188 'W"£lTIIY, \YESTliORLAND. W AITBY is a township, and under the provisions of SMARDALE, formerly a small township in the paris·h the "Local Government ...\et, 1894 " (56 and 57 Vict. c. of Kirkby Stephen, was, in 1895, under the provisions 73), was in 1895 formed into a parish, together with of the "Local Government Act, 1894.'' united for civil Smardale township, for civil purposes only, and is in purposes to the township of Waitby, and these two the :Northern division of the county, East Ward petty townships now form the parish of Wait by; it is 1 sessional division and union, county court district of mile west from Waitbv,. and 2/;- miles south-west from Appleby. The township is rl miles west-by-south from Kirl•by Stephen, with a st.ation on the North Eastern Kirkby Stephen, and 1 mile east from Smardale .station railway; the village, lying in a deep vale between Crosby on the North Eastern railway, and now (1914) consists and Ash fells, contains six houses only. Smardale Hall, of but nine houses, although it is supposed to have been now occupied as a farmhouse, is a mansion of the late in early times a market town, and possessed a castle, Tudor or Jacobean period, and was erected by the traces of which are still evident on Castle Carrick Hill, Dalstons, who came into possession of the manor by the e .1d between that eminence and the village traces of a marriage of Sir John Dalston kt. with Frances Warcop, chap~l have bePn IY'Pt with. Georgp Morland Beck esq. one of the two eventual co-heiresses of that familv:• nf. The Lane, Ravenstonedale. is lord of the manor. and the Dalstons became baronets in 1640, but the title Ri~hard B. Thompson Eesq. of Stobars Hall and Isaac vras lost on the death, without male issue, of Sir Sowerby esq. of Winton, are the principal landowners. George Dalston, 4th hart. 7th March, 1765 ; he is The area of the parish is 2,840 acres of land and 7 of said to have permanently resided at the Hall, to which water; rateable value, £2,763; the population in 19II he made substantial repairs, and it has more recently was 93· been renovated by the late Mr. W. H. Wakefield, of Letters throu~h Kirkby Stephen arrive at 7 a.m Kendal (d. 1889); it is a large rectangular structure, Wall Letter Box clPared at 6.30 a.m.; no collection on about 100 feet long and 30 wide, with a high-pitched sundavs• roof, and great drum towers at the angles, all having The Free School (mixed) was built & endowed for this conical roofs, covered with slate and surmounted bv• & the neighbouring township of Smardale in 168o, spherical finials ; on the principal front is an enclosed by Mr. James Highmoore, a native of Waitby, & courtyard. This manor belonged in the reign of clothwor);er & citizen of London, as appears by an Edward I. to the de Smardale family, but was sold inscription over the porch window: the school was by them in 1290 to the Hellbecks, of Hellbeck, from rebuilt in 1867 by subscription; the sum of £4oo, whom. in 1385, it went to the Warcops, and afterwards :given for the endowment, was invested in the purchase to the Dalstons, and is now the property of George '()f land at Cantleythwaite, near Sedbergh, since sold ; Morland Beck esq. of The Lane, Ravenstonedale, who, & the proceeds, invested in Consols, now produce with Gerard E. Thompson esq. of Stobars Hall, is a .£64 ss. yearly, of which the sum of £5 4s. is distri­ chief landowner. buted in bread to poor persons at Kirkby Stephen, the rest being allotted to the mistress; £2o yearly Letters through Kirkby Stephen arrive at 7 a.m i~ also applied to the foundation of scholarships of Wall Let.ter Box cleared at 6.50 a.m not more than £3 each, yearly value, tenable at Kirkby Stephen Grammar School or some other High The children Qf Smardale attend the school at Waitby­ Grade school; the school will hold 20 children ; aver­ Railway Station, Thomas Hobson Elders, station master -age attendance, 12; Mrs. Margaret Ethel Regan, mist WA.ITBY. Cherry Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Waitbyl SMARDALE. crossing Beck Thomas Hewetson, farmer3 COMMERCIAL. Hastwell Frank & James, farmers Smardale hall Armstrong Wm. farmer, Riddlesay Nixon James, farmer, Stripes Brunskill Mary (Mrs.) & Son, farmrs. Atkinson Thomas, farmer Tavlor• James, farmer, Leazes Home farm "Bowron John Thoma~ farmer Coates Joseph Allan, farmer, Smar- dale mill WARCOP is a parish and village, in the Northern date from the year I597· The living is a vicarage, net division of the county, petty sessional division and yearly value £215, in the gift of James Anstey union of the West ward, county court district of Appleby Wild esq. and Mrs. Wild, and held since 1901 by the and in the rural deanery of Appleby and Kirkby Rev. Seymour Shaw. The vicarage house, close to the Stephen and archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle. The church, is built upon part of the site of medireval forti­ village is beautifully seated on the right or east bank fications of considerable extent, the trenches· and em­ of the river Eden, and at the confluence of the Hayber bankments of which still exist, and it has been supposed :and Flitholme becks, and has a station on the Kirkby by some that the house itself was moated round. There Stephen and Penrith section of the North Eastern rail- is a Wesleyan chapel, bui~t in 1872, and a Wesleyan way; it is 3 miles west from Brough, 5 north from Association chapel, erected in 1844. A cemetery of half Kirkby Stephen and 5 south-east from Appleby. The an acre was formed at Surdas in 1883, at a cost of church of St. Columba is an ancient edifice of stone in £r82, but has no mortuary chapel; it is under the the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of control of the Parish Council. There are various small three bays, south aisle, transepts, south porch and a charities, amounting in all to about £5 yearly, which turret containing 2 bells: the chancel, rebuilt in r855 su:n is distributed in money. Castle hill, in the south­ by the lord of the manor, as lay rector, has a piscina east part of the parish, is supposed to be the site of a and sedilia, and contains memorial windows erected by large fortress once covering more than an acre of Mrs. Preston, to her husband and hro children, one to ground; the ruins have long since disappPared, a great Capt. Henry Preston, 9oth Foot, who fell within the portion of material having been used in the erection of Redan, at the storming of Sebastopol, 8th Sept. r855. the tower of the neighbouring church of Kirl•by and another to Moyes Preston, killed at the relief of :-\tPphen, erected betVI'een the ~·ears 1598 and 16o6. Lucknow, 25 S(>pt. 1857: the north transept, also called Warcop Tower, once a fortified structure, is now used the " Burton porch," was anciently a chapel and has a as a farm residence. At a place now called KIRK­ piscina and two stained windows: the south transept, I STEADS, distant about 200 yards from the site of the of St. John's aisle, has two memorial windo'" s : in 1526, castle, there was anciently a chapel, and many frag­ Edward Hilton B.D. of Queen's College, Oxford, rector ments of polished freestone have been from time to of Blechingdon, Oxon (1507-15), left a sum of money for time dug up on this spot. The ancient cross, removed Lhe performance of mortuary services in the chapel of on the enclosure of the common at the expense of the the north transept: he was rector of St. Milfred, Bread lord of the manor, is now represented by a maypole, street, London, from 1515 till his death, 14th Jan. 1530, which is fixed on the original stone steps of the cross and wail there buried: on the north side was once a , near the old smithy at the east end of the village; the chapel attached to the manor: in the nave is a memorial steps were removed here on the enclosure of the window erected in 1893 by Mrs. Turner, of Eden Gate. common. On Brough hill, in this parish, is held the to three of her children; the Vfest window is also :filled largest fair in the north of England (for further men~ with stained glass, and there is a handsome mural tion of which see Brough), and on the hills to the north monument of marble, erected by members of the Madras and south are traces of Druidical templ€s. The parish Civil Service to James Wilkinson Breeks esq. a native feast, held annually on St. Peter's day, 29th of June. of this parish, who died at Ootacamund, India, 6th is connected with the observance of a very ancient June, 1872: there is also a stained window to the custom called "Rush Bearing," which seems peculiar to memory of Braithwaite Chamley, captain of the 17th this and the adjoining parishes of Great Musgrave, Lancers, who died in 1865: the pulpit, of carved oak, is Ambleside and Grasmere, where ten or twelve couple of also a memorial: the church affords 400 sittings. In young girls in their holiday attire form a procession. the churchyard is a recumbent female effigy of red each wearing a crown of flowers on her head, and, sandstone, and t·he remains of a cross.