46 BORROWDALE. CUMBERLAND. (KELLY'~ are 26o sittings. The registers of baptisms and burials 363 of water; rateable value, £3.351 ; the population in date from 1775; and of marriages from 1865. The 1901 was 497· living is a vicarage, net yearly value about £150, in­ Sexton, John Fleming, Stonethwaite. cluding 76 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Rosthwaite.-Mrs. Jane Porter, the vicar of Crosthwaite, and held since 1910 by the sub-postmistress. Letters through Keswick arrive at Rev. John Thomas Ashworth M.A., B.C.L. of Brasenose 9.30 a.m.; dispatched at 3·55 p.m. from 16th May to College, Oxford, who is also incumbent of Grange-in­ 3oth Sept.; arrive at 9.30 a.m. & 5.15 p.m.; dis­ Borrowdale in this parish. The Talley of Borro\{dale, one patched at 3·55 & 6.15 p.m.; no sunday delivery of of the most beautiful and picturesque in the whole Lake letters di11trict, is bounded on the east and west by the Wyth­ Wall Letter Bo:xes.-High Lodore, cleared 6.55 p.m.; burn and .Buttermere fells and their accessory ranges, winter 4·45 p.m.; no sunday clearnnce; Seatoller, at interrupted by romantic glens and ravines, through 3.15 p.m.; Smithy, 3.30 p.m. week days only which numerous creeks find their way into the river Mission RQom, Rosthwaite (unsectarian), Frederic Den·ent, which takes its rise on Bowfell, at a height of Darvel, missionary 2,014 feet, and flowing north, and at Seathwaite, slightly Ppblic Elementary School (mixed), built in 1826 & en­ east, passes Seatoller, Rosthwaite and Grange, and falls larged in 1898, for 91 children; average attendance, into the southern head of Derwentwater, nearly oppo­ 38; John Reay, master site the Lodore hotel. The Longstrath beck, rising about half a mile west of the surface of the Derwent, Conveyance. flows to the north-east, but turning sharply to the During the season a coach runs several times daily from ncrth-west at the foot of Greenup Ghyll, runs through the Borrowdale hotel to Keswick station. Coaches also Stonethwaite hamlet and joins the Derwent near Ros­ run from this hotel & from the Lodore & Royal Oak thwaite; the Watendlath beck, an independent stream, hotels, to Buttermere daily, during the season. A.n rises to the west in Blea Tarn (1,562 feet), and de­ omnibus from the Lodore hotel meets the trains at the scending through a :ravine and" past the hamlet of Keswick railway station, & also runs in connection Watendlath, eventually precipitates its waters down a with coaches from Windermere & Ambleside :rocky gorge, between the Gowder and Shepherd's Crags, and thus creates, after heavy :rains, the famous cascade GRA.NGE-lN-BORROWDA.LE is a part of the parish of Lodore, so well known from Southey's amusing of Borrowdale, 4 miles from Keswick station. The rhymes. On the Derwent, near Seathwaite, is a plum- church of Holy Trinity, erected in 186o, by the e:xer­ bago mine, not now worked. Castle Crag is an tions of the late Miss Heathcote (d. 1885), is a build­ eminence rising above the woods on the left or western ing of stone, in a very plain style, and consists of bank of the Derwent, in Borrowdale proper, to a height chancel, nave, porch and a turret containing one bell: of about 2,130 feet, and affords a fine view of the aale. there are 104 sittings. The register of marriages dates The Boulder or Bowder stone, about half a mile further from the year 1879· The living is a perpetual curacy, down, is an immense mass of basaltic or porphyritic net yearly value £28, in the gift of and held since 1900 green stone rock, the top of which is accessible, and by the vicar of Borrow dale. Here is a W esleyan chapel, affords a fine prospect; it is 62 feet in length and 36 erected in 1894· Leyland Langton esq. J.P. of Barrow feet in perpendicular height and 89 feet in circum- House and Mr. Joseph Threlkeld are the principal land­ ference; and contains 23,ooo cubic feet, weighing 1,971 owners. tons 13 cwt. There are four hotels and several lodging houses. Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Ellen Brownlee, sub- Stonethwaite is a hamlet, about half a mile east, and postmistress. Letters through Keswick arrive at 8.30 Rosthwaite is a hamlet about half a mile north of the I a.m. ; dispatched at 4· 2 5 p.m. ; from 16th May to 3oth church. Sir Wilfrid Lawson hart. of Brayton, is lord Sept. arrive at 8.3o a.m. & .4·45 p.m. ; dispatched 4·30 of the manor. Lord Leconfield, John Musgrave esq. of & 6.45 p.m. ; no sunday dehvery of letters Wasdale Hall, Gosforth, and John Simpson esq. of Public Eiementary School, built in 1895, in memory of Hazelbank, are the principal landowners. The land is the late Miss Heathcote, for so children ; average mostly in pasture. The area is r6,3oo acres of land and ' attendance, 20; "Miss Edith Bell, mistress Ashworth Rev. John Thomas M.A., Darvel Frederic, missionary, MCarlisle, the oak timbers of the old room: the stained east win· and 10 north from Wigton, in the Northern division of dow, presented in 1891 by Thomas George Wilson esq. . the county, Cumberland ward and petty se!111ional divi- J.P. of Thistlewood, is a memorial to his parents, John sion, union and county court district of Wigton, :rural Wilson e11q. of Longcroft, in this parish, d. 1833, and deanery of Carlisle North, and archdeaconry and diocese Mary his wife; the church was restored in 1!!91, and an of Carlisle: the parish is about 9 miles in length from organ erected, at a cost of about {,2,562. In 1909 three east t~ west, and 4 in breadth from north to south, and stained lights were inserted in the south window of the is divided into four townships. In summer the place chancel, in memory of the Rev. Samuel Lindow M.A. is much frequented by visitors. The church of St. rector 1889-1908, to whose memory there is also a Michael is an ancient structure in the Early Norman brass tablet near the pulpit, which was placed t~re by and Early English Transitional styles, consisting of his sister, Mrs. Calderwood: there is another brass chancel, nave, north transept, south porch, and a tablet, in memory of the Rev. Samuel Meddlicott ·western turret containing 2 bells, presented by Mrs. M.A. rector r877-188g. There are 300 sittings. The Peter J. lrving, in memory of the late Capt. Peter John register dates from the year 1642. The living is a rec­ Irving: the two old bells, one of which is said to have tory, net yearly value £350, with 358 acres of glebe and been carried off f1·om Scotland by a marauding party residence, in the gift of the Earl of Lonsdale, and held