140 ClWSSCAXO~BY. CUMBER LAND. [ KLLL\ 's Working Men's Reading Room (Thos. 1 Whitehouse Paul, Birkby lodge Sibson Isaac, farmer Penrice, hon. sec) COMMEBCIA.L. Smith William, farmer Bell IJaniel, farmer Walls Bernard, market gardener BIRKBY. Dixon Joseph & Sons, farmers Clark John Ellen Grove Laundry (Jn. Nixon, sec) Norman Major John Fee James, miller, Birkby mill BULLGILL. Ritson Mrs. John, Ellen bank McGraa Tom S. assistant overseer, :Maryport Co-operativP Industrial So­ Ritson Robert B.A. Ellen banli Ellen Grove villa ciety Limited, Crosby villa Taylor Mrs. Birkby house Marston Wm. farm bailiff to John Ostle Wm. sub-postmaster & shopkpr "Temple Mrs. Ellen grove Pape esq Troughear Joseph, shopkpr.Crosby vil CROSTHWAITE is a parish in the Mid division of Braithwaite station on the Cockermouth, Keswick and the county, petty sessional division of Keswick, union of Penrith railwav.• The neiO"hbourinO"e e heights command Cockermouth, ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, county O"OOd views of the lakes of Derwentwater and Bassen- court district of Keswick, rural deanery of Keswick, thwaite. The Derwentwater Hotel here is a good archdeaconry of Westmorland and diocese of Carlisle,. hostelry. Lord Leconfield, who is lord of the manor, and was formerly one of thE.' largest parishes in the Lake Lord Rochdale, J. S. Birkett esq. Mr. J. S. Barker district, being zo miles in length and 8 in breadth, and Mr$. Fox are the principal landowners. The area stretc.hino- westward from Helvellyn and Great Dodd of the township of Above-Derwent is 13,87~ acres of to Great" Gable, Grassmoor, Grisedale Pike, and other land and 881 of water; rateable value, £9,321; popula­ mountains, and northward from the confines of West­ tion in rgn, 1,047. m orland to Skiddaw and Saddleback, and containing the Ullock is a hamlet. two beautiful lakes of Derwentwater and Thirlmere, Post, M. 0. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Offic~ with that of l3assenthwaite at its north-western ex­ -Miss Elizabeth M'lntosh, sub-postmistress. Letters tremity. The parish, anciently in the diocese of Glas­ arrive from Keswick at 7.50 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; dis­ gow, or Strath Clyde, is now divided into the following patched at 8.35 & 10.45 a.m. & 2, 5.30 & 7·30 p.m. ecclE.'siastical districts, in addition to that remaining except sunday attached to the mother church of St. Kentigern, which is locally in Keswick, viz. :-St. John's, Thornthwaite, U.NDERSKIDDA W is a township, comprising the Newlands, Borrowdale and Wythburn, and is otherwise hamlets of Great Crosthwaite, Applethwaite and :Mill­ divided into five townships, comprising Above-Derwent, beck, I mile north-east from Keswick, and commands Borrowd.ale, Keswick, Castlerigg St. John's and Wyth­ verv O"OOd views of the lakes of Derwentwater and burn and Underskiddaw, Borrowdale, Keswick and Bassenthwaite. In this township stands the parish Wythburn, will be found under separate headings. church of Great Crosthwaite, which is described under Sir J. Banks's Charity comprises 195a. 3r. 33P· of Keswick. The church Sunday school was built in 1833 land, tolls &c. about £gs6 in Consols, 20a. or. 3P· of bv the late James Stanger esq. Windebrow is the resi­ land (Ogle"s gift), bought for £soo stock from sale of dence of Major Edward Wilfred Spedding R.A. ; The workhouse; the total income amounts to about £254, Red House of Gordon Falcon esq. and Lyzwick Hall of <lf which £40 is assigned for educational purposes and Samuel James Ditchfield esq. These mansions are [130 to the support of pensioners; the educational charminO"lv,... situated and afford beautiful and extensive portion is now used for paying the school fees of poor views. Millbeck Hall, now occupied as a farm house, children for secondary education ; there are now appears to have been the seat, during the Tudor period, ten pensioners, who may be either men or women, of the Williamson familv, one of whom, Sir Joseph not in receipt of parish relief ; each receives ss. weekly. Williamson kt. a native of• Great Broughton, in Kukby• Grave and Clarke's Charity consists of 31a. Ir. 3op. parish, was pre~ident of the Royal Society, Secretary of of land and 10 cattle stints, the rents of which, amount­ State (1674-8) in succession to Lord Arlington, and! "ing to £53 16s. 2d. are dis~ributed in kind. Tickell~s English plenipotentiary at the settlement of the treaties Charity of £44 a year, derived from 14a. of land, Is of Nime~uen (1678-g) and of Ryswick _(1697). During distributed in money on the Saturday preceding Whit the early part of the 17th century this property was Sunday. Wren's Charity consists of about £2o6 in acquired by the family of Brownrigg of Ormathwaite, Consols and 18a. u. 25p. of land, of which 4 acres, and in 18oo, together with the Ormathwaite estate, were beino- woodland, are in hand; the rents -and interest, bequeathed by William Brownrigg esq. M. D., F .R.S. together amounting to £14, are applied to the purchase an eminent physician and scientist of Whitehaven, to of Bibles and other books for scholars. Adamson's John Benn esq. who had previously assumed the name Charity, founded by deed in 1843, consists of £ro2 13s. and arms of Walsh. Dr. Brownrigg died 6 (or 7) Jan. in Consols, realising about £2 1os. a year, for distribu­ r8oo, and in 1804 Mr. Benn Walsh was created a tion in kind. Marshall's Charity of £1,520 in Consols baronet; his son, Sir John Walsh, was raised to the produces £45 12s. yearly, and is disposed of at the peera~e as Baron Ormathwaite in 1868, and Millbeck is discretion of the vicar of St. John's for educational and the property of the present Lord Ormathwaite, Qf ()ther purposes. Charities for divisions of .Above-Der­ Strettington House, Chichester. The house, constructed went and Keswick: Huntington's, of £5 zos. yearly, of local date-roclt, comprises the remains of a pele .derived from ·about £183 in stock and securities, is tower of the rsth century, with additions, including a .distributed in kind, in equal shares, to the poor of Ion~ wing, of the Late Tudor period, with walls about Thornthwaite and Braithwaite. E. Dunlop's Charit,·. 4 feet thick; the entrance doorway, on the west front, bequeathed in 1856, and F. Dunlop's. bequeathed in has a very flat arch, over which, and on the same r85g, consist together of about £314 in Consols, realising stone, is the following inscription, carved in raised f,g yearly, for distribution by the vicar. of St. John'11. letters, and probably adapted from the s1milar inscrip­ lJivision Above-Derwent :-Udale's Charity of 3a. 2r tion at Blencow :-" 1592. M.W. QVORSVM VIVERE tog-ether with rents, realises about £I7 yearly for dis­ MORI MORI VIVERE. NICHOLAVS WILLIAMSON." tribution in kind. The interior formerly contained a spacious dining- ball In 1903 some pre-historic implements were found on with mullioned windows, but the size of this apartment Bristowe Hill in this parish ; these were discovered by has been much reduced ; the room was originally wains· workmen en!f<!ged in excavating ground for the founda­ cottE>d, but all the panelling has now disappeared. tions of a house, on a line almost due east and west Waiter T. Crosse esq. who is lord of the manor, Lord on the north side of the top of the hill, in a ditch of Ormathwaite, Mi~s Spedding, Major E. W. Spedding hlackish mould from 3 to 5 feet deep, and comprised R.A. and S. J. Ditchfield esq. are the principal land­ four pieces of worked stone, viz. : r, part of a owners. 'fhe land is chi~>fly in pasture. Tht> area is hexa!!Onal saucer; 2, a cube of felspathic granite ; 3, a 5.6ro acres of land and 137 of water; rateable value, . brol;:;n quern, and 4, part of a hig-hly-polish!'d• stone £4,625; population in 19II, 242. c'llt; all these are now in the Fitz Park Museum, Keswick. Briery, a hamlet on the river Greta, is about I mile Derwl'nt Hill, the residence of Robert Slack esq. is east from Keswick station on the Cockermouth, Kes­ ·delightfully situated, and commands very l":d!'nsive wick and Penrith railway. Tiews of the !lurrounding country and the lakes of Der­ Post & M. 0. Office, Applethwaite.-Mrs. Margery wentwater and Bassenthwaite. Lingholm is the re si- Brandon, sub-postmistress. Lt>tters by foot post from 1lencE.' of Lord R'lchdale. K~>swick. which is the nearest telegraph office (2 miles distant), arrive at 8.25 a.m. & 3·30 p.m.; ABOVE-DERWENT is a township, comprising Braith­ dispatched at 4·4.'i p.m. week days only waite, Thornthwaite, Newlands and Portinscale. Wall Lett!'r Box, :Millbeck, cleared at 4·35 p.m. wtoek davs only PORTINSCALE is a small villagP, in the township Public Elem!'ntary School, Scalebeck, built about r872, of .Above-Derwent, in the civil parish of Crosthwaite. for 43 children; average attE.'ndance, 7; Mrs. Annie •l miles west from Keswick and about 1! miles from Heppell, mistress .