140 ClWSSCAXO~BY. CUMBER LAND. [ KLLL\ 's Working Men's Reading Room (Thos. 1 Whitehouse Paul, Birkby lodge Sibson Isaac, farmer Penrice, hon. sec) COMMEBCIA.L. Smith William, farmer Bell IJaniel, farmer Walls Bernard, market gardener BIRKBY. Dixon Joseph & Sons, farmers Clark John Ellen Grove Laundry (Jn. Nixon, sec) Norman Major John Fee James, miller, Birkby mill BULLGILL. Ritson Mrs. John, Ellen bank McGraa Tom S. assistant overseer, :Maryport Co-operativP Industrial So Ritson Robert B.A. Ellen banli Ellen Grove villa ciety Limited, Crosby villa Taylor Mrs. Birkby house Marston Wm. farm bailiff to John Ostle Wm. sub-postmaster & shopkpr "Temple Mrs. Ellen grove Pape esq Troughear Joseph, shopkpr.Crosby vil CROSTHWAITE is a parish in the Mid division of Braithwaite station on the Cockermouth, Keswick and the county, petty sessional division of Keswick, union of Penrith railwav.• The neiO"hbourinO"e e heights command Cockermouth, ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, county O"OOd views of the lakes of Derwentwater and Bassen- court district of Keswick, rural deanery of Keswick, thwaite. The Derwentwater Hotel here is a good archdeaconry of Westmorland and diocese of Carlisle,. hostelry. Lord Leconfield, who is lord of the manor, and was formerly one of thE.' largest parishes in the Lake Lord Rochdale, J. S. Birkett esq. Mr. J. S. Barker district, being zo miles in length and 8 in breadth, and Mr$. Fox are the principal landowners. The area stretc.hino- westward from Helvellyn and Great Dodd of the township of Above-Derwent is 13,87~ acres of to Great" Gable, Grassmoor, Grisedale Pike, and other land and 881 of water; rateable value, £9,321; popula mountains, and northward from the confines of West tion in rgn, 1,047. m orland to Skiddaw and Saddleback, and containing the Ullock is a hamlet. two beautiful lakes of Derwentwater and Thirlmere, Post, M. 0. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Offic~ with that of l3assenthwaite at its north-western ex -Miss Elizabeth M'lntosh, sub-postmistress. Letters tremity. The parish, anciently in the diocese of Glas arrive from Keswick at 7.50 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; dis gow, or Strath Clyde, is now divided into the following patched at 8.35 & 10.45 a.m. & 2, 5.30 & 7·30 p.m. ecclE.'siastical districts, in addition to that remaining except sunday attached to the mother church of St. Kentigern, which is locally in Keswick, viz. :-St. John's, Thornthwaite, U.NDERSKIDDA W is a township, comprising the Newlands, Borrowdale and Wythburn, and is otherwise hamlets of Great Crosthwaite, Applethwaite and :Mill divided into five townships, comprising Above-Derwent, beck, I mile north-east from Keswick, and commands Borrowd.ale, Keswick, Castlerigg St. John's and Wyth verv O"OOd views of the lakes of Derwentwater and burn and Underskiddaw, Borrowdale, Keswick and Bassenthwaite. In this township stands the parish Wythburn, will be found under separate headings. church of Great Crosthwaite, which is described under Sir J. Banks's Charity comprises 195a. 3r. 33P· of Keswick. The church Sunday school was built in 1833 land, tolls &c. about £gs6 in Consols, 20a. or. 3P· of bv the late James Stanger esq. Windebrow is the resi land (Ogle"s gift), bought for £soo stock from sale of dence of Major Edward Wilfred Spedding R.A. ; The workhouse; the total income amounts to about £254, Red House of Gordon Falcon esq. and Lyzwick Hall of
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