DiREOTORY.] WESTMORL~ND. .KIRKBY STEPHEN. 91 COUNTI'M!GISTRIlTBS FOR EAST W.&.RD PETTY SB.S8~ONA.L Stamp Office, Post Office, Market place DIVISION. The Workhouse for the East Ward union, at North end, Grimshaw Capt. John D.L. Hutton lodge, Soulby, Kirkby is a plain building of stone. available for 120 poor; the Stephen, chairma.n of Appleby bench present number of inmates is 50; Andrew Mackreth. Chamley Capt. Thomas,Warcop house, Penrith, chairman master j Mrs. Elizabeth Mackreth, matron; MattheWj of Kirkby Stephen bench R. Fairer H. B., J.P. medical officer Lowther Hon. Wm. D.L. Campsea Ashe, WickhamMarket PUBLIC OFFICERS :- Whitehead Sir James bart. M.P., D.L., F.B.A.., F.S.S. High- Assistant Overseer, John Clark, Main street field house, Catford Bridge, Kent Collector of Income Taxes, John Sayer, Front street Bell Andrew esq. Kelso honse, Kirkby Stephen Medical Officer for Kirkby Stephen District of the East Boazman Hy. esq. Acorn bank, Temple Sowerby, Penrith Ward Union, Matthew Robinson Fairer ll.B.Edin., J.P. Chatfield Frederick esq. Garbridge, Bongate, Appleby Mitre house Crackanthorpe Montague Hughes esq. D.L., Q. C., D.O.L. Medical Officer for Ravenstonedale District of the East Newbi<J'gin hall, Temple Sowerby, Penrith Wa.rd Union, Eenjamin Walker M.D. The Grotto Offi~er, Curwen Rev. Alexander John Goldie B.D. The Rectory, Relieving & Vaccination South District, East Kirkby Thore, Penrith Ward Union, Richard Wilson, Front street Dent William esq. Street house, Bolton, Penrith Town Crier, George Bell Dinwoodie Frederick M.D. The Villa, Crosby Garrett, Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages for Kirkby Kirkby Stephen Stephen District of the East Ward Union, ThomWl Fairer Matthew Robinson M.B., C.M. :l\Iitre house, Kirkby Brown, Market place Stephen PLACES OF' WORSHIP, with times of service :- :F'aulkner Rev. Henry Jackson Hardcastle B.A.. The Rer- St. Stephen's, Rev. Henry Arbuthnot Feilden M.A.. vicar: tory, Dufton, Appleby 10.3° a.m. & 6.30 p.m Fnlton Wm. Scott esq.BankEnd house,Bongate, Appleby Baptist, Victoria square, Rev. C. G. Jones & Rev. W. Gibson Thomas Horatio M.B. Eden pI. Kirkby Stophen Maynard j 10.30 a m. & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 7.30 p.m Gibson Robert Wilson M.B. Orton, Tebay R.S.O Congregation Chapel, Market place; 10.30 a.m. & 6.3(1 Graham William esq. D.L. Eden grove, Bolton, Penrith p.m Gregson Nicholll.s esq. Castle house, Kirkby Stephen Primitive Methodist, North end; 2 & 6.30 p. m.; wed. Hewetson Thomas esq. The Lane, Weasdale, Raven- 7.30 p.m stonedale, Kirkby Stephen Plymouth Brethren Room, Melbeck; 10.3° a.m. & 6.30 Lyde Rev. William M.A.Vicarage,Brough,Kirkby Stephen p.m Metcalfe-Gibson Anthony esq. Coldbeck, Ravenstonedale, Wesleyan Centena.ry, Rev. James A. Rimmer; 10.30 Kirkby Stephen a.m. & 6.30 p. m. j tues. 7.30 p.ro Nanson John esq. Boroughgate, Appleby ScHOOLS: - Sanderson William esq. Mount Eden, Bongate, Appleby The Grammar School, originally open to all the boys of Thompson Charles esq. Morland, Penrith the town & its vicinity for grammar (the master Thompson Edmund esq. Long Marton, Appleby receiving a quarterpence for other branches of educa­ Thwaytes Thomas Wilkinson esq. D.L. Holes Foot lodge, tion), was founded under letters patent of Queen Crasby Ravensworth, Shap RS.O Elizabeth in 1556 by Sir Thomas Wharton kt. 1st Troughton Robert esq. Kirkby Stephen baron Wharton, who endowed it with the ancient Tufton Alfd. Chas. esq. B.A., D.L. 56 LeinlOter sq. London rectory-honse, garden & adjacent buildings, together WatsonJosephRobinson esq.WheatSheaf,Warcop,Penrith with the yearly rent-charges of £12 for the master, Watson William L.B.C.p.gdin. Temple Sowerby, Penrith 26s. 8d. for the usher, & £6 I3s. 4d. to two ex­ Westmorland Thomas esq. Eden view, Kirkby Thore, hibitioners to be sent to Oxford or Cambridge, "to Penrith have £3 6s. 8d. a year for seven year8." These sums, Clerk to the Magistrates, John Bell M.A. Boroughgate, amounting to £20 yearly, were to be paid out of Appleby the corn tithes of Kirkby Stephen & Winton; but by Clerk to the Sub-division, Richard Thomas Roe Walton a decree of Chancery, in 1736, they were all ordered to Rallam, Kirkby Stephen be paid out of the tithes of Winton, then belunging to Petty Sessions are held at the Shire Hall, Bongate, Ap­ Robert Lowther esq. purchaser of this part of the pleby, every alternate saturday at 10.30 a.m. & at the Wharton estate & now to the Earl of Lonsdale, as DPolice Station, Kirkby Stephen, every alternate mon­ his successor. During the confusion caused by the day at l2.I5 p.m state of the affaiIs of Philip, Duke of Wharton, who The following places are included within the petty ses­ had espoused the cause of James Edward, the "Old sional division :-Appleby, Asby Coatsforth, Asby Pretender," the school was closed for eleven years, after Little, Asby Winderwath, Bleatarn, Bolton, Bongate, which arrears, amounting to £280 were recovered, and Brampton, *Brough, *Brough Sowerby, BurreIls, Bur­ expended in the renovation of the !lchool & master's tOD, Colby, Coupland Beck, Crackenthorpe, *Crosby house, & in the purchase of a field near the south end Garl'ett, Crosby Ravensworth, Drybeck, Dufton, of the town, now worth £10 yearly. A yoarly *Hartley, Helm, *HilLbeck, Rilton, Roff & Row, rent-charge of £6 was bequeathed by Sir ThomaB *Kaber, Keisley, ·Kirkby Stephen, Kirkby Thore, Wharton, to be paid out of an estate at Nateby; & in Knock, Langton, Long Martyn, *Mallerstang, Milburn 1623 the Rev. John Knewstuble bequeathed to St. & Milburn Grange, Murton, ""Musgrave Great, *Mus­ John's College, Cambridge, an annuity of [,5, to be grave Little, *Nll.teby, .Newbiggin (Temple Sowerby), paid there to a poor scholar from Ithis I!chool till he Newbiggin (Ra.venstonedale), Ormside, *Ravenstone­ " be of standing to take the degree of Master of Arts," dale, Row & Hoff, Sandford, Scattergate, *Smardale, after which another is to be nominated by the vicar *Soulby, ·Stainmore, Temple Sowerby, *Waitby, War­ & schoolmaster. The school was re-organised in 1881 cop, *Wharton & • Winton by the Endowed School Commissioners, & is free to Marked thus * are in the Kirkby Stephen District. the extent of 10% of the attendance to scholars re­ siding in Kirkby Stephen parish. The endowment PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS :- now (1894) conflists of about 10 acres of land, rent Cemetery, 13rough road, Richard \Vilson, clerk to the charges & invested funds, producing together £68 1I. burial board year. There are now 35 boys & girls, & the school Inland Revenue Office, North end, Frank William is managed by a body of 13 governors. Jonathan Watts, officer Nicholson M.A., T.e. D. master Police Station, Station road. a building of stone built A School Board of 5 members, for Rartley & Kirkby in 1887, comprising in addition to the cells, a court­ Stephen United Distrip.t, was formed 18th Dec. 1874; room & quarters for the sergeant (Cumberland & West­ John Sayer, Front street, clerk to the board & attend. morland county constabulary), John J oseph Sproat, ance officer sergeant & one constable Board School (mixed & infants), on the Nateby road, Public Weighing Machine, Market place, John Braith­ erected with master's house in 1877, for 350 children j waite, proprietor average atteudance, mixed school, 190 &, 99 infants WESTM. 7.