Westmorland. .Ambleside
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.DIRECTORY.J WESTMORLAND. .AMBLESIDE. 13 AMELESIDE, a. small but ancient market town, and J acter. There is also 8 small library of about 800 formerly a township in Grasmere and Windermere volumes and a. rea.din~ room supplied with daily and parishes, was constituted Il. parish 15th September, 1863, weekly papers, magazIDes &c. which is open free to and is the head of a petty sessional division and county visitors. court district, 5 miles north-west from Windermere The Ambleside and District Conservative Club, in the station, on the London and North Western railway, 4 Market place, has well-appointed billiard, reading and 80Uth-east from Grasmere and Rydal lakes, 13 north- smoke rooms, with the usual offices j visitors are ad west from Kendal, 25 south-west from Appleby and 275 mitted upon payment of IS. per week. from London, in the Northern division of the county, .Fairs are held here on Whit Wednesday for cattle j Rendal ward, rural deanery of Ambleside, archdeaconry October 13th for sheep j and October 29th for cattle. of Westmorland and diocese of Carlisle. The market day is on Wednesday. The town is seated on a declivity at the head of Win- The principal hotels are the Queen's, the Salutation dermere lake, in the beautiful vale of Bothay, and and the Windermere Waterhead hotel; the latter stands commands fine views of the lake and valley, the parks of at the head of the lake, and affords a fine general view. Rydal and Brathay, and the varied scenery at the foot The ~echanics' Institute, in the Market place, was of Wansfell Pike and Loughrigg .Fell. It is irregularly founded in 1854: it has a library of about 2,000 volumes built., but has good hotels and numerous lodging-houses, and a reading room supplied with the principal London, and, being centrally situated in the lake district, is much provincial and local daily and weekly newspapers and frequented by tourist.!! and other visitors. Steamers ply monthly magazines &c. j the institute is open to visitors daily from the lake pier to the Windermere (Lake Side) upon a small payment. terminal station, at the south end of the lake, on the Charities.-The Ambleside charity, amounting to about .Furness railway. The river R0thay, flowing out of £170 yearly, derived from property and investments, is Grasmere and through Rydal Water, passes the town on expended in the maintenance of one or more nurses to the west, and after uniting with the Langdale beck, falls attend and nurse sick poor persons in the parish; the into the head of Windermere. The town is lighted surplus income is now accumulating until sufficient has with gas, and supplied with water from the Scandale been obtained to build a cottage hospital. -Jackson's Valley by the Ambleside District Gas and Water Co. gift provides £2 12S. yearly for bread and 8s. for the Rnd is governed by a Local Board of 9 members, formed chapel wardens; Mackreth's, of £2 Ir.S. 4d. yearly, is for 1st January, 1885, under the provisions of the" Public clothing; Braithwaite's, of £1 8s. for distribution in Health Act, ]875" (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55). money; Freeman's, of £1 8s. 8d. founded by will in 1799; The church of St. Mary, erected in ]854, is an edifice Borwick's, about £2 7s. 9d. j and M. Jaekson's, of about of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, 6s. are for tae same purpose.-Borry's charity, consisting naTe, aisles, north and south porches, Wordsworth of about £187 in Consols, founded by deed, is held in chapel at the end of the north aisle, vestry and a tower trust for the yearly outfitting of two girls, and produces at the ~outh-ea.stangle with lofty spire containing a clock £5 128. a year.-George Law Newton, in 1864, left the with chimes and 6 bells: the Wordsworth chapel was interest on £100 for the benefit of St. Mary's Church, erected as a memorial to the distinguished poet, who died and the interest on £10 for the maintenance of the organ. 23rd April, 1850: adjollling the chapel and chancel is an -Mrs. Mary Newton left the interest on £100 towards apsidal vestry, built in 1889 to the memory of Edwal'd the organist's salary, the interest on a further sum of Bnd Mary Brown: the east window is stained, and there £100 towards defraying the expenses uf the altar service, a.re others to John Kelsick, founder of the Free School, and also on £150 towards maintaining the fabric of the d. 1723; the Right Hon. W. E. .Forster P.C., M.P. some- church, and on £20 for the benefit of the ringers. time Chief Secretary for Ireland, d. April, 1885 j Residences.-Bellevue, the residence of John Fleming Benson Harrison esq. a great benefactor to the church, esq. is pleasantly situate on the slope of a lofty hill, to d. 1863; Dora. Balland, d. 1873 j and several more: in the north-east of and overlooking the town; The Knoll, the Wordsworth chapel are memorial windows to the poet the residence of William Henry Hills esq. is a mansion and various members of his family: the church in of local stone, situated amidst a clump of trees and over 1893 underwent extensive alterations and thorough looking the river Rothay; Scale How, at present UTI renovation: it affords 998 sittings. The register dates occupied, is a handsome and imposing mansion of stone. from the year 1642. The living is a vicarage, net yearly situated in extensive grounds, on the eastern side of tbe nIne £110, including 150 acres of glebe with a good Rydal road; Lesketh How, the residence of .Frank residence, erected in ]883, in the gift of St.anley Hughes Mande Taylor Jones esq. J.P. is a handsome mansion of Le Fleming esq. D.L., J.P. and held since 1892 by the Rev. stone erected by the late Dr. Davey, and situated on a Charles James .llayley H.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. slight eminence on the Rydal road. There are also several The chapel of St. Anne, erected in 1812 on the site of other good residences witbin the parish. an older structure, and formerly the parish chapel, but LoUGHRIGG, north-west of the town, is a ridge of now used as a chapel of ease to St. Mary's, is a plain moderate elevation, rising from the west bank of the edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and an em- Rothay to a height of 1,101 feet, surrounded midwayby battled western tower containing a clock and one bell: a pleasant-terraced path; the views obtainable from the there are about 300 sittings. summit are extensive and beautiful, especially on the The Catholic church of Our Lady, 10 the Lake road, west, which includes Loughrigg tarn, the miniature lake is a structure of corrugated iron, consisting of chancel, of Elterwater, beyond these the fells of Langdale, and nave, transepts, north porch and a lady chHpel at the in the distance the pike of Blisco (2,304 feet), Cold Pike south-east angle, and affords about 100 sittings. (2,259 feet), Bowfell (2,960 feet) and Scawfell Pike Shap Cell. St. Norbert's Home School and .Preparatory. (3,208 feet). House for the Noviciate of St. Norbert's Regular Home, STOCK GHYLL is a precipitous wooded valley to the in Lake road, takes it.!! name from the abbey of Shap, north-east of the town, find is traversed by a beck, the which belonged to the Premonstratensian order, by whom waters of which, descending by a series of unequal leaps, this institution has been founded: it was erected in produce the cascade known as .. Stock Ghyll.Force." 1893 at a total cost of nearly £2,CXXJ, and is a building Pre-Roman and Roman remains have been found here; of local slate stone, intended as the nucleus of a future the former include stone and bronze implements, and the prlOry, but is at present conducted as a preparatory latter a camp, coius and miscellaneous antiquities. school for boys and for the noviciate of the priesthood. Near the town is the site of a Roman station, which, The Wesleyan chapel, in Rydal road, opened in 1850, from the remains, appears to have been of considorable has sittings for the 320 persons. importance: its plan is still traceable in the earthworks, 'l'he Assembly Rooms, in Compston road, and opened and foundations of buildings Rnd remains of pottery and at Christmas, 1893, are of local slate stone, and con- other relics have been met with. The Earl of Lonsdale taillS, a large hall for public meetings, balls, concerts, is lord of the manor. Richard Lllther Watson and and entertainments, capable of seating ahout 500 perSOilS: H.obert Jackson Partridgo Criqrs. Jamcs Cbristopher Hill beneath the hall is the drill hall of tie H company Wilson esq. of Low Nook, the trustees of the late 2nd Westmorland Volunteer Battalion of the Border .Matthew Benson Harrison esq. Stanley Hughes Le.Fleming Regiment. esq. J.P., D.L. of Rydal Hall, Col. Gorlfre.Y' Rhodes, of The Young Men's Christian Association, in St. Mary'a Rothay Halme, the ex:ors. of Archibald Davyand Mrs. lane, has a large hall, with 400 sittings, and is US6d for Jane Clark, are the principal landowners. The area is meetings of a literary, educational IIond temperance char- 2,633 acres in Gl'"cl.smere parish, und 1,738 in Windermere.