DIRECTORY.] CU l\1BERLAND. ARLECDON. 33 Baine Edward, farmer, Wanwood hill Snowdon Robt. W. buildr. Town head Varty John, boot & shoe maker Bamsey John, town crier Spark John V. watch ma. Rose cot Varty Sarah L. (Mrs.), Blue Bell hotel Bechabites Independent Order of Spark H. (Mrs.),furn.aparts,Bose cot Walton & Little, wine & spirit mer- (Frederick H. ~icholson, sec) Spark 'l'hos. butcher & cattle dealer chants (wholesale) Bichardson Alice M. (Mrs.) & Sons, l::lLc:phenson Elizabeth (Mrs.),confectnr Walton Duncan, farmer, Leadgate farmers, Coatlith hill Stephenson Hannah (MIS.), grocer, & Walton Hugh, ironmonger Bichardson Geo. farmer, Low Gill ho ) wtoria temperance hotel Walton Jn. (Mrs.), aparts. Salvin ho Bichardson Herbert, saw mill owner .Stokes James J. receiver, agent & Walton John, farmer, Annat walls Bichardson Bobert, farmer, Park steward of the manor to the Lords Walton Joseph, farmer, Annat walls Bichardson Sarah (Miss), milliner of the Admiralty, Old Manor house WaltonJoseph R., J.P. civil & min- Boberts A. Limited, drug stores .Stokoe Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper ing engineer, mining, land & estate Boutledge Ellen (Miss), apartments, Storey Geo. Wm. knit hosiery manufr agent, Lowbyer Manor house 3 West view Storey Thos. Jas. dentist,Temple Crcft Walton Joseph W. boot & shoe maker Bust John, boarding ho. V all£ y Yie :l" Summers Thomas .1.\l.farmer, Fair hilt W zlton N a ::haniel, registrar of hirths, Ruth La.nca.ster James Cottage Hos- Sykes Watson, manager to the Lon- deaths & marriages, Alston district, pital (Stewart Carson M.B., C.M. don City & Midland Bank & treas. clerk & registrar to the burial medical attendant; Miss Catherine to the union & Rural District Council board, relieving, vaccination & Davidson, matron) & deputy superintendent registrar school attendance officer & sec. tG Salkeld William, shopkeeper Tatters John & Geo. wagonette proprs the trustees of the Town Hall bldgs Savings Bank (Watson Sykes, treas.; Tatters Thos.Wm. stationer & printer Walton Samuel, farmer, Foul Loaning Hugh Haldon, sec.), Town hall . Teasdale Isaac, farmer, High park Walton Thomas Richardson, grocer Scholick J. G. Limited, boot makers Teasdale John, boot maker Walton William, butcher Scott Thomas, farmer, Four Shield Thompson Daniel, farmer, Leadgate Ward Thos. farmer, Brownside farm Shield John James, butcher Thompson George, farmer, Blagill Watson Thomas, farmer, Aimshaugh Simpson & Son, drapers Thompson William, assessor & col- Welsh Mary (Miss), draper Smith Anna (Miss), dress maker lector of King's taxes, Spring house Westmorland & Cumberland Yea- Smith Elizh. S. (Mrs.),eaithenwre.dlr Tindle Martin, grocer & drysalter manry (D Squad) (Major Clarence Smith John, saddler, Town head Town Hall (Nathaniel Walton,keeper) Chemey Wilson, commanding) Smith Bobert, farmer, Mark close Union Club (Matthew H. Tindle, sec) White John J. grocer Smith Thomas, insurance agent 1Varty Esther (Mrs.), Shaw House inn Wright William, gamekeeper to W. Smith William George, aerated Varty Isaac, builder P. King esq. Wanwood water manufr. Rodsley cottage ARLECDON is a parish and village, 6 miles east­ is divided into t;wo wards, viz. :-..\rlecdon and Frizing- north-e'lst from W"hitehaven and about 10 south-west ton; the populations in 1901 were 1,63:1 and 3,709 from Cockermouth, in the Western division of the t·espectively. coun~y. ward and petty sessional division of Allerdale Parish Clerk, Robert Gilbert. above Derwent, Whitehaven union and countv• court dis- trict, rural deanery of Whitehaven, archdeaconry of Constable, William Winter, Bowrah. Westmorland and diocese of Carlisle. The sta.tions at Post & M. 0. Office, 2 Arlecdon Parks road.-Mrs. Frizington, Yeathousc, Winder, Wright Green and J10mima Saville, sub-postmistrelis. Letters through Bowrah on the London and North Western and Furness Corkermouth arrive at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5·35 railways, are all on the eastern border of the parish; p.m. through Frizington ; no sunday delivery of let- the Roman road from Egremont Castle to CockPrmouth ter&. Frizington is the nearest telegraph office • passed through the parish. Arlecdon and Frizington were constituted a. Local Government District by Order WaU Letter Boxes at Asby, cleared at 4·35 p.m. & in CJuncil, I May, 188:~, and were thenceforward B•1wrah at 5.10 p.m. Telegrams are forwarded from governed by a Local Board, but under the provisions of Rowrah & Winder railway stations. the ''Local Government Act, 1894," the district is now controlled by the Arlecdon and Frizington Urban District FRIZINGTON, or Frisington (High and Low), is a vil­ Council, consisting of 9 members. By Local Government lage and ecclesiastical parish formed from the parish of Baal"d Order No. 31,577, 28th Sept. 1894, the Urban Arlecdon by Order in Council, dated January 1oth, 1910, District was extended to include the Rural part of about 2 miles gouth from the village of Arlecdon and 5! !rlecdon -civil parish. The district is well lighted with east from Whitehaven, and has stations at Frizington oil lamps and supplied with water from works at Cogra and Yeathouse on the London and North Western and Moss, in the parish of Lamplugh. The church of St. Furness railways. The church of St. Paul, erected in Michael is a small building of stone, consisting of chan­ 1867-8, is an edifice of Crosslacon red sandstone in the eel, nave and a tower containing 8 bells: it was rebuilt Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, west in 1829 at a cost of about £,"794, raised by a rate on porch and a small spire containing one bell: the stained tho parishioners, except £100 given by Dr. John Bird east window was erected by Mary, wife of John Atkinson Sumner. Bishop of Chester, in whose diocese it then esq. as a memorial to various members of her family, wa'!: the interior contains a marble tablet to the late and there are t.hree other stained windows : in t-he Joseph Steele, of Acre Walls, d. 30 Sept. 1835, besides church is a. tablet inscribed to the Rev. William Field other memorials : the church was restored in 1go6, re­ Ives M.A. for 14 years vicar of Arlecdon, d. 3 March, seated and panelled in oak, an oak roof put on and a 1891, and another to Thomas Dixon esq. J.P. of Bheda, tower built at a c~st of about £s,ooo, defrayed by Mrs. d. Oct-. 13. 1882, and to his wife; this memorial was Big-gins, of High House and Mat·ton Vicarage, Shrop­ placed by their two sons, at whose expense also the shire, in memory of her father and mother, formerly church was decorated in 1890: there are 350 sittings. resident in this parish: the peal of 8 bells was given 'fhe living is a vicarage, net yearly value £190, with by various families, and a lych gate by Thomas Dixon residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Carlisle, and held esq. J.P. of Rheda: there are 200 s=.ttings. The register ~ince 1910 by the Rev. Reginald Samuel Edward Oliver of marriages dates from 1730, burials 1735 and baptisms B.A. of London University. The Catholic church, in 1752. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £205, the Yeathouse road, dedicated to St. Joseph, is now re­ witit 7 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the built. Adjoining' is a priest's house, and in Dyke Nook Bishop of Carlisle, and held since 1909 by the Rev. is a cemetery belonging to this chapel. The Primitive Henr-y Hunter Parker M.A. of Edinburgh University. Mt>thodist chapel, erected in 1876 at a cost of [1,ooo, The vicarage, about 1 mile from the church, was is an edifice of stone, and will seat about 250; the erPrted in 1842 at a cost of about £6oo. The Wesleyan Sunday school adjoining was erected in 1894. and will chapel, at Rowrah, opened June 10, 18g6, will seat 200; hold 300 children. The W esleyan Methodist chapel, attached is a Sunday school, let for concerts, social built in 1884 at a. cost of [2,000, is an edifice of local meetin~s &c. ; there is also a Primitive Methodist stone, in the Gothic style: the interior is surrounded Mi;;sion Hall at As by, built in 1875. Small local fairs by galleries, and seats 480 persons. The Gospel Hall. for cattle &c. are held on the 24th of April, the first in Frizington road, erected in 1892, is used for services Friday in June and on the 17th of September. The by the Christian Brethren. The Market Hall stands in E<~rl of Lonsdale, who is lord of the manor, Thomas Yeathouse road, it is let for meetings, concerts &c. and Dixon esq. J.P. of Bheda, and Samuel Lindow Burns­ will hold 400. The Masonic Hall is in Frizington road. Lindow esq. J.P. of Ingwell, are the principal land· The .A.rlecdon and Frizington Free Public Library, 120 Qwners. The soil is fertile, but varies considerably; Maiu street, was opened as a lending library in May, subsoil, various. 'l'he chief crops are grass, oats, tur­ 1892, and has 5,ooo T"Olumes. St. Joseph'il' Catholic nips and potatoes. The area of the civil parish and recreation rooms, in Yeathouse road, erected in 1893 at of the Arlecdon and Frizington Urban District is 5,549 a cost of £:~2o, comprise billiard, reading and other acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value, [27,171; rooms. The Working Men'15 billiard and recreation th~ population in 1901 was 5•341· The Urban District rooms were built in 1868. fl":\JB. 3 .