42 BURNESIDE. "l'ESTMORLAND. [KELLY'S of oak, and the arcades have alternately cylindrical and up to it remain. The population of Burneside ecele- octagonal piers; the carved oak reredos is adorned with siastical parish in 1901 was 1,079. beautifully wroug-ht floral designs, executed by the members of the Burneside carving class; the stained ea~t window was erected by Frederick Gelderd­ STRICKLAND KETEL is a township, on the Kendal Somervell esq. to the memory of his first wife; and Windermere line of railway, which has a station the stained west window was presented by Mr. John called Burneside in this township, 2 miles north-west Steele of Ivy Cottage: in the north aisle is a memorial from Kendal, and is situated on the river Kent. window erected by the parishioners to the late Mrs. Here is the Bryce Memorial Institute, erected by the Cropper, and in the south aisle is a stained window trustees of the late John Bryce esg. of Burneside, and given by the old scholars of the Burneside schuul, and opened in 1898 as a place for social meeting, reading a mural tablet to James Bateman esq. and his wife, rooms, games and classes. The extensive paper mills late of Tolson Hall, erected by their only surviving of Messrs. JamBS Cropper and Co. Limited aTe also son: the church is heated by hot-water pipes, the heat­ situated in this township. Fisher's charities pro­ mg apparatus being in the crypt beneath the vestry: vide £2 128. for bread and £4 for a poor widow. there are 400 sittings. The register of baptisms and The Great Sattherey estate of 17 acres, in the marriages dates from 1717, and of burials from 1826. hands of official trustees, and now invested in Consols, The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £250, with produces about £27 yearly, of which £3 6s. 8d. is for residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1905 the vicar, and the remainder for distribution in money. by the Rev. John Sinker. Burneside (formerly Burnes­ Jenning's gift of about £121 in Consols, left by will in head) Hall or Manor house, at the junction of the Kent 1830, provides £3 6s. yearly for the parish clerk. The and Sprint, 2 miles north from Kendal, is now ruinous, poor's stock amounts to about £3 a year. Newby's but in the 13th century was the seat of the family of charity of £2 yearly is for education. These charities de Burneshead, thEm lords of the manor; subsequently are shared in part with Strickland Roger. Ellergreen, by the marriage in the following century of Margaret, a mansion of stone, erected in 1848, is the residence of only daughter and heir of Gilbert de Burneshead, to Charles James Cropper esq. D.L., J.P.; it stands in Richard de Belling-ham, the estate was transferred to about 4! acres of beautiful grounds, and commands Bn that family, who were of Tyneside, Northumberland, extensive prospect. Tolson Hall, part of the Ellergreen and afterwards knights and baronets of Helsington in estate, at present the residence of Miss Cropper, was Kendal: the Hall continued in the occupation of the built in 1638 by Thomas Tolson, one of the first manu­ Bellinghams until the early part of the 16th century, facturers of tobacco in this country. In the corridor when it was sold by Sir Robert Bellingham kt. to Sir are some curious stained windows, depicting the early Thomas Clifford; after passing through other hands, use of tobacco. There is an oak panelled room bear­ it was for long held by the Braithwaites, at a later ing the date 1638, and in the room above, an old stone periods baronets; about the middle of the 18th centurv and plaster fireplace, with the initials T. A. T. (Thomas they disposed of the estate, which was then broken up, and Ann Tolson) and C. R. 1638 (Carolus Rex). Th& and the Hall eventually became the property of the walls of this portion of the hall are 5' feet in thickness family of TIraddyll, of whom it was purchased in 1842 and a hollow is shown in which might have been a by the late John Brunskill esq. of Lambrigg Foot, and hiding place for a priest. On the hill above the house now belongs to the family of the late Stephen Brunskill is an obelisk, erected after the battle of Leipsig, by the esq. J.P. of Castle Meadows, Kendal. The Hall, as now late James Bateman esq. in honour of William Pitt. existing, appears to be chiefly of 15th century date, and Bannel Head, the residence of Robert Richmond esq. consists of a large rectangular tower, now ruinous, on i!!l a mansion of stone, standing in a park of 80 acres the north; a central block, originally the banqueting to the west of the Windermere road. The Earl of Lons­ hall, adjoining it on the south side; and beyond this dale is lord of the manor, and Charles James Cropper a transverse block standing- east and west; from the esq. D.L., J.P. is the chief landowner. The soil is north-west angle of this block, a curtain wall, about chiefly sandy; subsoil, limestone rock in parts, the rest 70 feet in length, ran out obliquely to the gatehouse, clayey. The chief crops are turnips and potatoes. The which is still standing, together with part of the seg­ area of Strickland Ketel is 2,340 acres of land and 20 of mental shaped wall which was continued from east­ water; rateable value, £6,454; the population in 1901 wards until it joined the great square inclosure on the was 706. north face of the tower: the tower itself, now overgrown with ivy, is about 45 by 30 feet, and when complete, Parish Clerk, John Cunningham. consisted of three storeys; the basement is somewhat unusually constructed with two vaulted chambers, Post, M. O. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., E. D. &; A. & I. divided by a passage leading from the lower hall to the office. John Conningham, sub-postmaster. Letters inclosure just mentioned; a newel staircase led to the through Kendal arrive at 6.25 a.m. &; 3.20 p.rn.; dis­ solar, or first floor, and thence to the battlements, but patched at II·40 a.m. &- 6.5& 9.13 p.m. to Carnforth. both roof and parapet are wanting; it has recently been No delivery of letters on sunday reopened from the ground to the first floor, but the Railway Station, Thomas William Goodwin, station mstr top portion is still blocked: the central portion origin­ ally comprised a ground floor, and over it the banquet­ ing hall. 25~ by 22 feet; this portion of the house has STRICKLAND ROGER is a township in the parish of been considerably modernized, and the banqueting hall Burneside, bounded on the east by the river Sprint, and is now a bedroom, but retains a massive oak screen, on the west by the river Kent, 2 miles north from Ken­ of the 16th century,with heavy cornice and deeply re­ dal, the nearest railway station being in Strickland cessed panels; here also is a fine carved oak bedstead Ketel and called "Burneside." The poor's money with recesse>d panels in the head: south of the banquet­ amGunts to £7 4s. yearly; Atkinson's dole of £1 is also ing hall, on the other side of the landing, ami standincy distributed, and this township further shares in the over the former kitchen, was the withdrawing room," charities of Strickland Ketel. Here is a woollen factol"l'",• originally 23 by 18 feet, but now divided into t'wo bed­ and also a valve house in connection with the ne'" rooms; a portion of the ornamental plaster ceiling and scheme for the supply of water from Thirlmcre to Man­ cornice still remains; eastward of the withdrawincy,.. chester. The Earl of Lonsdale is lord of the manor, room, the doorway of which is now stopped up, is a and Charles James Cropper esq. chief landowner. The long apartment, 24! by 14~ feet, with a good east soil is chiefly sandy; subsoil, clayey. The chief cropS window and an oak roof; traces of wall painting have are potatoes, turnips hay and oats and some land in been met with here, and it is believed to have been pacture. The area is 3,165 acres of land and 35 of a domestic chap!'l: west of the withdrawing room is a water; rateable value, £5,832; the population in 1901 small room, la feet by 8 feet, now used as a sitting was 373. room: all these apartments are built over others, in part vaulted, and are reached from the barmekin or court­ Letters through Kenda!' Burneside is the nearest pos', yard by a stair: the walls generally are about 3~ feet money order & telegraph office thick: the present proprietor has had the lower hall raised about 2 fE'et; the upper one is therefore bv so The children of this place attend the school at Skels­ so much diminished in height: the gatehouse, still in mergh good preservation, is entered through an archway, 8 feet in width, with a stone seat on either side; midway are School, Burneside (mixed), for both townships, endowed ponderous oaken gates, with a wicket door; the struc­ with about £24 a year, derived from a rent-charge &i ture includes a porter's lodge and ,a room over it, and £850 invested in Consols; the school will hold 205 adjoining is a portion of the courtyard wall, now, with­ children; average attendance, 171; Harry Legge, out it!'! crenellated parapet, about 12 feet in height: master the alure, or rampart walk is 4 feet wide and the steps