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DIRECTORY.] CUMBERLAND. W .1!. T BERAL. 273 WESTWARD is a parish, 3 miles south-east from may be traced. Charities :-The schools' charity of 2 Wigton, in the Mid division of the county, ward of acres of land produces £9 yearly; the charities invested Allerdale-below-Derwent, union, county court district in Consols are Barwise's of [I 16s. Sd. yearly, Jackson's .and petty sessional division of Wigton, rural deanery of charity is now lost, Jefferson's of [295 produces £8 Wigton and archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle. It is 2s. 8d. yearly, Pape's [2o, bequeathed in 1778, pro bounded on the south and west by Caldbeck and Bolton duces I IS. 4d. a year, Hodgson's of [45, bequeathed parishes, having on its eastern limits the stream which in 185o, produces £I ss. Bd. yearly, there is also forms the Wampool river, and on its southern boundary Hodge's bequest of £6oo, yielding £2I yearly. These the brooks that give rise to the river Waver. The charities are now chiefly administered by the Board of (:hurch of St. Hilda, which stands on an elevated plot Education. Isle Kirk Hall, about I mile west of the llf land called Church hill, in the Stoneraise division church, and now a farmhouse, was once the site of a ()f the parish, is a small and plain edifice of stone, hermitage or religious house, dedicated to St. Hilda, and eonsisting cf chancel, nave, west porch, and turret granted by King John to the abbey of Holme Cultram. containing one bell : the stained east window is a Here are excellent quarries of red freestone and slate; memorial to William Skelton, d. 3 Sept. 1885, and the higher grounds abound with limestone. Several his two sons, William Kirkup Skelton, d. 22 April, seams of coal also exist and there are traces of iron ore. I867, and John Skelton, d. 8 Jan. I866. The church Lord Leconfield, who is lord of the manor, several resi was restored subsequent to 1873, at a cost of £6oo, and dent yeoman, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are the interior iu I896 at a cost of £2oo: there are 185 the principal landowners. The soil, which is in a high sittings. The register dates from the year I6os. The state of cultivation, consists chiefly of a strong fertile living is a vicarage, assigned to be held by a minor clay, with a portion of sand in Woodside quarter, and canon of Carlisle, 6 Feb. 1872, net yearly value £275, produces excellent crops of wheat, oats &;c. The sub with residence and about 45 acres of glebe, in the gift soil is clay. The area of the civil parish of Westward, of the Dean and Chapter of Carli8le, and held since 1899 including Rosley, is 12,991 acres of land and 12 of by the Rev. Thomas William Melrose, of Trinity College, water; rateable value, [12,774; the population in 1901 Dublin, and Durham University. Old Carlisle, about was 917 (including Rosley) in the civil parish and 425 1! miles north of the church, and about the same in the ecclesiastical parish. distance south of Wigton, is the site of the extensive Roman station, Olenacum, situated on a Roman road BROCKLEBANK is a hamlet 6 miles south from leading from Carlisle to Ellenborough: the camp, be- W1gton. sides its walls, the ruins of which remain, was defended by an outer vallum, with a ditch on either side of it ; STONER.A.ISE is also a hamlet about 4 miles south the four gateways of the station are still traceable, from Wigton. Westward Parks is another hamlet. 1lnd there are considerable remains of its interior and Letters by foot messenger from Wigton arrive at about ~xterior buildings, though now ruinous, and overgrown with grass and bushes: sacrificial instruments, images, 9 a.m statues, altars, coins &c. have been found here in con Wall Letter Box, Red Dial hotel. cleared at 8.30 a.m. & 'Siderahle numbers and include an altar of the time of 2.30 & 5.15 p.m. Wigton is the nearest money order Commodus, A.D. 19I, erected by the Ala Augusta, and &.telegraph office now at Lowther Castle. There are also in the parish Public Elementary School, Westward, enlarged in I828, many vestiges of encampments, particularly a place for So children; average attendance, 55; Robert White 'Called "The Height," where several extensive trenches .A.damson, master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Douthwaite Robt. farmer,Brocklebank Key William, farmer, Forrestfold, Dudding Hy. .Arthur, Greenhill house Fenwick Joseph, farmer,Wallace lane, Stoneraise Johnston Miss, Rutherford house, Brocklebank Little John, farmer, Intake, Stone- Brocklebank Graham William, farmer, Watch hill raise & Brocklebank Mark J. Salisbury, Solway view, Grindley William, farmer, Ghyll, Lowes Joseph William, farmer, High· Brocklebank Brocklebank hall, Stoneraise Melrose Rev. Thomas William, The Haig Thomas, farmer, Greenhill Maguire Thos. farmer, Brocklebank Vicarage Harrington Jas, farmer, Brocklebank Marrs George, farmer, Forresterfold, Wilkinson Mrs. Elizabeth, Overgreen Hetherington Joseph, farmer,Cunning Stoneraise Garth Mitchelson Jas. farmer, Church hill COMMERCIAL. Hewetson Thomas, Sun inn,Brownrigg Pattinson Jn. farmer, Brownrigg ho Bainbridge George, farmer & yeoman, Hill William, farmer & assistant over- Pattinson Temple, farmer, Cleagreen Stoneraise Place seer, Cleahall, Brocklebank Scott Wilkinson, farmer, Churchhill Barker Helen (Miss), Red Dial hotel. Hod~son Robert & Thomas, farmers, Skelton Mary(Mrs.),shopkpr. Red dial Stoneraise Wavergillhead Thomlinson Jacob, farmer, Syke Barnes Robert Thompson, farmer, Hodgson John, farmer, Greemigg Thompson Isaac, farmer, Old Carlisle Cottage farm, Red Dial Hope William, farmer, Gerrard ho. Twentyman John, farmer, Stoneraise Barnes William, farmer & yeoman, Stoneraise & Hilltop, Brocklebank Watson Joseph, farmer, Westward Street, Stoneraise & The Mire Hope William, jun. farmer, Wiza Parks & Reathwaite, Stoneraise Barnee Wm.Je:fferson,frmr.Forest hall Huddart Thomas, farmer, Cleamire, Williamson Jonathan, farmer, Rays lo Barwise John, farmer, Studfold Brocklebank Willis Susannah ~rs.), farmer, Birkett George, farmer, Wallace lane, Johnston William, farmer, Bank Brocklebank Brocklebank green, Brocklebank Wills John, farmer, Parsonbridge "Brough John, farmer, Oxrigg Jopson William, blacksmith, Red dial Wood Joseph, fa1·mer, Bank Cornthwaite Thomas, farmer, Isle Kenney John, dairyman, Old Carlisle Workman Messrs.farmers,Brocklebank Kirk hall, Stoneraise & Beckbottom WETHERAT. is a picturesque village and parish, nave of four bays, north aisle, a chapel on the north on the steep banks of the Eden, with a station on the side of the chancel, and a tower containing 2 bells and 'Carlisle and Newcastle section of the :North Eastern a clock, which was provided in 1897 as a memorial of railway, 1~ miles north-east from Cumwhinton station Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The chancel was on the St-ttle and Carlisle section of the Midland rail rebuilt in 1872, from designs by Mr. J. Withers, way, and 4! east-south-east from Carlisle, in the architect, at the cost of the Dean and Chapter of NorthPrn rlivision of the county, Cumberland ward, and Carlisle, and the parishioners; the tower, erected in petty sessional division, union and county court district 1760, was rebuilt and the nave effectively restored in of Carlisle, rural deanery of Carlisle south, and arch 1882, at a cost of £2,307, defrayed by subscription: deaconry and diocese of Carlisle. The river is here the chapel, added in I79I, and built on the founda crossed by a handsome bridge on the Newcastle and tions of the family mausoleum of the Howards of Carlisle branch of the North Eastern railwav.• The Corby, contains several splendid and elaborately wrought bridge was finished in 1834, and bears a tablet to Henry monuments to members of that family, and another, Howard esq. of Corby Castle, who laid its foundation with an exquisite group in white marble, by Nollekens, sco:!P in I83o: it consists of five semi-circular arches of to the Hon. Maria (Archer), 3rd daughter of Andrew, 1io ft-ct spai1, elevated about roo feet from the surface 2nd and last Baron Archer of Umberslade, and wife of the water, and the entire length is about 625 feet; of HPnry Howard esq. of Corby; she died 9 Nov. 1780: adjoining the bridge is a balcony used by foot passen in the north aisle are recumbent effigies of Sir Richard gers. Crossing the valley of Corby Beck is another fine Salkeld, kni~hted in I487, and Jane his wife; he was bridge, 480 feet in leng-th, and consisting of seven arches govt>rnor of Carlisle, and died in ISoo: the church affords of 40 feet span each. The church of the Holy Trinity is 288 sittings. The register dates from the year I674· a building of stone, originally Norman, but now chieflv The living is a rectory, with that of Warwick annexed in the Perpendicular style, and consisting of chancel, joint net yearly value [26r (and [I20 for a curate), COMB. 18 .