1. 04 LOWTHEB. WESTMORLAND. loam 'With a subsoil of lime and freestone; Bnd the The following plaees are included in the petty sessionll1 principal crops are hay, wheat and oats. The area is division :-Askham, Bampton, Barton, Birbeck Fells, 809 acres; rateable value £2,624 15s. Bolton, Bretherdale, Brougham,.Cliburn, Clifton, POST, M. o. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Crasby Ravensworth, Eamont Bndge, Hackthorpe, Office.-Thomas Burrow. sub-postmaster. Letters Hardendale, HarLsop, Relton, Keld, King's Meaburn, through Penrith arrive at 6.50 a.m.; dispatched at Langdale, Lowther, Martindale, Maulds Meaburn, Melkinthorpe, Morland, Newby, Orton, Patterdale, 4-40 p.m . Raisbeck, Reagill, Rosgill, Shap, Sleagill, Sleddale, COUNTY M A.OISTRA.TE8 FOR WEST W A.RD Sockbridge, ,Little Strickla.d, , PKT'rY SESSIOIUL DIVIIHON. Thornship, Thrimby, Whale, La. Winder & Yanwath Lowther Endowed National School, Hackthorpe (mixed), Markham Majol' Francis, Morland hall, Penrith, chair- founded in 1638 by Sir John Lowther hart. & hiS" man at Shap uncle, Richard Lowther esq. & endowed with 388 Burton Rev. Canon Clarke W&tkins M..&.. Chburn, Penrith, acres of land & tithes & £8,472 in Consols, now pro- chairman at Hackthorpe ducing £362 yearly & also with £550 in Consols, 1UI a Lonsdale Earl of D.L. Lowther castle, Penrith bUIlding fund; the school, built in 1640 & rebuilt in Brougham & Vaux Lord D.L. Braugham hall, Penrith 1887, will hold 120 children & there are now (1894) Betham John esq. Towcett, Shap R.S.O 90 scholars: it is managed by a body of 8 governors, Burn Richard esq. D.L. Orton hall, Tebay R.S.O the Earl of Lonsdale being chairman: the establish- Cowper Frederick esq. D.L. Carleton hall, Penrith meut of a higher grade school is now (1894) under- Gibson Robert Wilson M.B. Townhead house, Orton, consideration; Thomas Barnard, master Tebll.Y R S.O GibBon Thomas Horatio esq. Orton, Tebay RS.O Melkinthorpe is a township and secluded village in. Graham William esq. D.L. Eden grove, Bolton, Penrith the parish of Lowther, lying in a valley on the western Hasell John Edward esq. D.L. Dalemain, Penrith banks of the Leeth rivulet, about 2 miles east from Howard Henry Charles esq.D.L.Greystoke castle,Penrith Lawther Castle and I~ south-east from Clifton railway Longrigg William esq.M.&.. Winderwath,Temple Sowerby, station. A beck flows through the village. Melkin- Penrith thorpe Hall, a building of the 16th century, which occu- Marshall WaIter James esq. D.L. Patterdale hall, Penrith pied a low site near the beck, wa.~ pulled down during Oerton Rev. Edward, Vicarage, Tebay R.S.O the present century. The manor was held during tho Parker Edward Wilson esq. Skirwith abbey, Penrith Norman period by a family called de Melcanthorpe ~ Parker Francis esq. Fremington, Penrith subsequently it became the property of the Musgraves, Parkin William Hugh esq. D.L. Ravencragg, Penrith and afterwards of the Fallowfield family, whose heiress- Pritt William esq. Rampsbeck, Penrith transferred it by marriage to the Dalstons of Temple. Rigg Hugb Carthew esq. Crossrigg hall, Penrith Sowerby, and it was by them sold to the Lowther family. Seatree William esq. Arthur street, Penrith The Earl of Lonsdale is chief landowner and lord of the Smith Robert Eradsbaw esq. Eeech grove, Penrith manor. The soil is loam and clay, with a subsoil of. Thompson Charles esq. Morlllnd, Penrith clay and freBstone, and produces excellent crops of hay. Thompson Robert esq. Inglewood bank, Penrith wheat, barley &c. The area is 321 acres; rateable Whiteside Rev. Stephcn M. .&.. Vicarage, Shap R.S.O value, £458. Clerk to the Magistra.tes, William Burm Arnison, St. Whale is a hamlet, township and manor, near thtt Andrew's place, Penrith south end of Lowther Park, about a mile south-west, Rnd Petty Sessions are held at the Lowther Castle hotel, containing one farm. The area is 794 acres j rateable- Hackthorpe, the first manday in each month at 1I a.m. value, £667· & at Police station, Shap, third monday in each month Letters through Penrith. Hackthorpe is the nearest at II a.m. & an occasional court is held at Orton post, money order & telegraph office Lowther New Town. Lowther Village. Eggleston James, farmer & carter LoDsdale Earl of D.L.Lowther eastle; Jackson Eliza. (Miss), dress maker H.udsonlsaac,farmer, Hackthorpe haIr & 14 & 15 Carlton House terrace Lewthwaite John stone mason Llttle John, farmer & Ca1"lton club, London s w Lucas Benjamin, head drainer Lowther Castle hotel, Miss !sabella. Lowther Hon. Lancelot Edwa.rd D.L., RobinsoD Charles, head gamekeeper Bland ".P. Lowther castle to the Earl of Lonsdale Simpson Matthew, joiner Clarke Frederick, head gardener SargeantJsph.&Wm.frmrs.Low moor Whale. Gillbanks Plaskett, caahier & accntnt Stephenson 'l.A"argt (Mrs) shopkpr LL • •, Hudson Thomas farmer Whale farm Nicholson JOlleph, farm bailiff to the ', .Earl of Lonsdale Rackthorpe. Melkinthorp. Toombs Fr"clnciil, architect Thompson Mrs. Jacob Eownass Sarah (Miss),infants' school Westmorland & Cumberland Yea- Thompson Mrs. John Clark Robert, farmer manry Cavalry (B troop, A squad- Earnard Thomas, schcolmaster Foster William, farmer & landowner rOD) (Hon. :Major Francis Mark- Barnett William, farmer, Town end Furness John, fal'mer ham, squadron eommander; Row- Eland Isabella (Miss),Lowther Castle John, farmer & landowner- land W. Slack,troop quartermaster; hotel Laycock Edward, cowkeepe.r Serg~t-Major Robert Clear, drill Brocklebank Margt. (Miss),dress ma Reay Joseph, farmer instructor) Burrow Thomas, shopkeeper, post Waiting J oseph, farmer Winskill George,smith & horse shoer, office & s~e maker Whiting Thomas, gamekeeper to Post office CoweD Robert, farmer the Earl of Lonsdale MALLERSTANG is a chapelry, large township and crated in 1813. The registers date from the year 1813. village on the high road to Hawes, in the of previous to which date they wero kept at Kirkby' , from which it is distant 2;- miles south, Stephen. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly and Kirkby Stephen is also the nearest rallway station: value £128, in the gift of Lord Hothfield, and held since­ Mallerstang is in thB Northern division of the county, 1878 by the Rev. William Alnwick. Middleton's charity, petty sessional division of Kirkby Stephen, union of consisting of 10 cattlegates, produces £30 yearly for­ East Ward, county court district of Appleby, rural bread, which is distributed every Sunday morning to deanery of Appleby and Kirkby and archdeaconry the poor who are not in receipt of parIsh relief; Hunter's, and diocese of . The church of St. Mary, of two cattlegates. and the Poor's Stock together provide­ locally at Outhgill, is an ancient edifice of stone ori­ £S for distribution in mont'y at Christmas; Adam ginally in the Norman style, and consisting of nave, Robinson's charity of £2 yearly is for school books ana south porch and an open turret containing one bell: sehool coal. The Eden here takes its rise and trs.ve~es­ in 1663 it was repaired and endowed by Anne, Countess the entire length of this township. On an eminence in of Pembroke and Montgomery, with lands at Cawtley, this district, near the Yorkshire border, is a stone piUsr near , Yorks, now producing about £33 yearly erected by Anne,Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery. for the 801e use of the incumbent, and in 1879 it was in memory of Sir Hugh Morville kt. and inscribed A.P. partly restored by Lord Hothfield at 11. cost of £100, and 1664; on the same mountain is the source of the riTl'l'S­ DOW affords 120 sittings: thQ churchyard was conse- Yore and Swale, thQ forwQr t<\king it6 course throtlgll