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Lee Gate were approaches to Selside Hall, and Meal ing of a house & about 51 acres of land, now pro­ Bank, Edge Bank and Outer Bank, or Otter Bank, are ducing [52 ros. yearly, & subsequently endowed with probably so named in reference to the Hall, altSkelsmergh. The trustees of attending the schools of Selside or Skelsmergh; the the late Col. Josceline Fitzroy Bagot M.P. of Levens school will hold 95 children; average attendance, 49 ; Hall, who are lords of the manor, Lady Henry CaT"en­ Frederick G. Hudson, master dish Bentinck, of Underley Hall, Sydney Roden Fother­ gill esq. J.P. of Strickland Kettel, Henry Anthony FAWCETT FOREST is a township in Selside eccle­ Tailyour Shepherd and Ralph Riddle Blount are chief siastical parish, 6 miles north from Kendal, 6! miles landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, sammel. The south-west from Orton and 6 south from Shap station art'a of Whitwell and Selside township is 3,383 actes on the London and North Western railway; it is sur­ of land and 4 of water; rateable value, £3,243; the rounded by wild and mountainous scenery, and com- p.:Jpulation in 19II was 212, and of Selside ecclesiastical 1 prises a few scattered farmhouses. The manor, parish, 242. anciently ca.lled " Fauside," was in the 12th century I given by William de Lancastre to Byland Abbey, in Post k T. Office, Watchgate.-Japheth M. Thompson, Yorkshire. Forest Hall, an antique residence p~easantly sub-postmaster. Open 8 a.m. to B p.m. ; sundays, situated, is now occupied as a farmhouse, the remaining 8.30 to 10 a.m. ; letters through Kendal, arrive at 7.50 a.m.; dispatched at 5.15 p.m. week days only. portion of a more ancient hall on the same site is now Kendal & Burneside are the nearest money order used as a stable. The area is 3,936 acres ; rateable value, [901 ; population in rgu, 30. offices · High Borrow Bridge, in Fawcett Forest township, con- Free Sch()ol (boys & girls), built in 1793, rebuilt in 1 tains a house, once an inn, called the "Bay Horse," and 1831, & entirely re-built in 1897, & endowed by John 1 then a noted stopping place fQr coaches and other Kitching in 1730 with the- Biggersbank estate, consist- I vehicles running between Kendal and Carlisle.

SELSIDE. Dixon James, farmer, Kit crag 1 Thompson Japheth M. bla.cksmith, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dixon 'l'hos. frmr.High Biggers bank Post office, Watchgate Clarke Rev. Joseph James M.A. The Forster GPorge, farmer, Sel.side hall Turner Henry, farmr. Gateside house Vicarage Grisdale George, farmer, Yoad pot Walker Thos. farmer,East-above park Fothergill Sydney Roden M.A., J.P. Jenk~nsonHWm(M.Plo)ugh inn,Lo& farmer Withers William, farmer, Dry how Low Bridge house Jenmngs y. rs. , frmr. ng we 11 Wood Joseph, farmer, Cooper house Gt·Imston Mrs. Mozergh ho Jennings Jas. frmr. Low Biggersbank FAWCETT FOREST. Martindale Mrs. West view Knowles Roger, farmer, Bank house Martindale Bolton, farmer, Crake hall Blenkinship John, farm bailiff t.o COMMERCIAL. MartindaleWm.frmr.West Above park Joseph Wood esq. Bannisdale head Barnes Thomas (Mrs.), farmer, High Miles Adam, farmer, Whitwell Foldj; Hack 1'homas, farmer, Hollowgate Mozergh Miles John, farmer, Watchgate Irving Tom, farmer, Forest hall Batoman William, farmer, Poppy Ridding Thomas, farmer, Steel croft Kitching Robt. frmr.Borrowdale head Birkett Matthew, frmr.Goodhamscales Rowlandson Richard Gibson, farmer, iVIattinson John, fal'mer, Hause foot Blenkbarn William Henry, farmer, Candy slack Wharton Jn. frmr.High Borrowbridge South Gate side 1 Sutton John, farmer, Bowthwaite Wharton Thomas, farmer, Mart close SHAP is an extensive and mountainous parieh and The Shap Granite Co. Limited have large quarries town, consisting chiefly of detached houses extending about two miles south of the town, and employ a large for about a mile on the high road from Carlisle to number of men. Kendal and Lancas~er, witTI a station on the main line At Shap Summit, near the granite quarries, the "'f the London and North Western railway, and is w! London and North Western railway reachet~ the highest miles south-south-east from Penrith, 13 west-i!outJh-west. point of its system in England. from A.ppl-eby, 16 north-by-ea.st from Kendal by road Charities :-The Poor's Land of 32 acres, commonly or 20! by rail, 28! south-east from Carlisle, 39 north called the "Poor Hagg," and Moor Clase allotment pro­ from Lancaster and 269! by rail and 276 by road from duce £17 a year for distribution in money on St. London, in the Northern division of the county, West Thomas's day, less 7s. 6d. for education; Rawes's charity ward, petty sessional division and union of the West of about £8 15s. yearly, derived from £340 in Consols, Ward, county court district of Penrith, rural deanery provides £3 IIS. for educational purposes, and is applied of Lowther and archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle: to the purchase of prizes for children attending the the t-own, from its elevated and expojjed position, is school in the parish and £5 4s. for bread; Cooper's exceedingly bleak and cold in winter, but in summer benefaction, founded by a will in 1833, affords £1 6s. it is much frequented by visitors for its pure air and for bread and £1 Ss. for distribution in money on St. fine mountain scenery; the river Lowther flows through Thomas's day; the bread charities are distributed ea~h the parish, and the Leeth stream takes its rise near Sunday morning after divine servJce; the gift in 1692 the town; the water supply is derivoo from springs in of Philip, 4th baron Wharton, provides 6 bibles and 6 the surr{)unding hills, and is brought to the town by prayer books for distribution among the children of gravitation; the town is lighted with petrol lamps by thi~ pari!lh. the Urban District Council. Near Shap, stone celte and other pre-Roman remains have been found, and at Gunnerswell, r! miles north, is By Local Government .Board Order No. 45,299, which a megalit