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The Urban n~:strict Council have erected a substantial Council Chamber at the north end of the town. It was completed in 1898, at a cost of £1,500, and is fitted up with all requisite offices and rooms, and fire station on land adjoining. The Free Library occupies one portion of the chamber. It is in possession of 2,600 volumes. The town is lighted by oil, but it is proposed to substitute gas in the near future. The Water Supply is obtained from Cogra Moss, about six miles distant, at an elevation of 7 44 feet above sea level. The holding capacity of the reservoir is about 90,000,000 gallons, and the daily supply 16,000 gallons. The Frizington Working Men's Reading and Recreation Room, erected in 1862, at a cost of £600, is entirely self supporting. The members, of whom there are about 180, subscribe 4s. each annually. The library attached· contains about 300 volumes. St. Joseph's Reading and Recreation Room, opened in 1893, has a membership of 80, who each pay ls. quarterly. The Liberal and Conservative Associations also have rooms in the town. . In Main Street are situated the headquarters of the 3rd Vol. Batt. Border Regiment. Frizington is in railway communication with by a branch line of the L. & N. W. and Furness Joint Co's. The station is at Parkside. At a place called Crosslacon, in this township, are the remains of an ancient oross of rude workmanship, about 3t feet high. Tradition tells us that in the olden time it was customary to read a portion of the burial service here over the corpse on its way to interment at St. Bees, and an indentation on the top of the cross is said to have been made to support the book during the reading of the prayers. On the Cringlehall estate is a chalybeate spring, said to possess medicinal properties.

WHILLIMOOR. This township was formerly, as the name implies, moor or open common. The houses are mostly farms, scattered over the district. The land is generally sterile, and is still in many places covered with heath or ling. The manorial rights and privileges belong to the Earl of Lonsdale, who is also an extensive landowner. When the commons of this and townships were divided, in 1820, there were 200 acres allotted to the Bishop of Chester, as rector of the parish, in lieu of the tithes for Whillimoor, and 190 acres for Arlecdon. These were transferred to the Bishop of Carlisle when this portion of Curnberland was detached from the Chester diocese and given to Carlisle. The population is about 50. At one time this place obtained considetable celebrity for cheese made from skimmed milk. Hence the origin of the saying, still beard in West , •~ Brown Geordie and Whillimoor wang," viz., barley cake and Whillimoor cheese.

ARLECDON TOWNSHIP. Post Office at J. Seville's, Arlecdon Parks Road. Letters arrive via at 9-30 a.m., and are despatched at 4-35 p.m. No Sunday business.

Anderson J oseph G., vict., Stork Hotel, Rowrah 1 H oodless J\lrs., shopkeeper, As by Asby Colliery Oo., Ltd., Asby . Hosken Benjamin, Spittal square Atkinson Joseph, spade manufacturer, Asby Irving '.Villiam, gardener, 25 Arlecdon road Bewick Mrs. Ann, Spittal square J ames John, grocer, etc., Arlecdon road Boar,l Schools ; William J ones, head master Lancaster Parker, shopkeeper, Asby Bowness Mrs. H., milk dlr, Arlecdon Parks rd Markham Wil iam, butcher, Rowrah Bowness T., vict., Greyhound Inn, Winder Mossop Mrs. Elizabeth, vict., Sun Inn Branthwaite Jonathan, boot and shoe maker, Parsley Wm., grocer, etc., 51 Arlecdon Parks rd etc.l 50 Arlccdon Parks road Ray John, agent and station master, Branthwaite William, Asby road, Asby Arlecdon Goods station Brown ~lary, shopkeeper, Arlecdon Parks road Richardson Timothy, Waterloo villa Burdett Mrs. E _, H akodadi Robinson John, parish clerk, Arlecdon house Clealor Moo1· Co-operativ~ Society, Rowrah; Robinson Thos., station master, Winder station Managers (grocery), John Fares ter ; (drapery), Routledge Robert, surgeon, Rowrah John ~,oster Routledge Mr. Thomas, Tilekiln cottage, Holliday James, blacksmith and vict., Black Arlecdon Pa;rks road Cock Inn, Asby 1 Seville J., Post office, Arlecdon Parks road