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DIRECTORY. ] CU~:1BERLAND. ORTON. 221 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. For!!ter Francis, farmer, Nook Millican Henry, coal merchant,Penton Forster John, Stonegarthside Forster Frank, farmer, Warwicksland Nichol Catberine (Mrs.), g-rocer Irving'Miss Pasture head Forster .John, farmer, Luwer Stune- Nichol Waiter, farmer, Ladslodge Joyce Rev. Henry Morrogh L.Th.The 'I garthside Nixon Thomas, beer retailer, Leagair Rectory Forster John, farmer, Stonegarthside Noble Chris.farmer,Beyond-the-Wood Marshall Thomas R. Kershope house ,Fors~er William, farm~r, Hollim. Potts Mary Ann (Miss), shopkeeper, Noble William J oseph, Penton house Goslmg J ohn,farmer,Plper Dean rlgg Drakemire Graham .T ohn, fannel', Scugg Roden William, assistant overseer &. COMMERCIAL. Graham. Thomas,,farmer Penton schoolmaster Baty John. blacksmith, Stoney gate Graham Thomas, farmer, Raeburn Steel William, farmer, Liddell park Buter John, farmer, Pike Graham William, frmr.Roading head Stevenson William, station master Broatch David, farmer,Stonegarthside Graham 'Villiam, shpkpr. Pleaknowes Tait Sarah (Mrs.), sub-postmistress, Broatch N ancy (Miss), farmer, W.a t- I IIenderson J ohnJas.farmer.The Green Penton ley hint Hewitt John, farmer, High Catlowdy Tait Thomas, mason, Penton Dlxnn Wm. & Jas. frmrs.Glebbe bank Hogg Waiter, farmer, Kershope fODt Tait Thomas HodgsDn, Penton Bridge Dixon Arthur, farmer, Midcatlowdy 'James Robt.frmr. Birch Timber hill, P.H. Penton Dixon Arthur, joiner, Lowfield house Juhnston Andrew, farmer, Hirst head Telford James, farmer, PeppermDss Dixon John, farmer, RDan Johnston Robert, farmer, Old hall Tuddenham William, gamekeeper to Dixon Robt. farmer, Beyond-the-Moss Johnston Sarah (:\iiss), farmer, W. J. Noble esq Dixon William, farmer, Glebabank Whiteknowe Turnbull Geo. farmer,Stonegarthside Easton Mary (Miss), Huntsman P.R. Lawson Bros. farmers, Redgate head Vevers Margt. (Miss), frmr. Hill top Corner house Lawson Stephen, farmer, Dyke head Whiteman In. farmer,Heathery fauld Forrester Edward &; Wm. farmers, Leslie Joseph & ~Walter, farmers,Glen- Wood JDhn, farmer, 'l'horney knowe Nook foot I denning rigg ORTON is a township, parish and village, 3~ miles from about 70 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Sir Dalscon station, on the Maryport and Carlisle railway, Musgrave Horton Brisco bart. and held since 1883 by 3~ from Kirk Andrews station, Dn the Sill{)th branch {)f the Rev. William Foster Gilbanks M.A. of St. Edmund the North British railway, 4 from Burgh-by-Sands, 5 : Hall, Oxford. Pattinson's Charity, consisting of about west from Carlisle, and 7 nDrth-east from Wigton, in £128 in zt per cents. now (1906) produces £3 I7s. the NDrthern division of the county, Cumberland ward yearly, which is applied by the Board of Education, tt} and petty sessional division, union and county cuurt the distribution of prizes. ~ear Little Orton was a district {)f Carlisle, rural deanery of Carlisle SDuth, and I banked enclosure, into which cattle, when raids were archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle. The village is I feared, could be driven and guarded. Sir Musgrave called "Great Orton," and an adjacent enclosed spot Hm'ton Brisco bart. of Crofton Hall, is lord of the west Df the village, and knDwn as "Parson's ThDrn," I manor; the Rector, Mrs. Ann Pattinson, Joseph Hall aifmds a fine view, within a radins of abDut 30 miles, I esq. of Park gate, vVigton, Albert Hayes esq. Joseph embracing Carlisle, Gretna, and other interesting' Beaucharr.p Watson esq. F.R.G.S. of Gelt Hall, Mrs. localities; and it is said that with a clear atmosphere, Blaylock of Normanby, Clement Skelton Sutton esq. not less than fifteen churches, some of which are in, and Thomas R. Norman esq. of Bow, are the principal Scotland, may be plainly seen. The church of St. landowners. The arrangement of the land west of the Kentigern, probably erected during the period IIoS-30, village is peculiar and illustrates the primitive village is a small building of freestone in the 'l'ransitional- tenure known as the "Three field" system. The soil is Xorman style, consisting ()f chancel, nave, and a western rich loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are oats, hay, bell-cot containing I bell. The walls are over 3 feet turnips and potatoes in rotation. The area is 4,28& in thickness, and are in part C<Jnstructed with Roman acres; rateable value, £4,692; the population in Igor materials: the chancel was hnilt with an outward slope, was 442. from base to wall plate, which gives it the semblance Parish Clerk and Sexton, Francis Moore. of lI. ship (navis), and retains an ancient piscina, dis- covered in 1883: the stained east window is a memorial Baldwin Holme is a village, I~ miles south of Great to the Rev. Robert Pearson, rector, 18 45-57: and there OI'ton. Bow, a hamlet, I mile north of Great Orton. is another to the Rev. William Theed M.A. rector, 1859- Little Orton, a hamlet, 2 miles east of GI'eat OI'ton. 8~, and one erected in r888 to various members of the OrtDn Rigg, a hamlet, I mile sDuth from Great Orton. Nixon family. The cDmmunion plate includes a silver Woodhauses, a hamlet, I~ miles south of Great Orton. chalice, dated 1571. The church was thoroughly re- Post Office.-Francis Moore, sub-postmaster. Letters stored in 1886, at a total cost of £527, when the floors thl'Ough Carlisle arrive at 7.45 a.m.; dispatched at were lowered and relaid, including a pavement of marble 4. IS p.m.; no sunday delivery. Burgh-by-Sands is: mosaic in the chancel, which also was re-seated in oak. the nearest money order & Thursby telegraph office- In the course of the work, the remains af an Early for Great Orton, Bow &; Little Ortan. Dalston is the- English font and part of the shaft of a cross with nail- nearest money order & telegraph office for Baldwin head moulding were met with, and have been built holme, Orton Rig~ &, Wuodhouses into the churchyard wall. There are 160 sittings. The Public Elementary School, built in 1859, for 180 child- • ancient register, illegible in parts, dates from 1568. ren; average attendance, 68; James Carruthers, mas- The living is a rectory, net yearly value £265, with ter; Miss Sarah Wilson, mistress GREAT ORTON. Reed Mary (::-'irs.), farmer, Croft ha IReed Frederick, farmer Critchley Lieut. Oswald Ashton, Or- Ruddick Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress ma ThDmpsDn Nicholas Bowes, farmer ton park Snape Henry, carpenter & joiner Wood Elizabeth & Son, farmers Curl' Mrs. Red house Sutton Clement SkeIton, farmer &-: Gilbanks Rev.Wm.FosterM.A. (rector) landowner ORTON RIGG. Todd Robert, farmer Hutchinson Mrs. Field View cottage Armstrong Messrs. farmers Pigg Thomas, Huntingdon place Wilson John, farmer ! Graham William, farmer Sutton Clement Skelton, The Limes Harrison John, farmer &; landowner COMMERCIAL. LITTLE ORTON. Liddell Thoma!'l, farmer I Bell Richard, farmer, The Grange Clarke Richard, farmer Blain Joseph, farmer Lowes Mary (Mrs.), baker WOODHOUSES. Brown Lowther, farmer Norman George, farmer Brown Robert, farmer Brown Thomas, wheelwright Pattinson Henry, farmer Newton Mrs. farmer & landDwner Curl' Mrs. farmer, Red house Story Ann & Jane (The Misses),frmrs Reay William, farmer Dixon Ann Jan~ (Miss). grocer ThomlinsDn Jsph. frmr. Tempest twr Varey George, farmer, Pow Halifax Mary (Mrs.), Wellington inn Wilson Edward, farmer Wilson Joseph, farmer H:l.rrison David, farmer Hope JDseph, faTIner, Orton ball Hudson George, farmer, Newby cross BALDWI~HOLME. BOW. Hutchinson John, farmer '& sheep Thompson Nicholas Bowes, Linden hD Roustead William dealer, SceughmiI'es i Norman Mrs. The Cottage COMMERCIAL. I Johnston James &; Tom, blacksmiths . Johnston J ames, farmer Haig Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAL. LightfDot Jeremiah, baker &; farmer Hind Thomas,assist.overseer forOrton hving Robert, farmer Pigg Jane (Miss), fa~mer, Stonerigg Martin Thomas, farmer N Drman ThDmas Blaylock, farmer OULTON, see Wigton..