland in seven parliaments. Greenlands is the same site in 1856-7, and re-opened 16 June, 1857; it residence of Aubrey Brocklebank esq. J.P. Sir Thomas is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, from Brocklebank hart. who is lord of the manor, Lieut.-Col. designs by Mr. Miles Thompson, architect, of Kendal. E. F. Lowthorpe-Lutwidge J.P., D.L. John Musgrave and con~ists of chancel, nave, porch and an embattled esq. and the trustees of the late Mr. Jacob Gaitskell, wi'stern tower with turret ~ontaining 8 bells. the gift are the principal landowners. There are also some small of the late Sir Thomas Brocklebank hart. in 1888 in owners. The area of Irton and Santon parish is 6,122 memory of his wife~ the chancel, separated from the acres of land and 59 of water; rateable value, £3,940 ; nave by a fine arch, was enlarged in 1873; the old the population in 1901 was 469. pews we1e removed and open benches substituted by the Rev. Robert Gordon .Collingwood ; it has a stained HOLMROOK is a hamlet in the parishes of Irton and east window to the memory of Vice-_\dmiral Brian Drigg, 2 miles nm th from Ravenglass, and about . 1l Hodgson, d. 1855, the gift of Mrs. Hodgson: the stained not th-east from Drigg station on the Furness railway. east window was presented by the late Samuel Irton Tha place is seated on the banks of the river Irt, crossed e8q. of Irton Hall, d. 12 .!pril, 1766; there is another by an excellent stone bridge of two arches, and abound­ to John Oldham Ryder esq. given by his widow; one ing with salmon, which afford good sport to the angler. erected by the late Sir Thomas Brocklrbank bSeascale station at 6.20 a.m. &; Drigg named: the church ha.s been restored since 1873, at a at 4.8 p.m.; delivered at 7.20 a.m. & 4·45 p.m. cost of £r,soo, and affords 230 sittings. In the church­ (letters can be called for); on sundays letters arrive yard is a very ancient and massive stone cross, a bout from Seascale at 8.30 a.m. (callers only) ; dispatched ten feet high, richly sculptured on one side with inter­ at 10.25 a.m. & 3.30 & 7·5 p.m laced work, and on the other with various patterns in compartments, surrounded by a twisted border. The S..lNTON BRIDGE is a hamlet on the north bank of registers date from the year 1695. The living is a the river Irt, 5 miles north-by-ea·st from Ravenglass, 4 vicarage, net yearly value £163, in the gift of Sir south-west from Wastwater and 4 north-east from Drigg Thomas Brocklebank bart. J.P. and held since 1898 by station on the Furness railwav.• The river Irt is here the Rev. W alter Horatio Spurrier M . .A. of Brasenose cro~sed by a good stone bridge of one arch, and nearly Collrge, Oxford. adjoining is a ~ood inn. The hamlet consists of a few Charities-:-The poor's money of 1os. yearly is derived scattered houses, mostly farm residences. The scenery from about £18 invested in Savings Bank securities. around is of the most delightful character. The School charity, now consisting of 2 acres of land Post & Telegraph Office, Santon Bridge.-Miss Elizabeth ani £301 in Consols, together producing about £1o Turner, !lob-postmistress. Letters through Holmrook, yearly, is held by official trustees. .A. charity for bread Cnmberland, arrive at 8.50 a.m. & 5.40 p.m. & dis­ &c. is !laid to be lost. patched at 9·45 a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; no delivery or dis­ Various relics of Pre-Roman date, including a. flint patch on sunday!l. Holmrook is the nearest money spear head, stone weapons and an unpolished celt, have order office, which is closed on sundays been found here and on the fell. Irton Hall, the seat of Sir Thomas Brocklel:;ank hart. HALL S.ANTON is a hamlet, about half a mile distant, J.P. is an ancient mansion, incorporating an embattled containing- three or four farm residences and a. market quadrangular tower and .other portions of an early garden. The We'>leyan M~.>thodist chapel here was built border castle; it is delightfully situated on an eminence, in 1828. The soil here being of a ligbt sandy descrip­ commanding extensive views of the surrounding country, tion, and the subsoil gravel, is well suited for gardening and in front of the house stands an oak of great size purposes. !. path leading from this place towards the and age. The parish generally is hilly, the eastern village of Holmrook, across the fields, forms a delightful parts mountainous ; the soil variable, some parts bein~ walk ; it is of considerable length and has rather a Pandy, and in other parts peat or bog; neither coal, steep ascent through a wood, the trees of which form CPMB-. 12