DIRECTORY. J CC~IBERLAND. ALSTON. 29 Public Elementary School (mixed), erected about 1855, Railway Stationl!r. & enlarged in 188o; it will hold about goo children; average attendance, 200; Wilfred Bush by Hewson, Mealsgate, Jonathan Ostle Pennl station master­ master, Leesrigg Baggrow, John Alexander Stewart, station master ALLHALLOWS. Fletcher 'fhomas, grazier *Stalker Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Marked thus * receive their letters George Moore Memorial Hall (W. B. Watch Hill through Aspatria, Cum b. Hewson, hon. sec) *Thompson Isabella (Mrs.), Grey Hutchinson Edward, farmer, Up- Goat inn, Baggrow Parkin-Moore Wm.D.L., J.P.Whitehall manby Ti:ffin Miller, assistant overseer, rate Richford Herbert, Knapethorn London Joint Stock Bank Ltd. (sub- collector & incom-e tax collector, Word worth Rev. John, The Vicarage branch) (John Graham, manager); Baggrow COMMERCIAL. open fri. 10.30 to 2; draw on head Walker William, farmer, Gallowhow Allerdale Coal Co. Limited office, 5 Princes street, London E C FLETCHERTOWN. .Aspatria Industrial Co-operative So- *Nelson James, farmer, Baggrow ciety Ltd. (The), Priestcroft Nixon John, farmer Hodgson William, shopkeeper .Barnes John, farmer, Harby brow Potter John, gardener to W. Parkin- Lattim~r William, joiner Blacklock Thos. shopkpr. Priestcroft Moore esq Oglanby Thomas, shopkeeper Dickinson Jonathan, farmr. Leesrigg Raven Leonard, farmer, Priestcroft Tat.e Samuel & William, drapers Elliott J ames, boot & shoe dealer *Smithson William, grocer, Baggrow Walker John & Son, grocers ALLON:BY is a sea-bathing place on St. George's with 150 sittings, and a Friends' meeting-house. A new channel at the estuary of Solway Firth, 3! miles north­ Church hall was built in 1906, at the cost of the Vicar west from Bullgill junction station -on the Maryport and of Bromfield, E. H. Banks esq. Capt. J. Osborn, the Carlisle railway, 5 north-north-east from Maryport, 12 Church Extension Society, and others. The Public News south-west from Wigton and 23 from Carlisle. By and Reading room and library was built in 1862 by the Local Government Board Order No. 3llo309, Allonby was late Joseph Pease esq. of Darlington, at a cost of about formed into a civil .parish from West Newton and £1,ooo, and is managed by trustees. There are two Allonby civil parishes; it is in the Northern division hotels and a number of lodging houses. Coleman Thom­ <Jf the county, ward of Allerdale-above-Derwent, petty linson esq. and George Reay esq. are joint lords of the sessional division, union, and county court district of manor; and Mr. William Williamson, Mr. Jonathan Wigton, rural deanery of Maryport and archdeaconry Williamson, Mr. John Williamson, and Mrs. Saul are .and diocese of Carlisle. Its attractive situation, and the principal landowners. The area is 1,349 acres of firm and smooth sands, the gentle slope of which renders land, 1 of inland water and 353 of foreshore ; rateable bathing perfectly safe at all states of the tide, causes value, £2,727; the population in 19II was 426. this place to be a favourite resort during the summer Parish Clerk and Sexton, William Twentyman. season. The parish is supplied with water by the Post, M. 0. & T. O:ffice.-Percy Ramsay Foster, sub· Aspatria, Silloth and District Joint Water Board from postmaster. Letters through Maryport arrive at 7·45 their Chapel House reservoir in Ireby parish. Christ a.m. & 3.15 p.m. winter & 4.15 p.m. summer; dis­ Church, erected as a chapel-of-ease to Bromfield, but patched at g.1o a.m. & 4.40 p.m. ISt April to -,xst made the chnrch of a separate ecclesiastical parish, Feb. October, 3.40 p.m. xst November to 31st March; no 16, 1906, was rebuilt in 1845 upon the site of a former delivery on sundays. Telegraph business transacted -chapel, erected in 1741, by Dr. Tomlinson, of Newcastle­ on sunday from 9 to xo a.m upon-Tyne, and his relatives, and is a plain cruciform Public Elementary Schools. -edifice of stone, with a west porch and western turret containing one bell. In the church is a marble monu­ Erected in 1840, & endowed by Thomas Richardson esq. ment with medallion to Capt. Joseph Huddart F.R.S. of Stamford Hill, Middlesex, with £1,089 in railway formerly of the Hon. East India Co. Service, who died securities now producing £ss yearly ; the school will in 1816. In 1885 the interior was renovated and greatly hold 120 children; average attendance, 52; Josiah improved, and an organ erected at a total cost of £po ; Herbert Cushing, master; Miss Margaret Jefferson, the stained east window was erected by the patron in mistress 1898 to the memory of his wife. A new organ was pro­ Chairman of Managers, Rev. William Lindop B.A. ; vided in 1899, at a cost of £170. The church affords 250 Correspondent, William S. Tocher sittings, of which 40 are free. The registers date from Wagonettes leave in summer by arrangement at about the year IJSB, but are defective up te 1776. The living 10 a.m. & 5.15 p.m. for Bullgill station on the Mary• is a vicarage, net yearly value £2oo, with residence, port & Carlisle railway, returning from Bullgill at in the gift of the vicar of Bromfield, and held since about 11.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. On fridays one leaves 1900 by the Rev. William J.indop B.A. of Durham Uni­ for Maryport market at g.15 a.m. returning same day versity. There is a Congregational chapel, built in 1844, at 2.15 p.m PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Crone Hannah (Mrs.), confectioner Richardson Christr. painter & grocer Bigland Miss Dawson Wm.Huddart,boot & shoe ma Robinson Joseph H. butcher Burch Thomas, Bouch place Douthwaite William, farmer Saul John Dickinson, farmer Costin Miss Edgar Jonathan, farmer, Allonby mill Shadwick Mary (Mrs.), apartment1.1, Cushing J osiah Herbert Faulder Joseph, tailor & draper Solway villa Dalzell Mrs. The Hill Foster Percy Ramsay, grocer, & post Steele Chambers, farmer, Crookhursli Dickson John, The Green office Stordy Daniel, apartments Labrey Miss Green Thomas, farmer, Marina cot Stordy John J. butcher Lindop Rev. William B.A. Vicarage Harris Agnes (Mrs.), apartments Stordy William, fruiterer Thwaites Mrs Harrison Nancy (Mrs.), confectioner Strong George, shopkeeper & farmer Watson Edward, Woodlands Heskett J oseph, master mariner Thomlinson Jacob Ltd. Ship hotel COMMERCIAL. Hodgson Sarah & Fanny (Misses), Thompson Ernest, cabinet maker Allonby Public News & Reading Room apartments, Fernlea Thompson Robert James, grocer & Library (Walker Williamson,sec) Hodgson John (Mrs.), apartments Thornthwaite Fredk. farmer,Bowscale Bewley Mary (Miss), Grapes hotel Hodgson Sarah Jane (Miss), confctnr Thornthwaite John, apartments Blackstock Alma Maria (Mrs.), fancy London Joint Stock Bank Ltd. (The) Tocher William Sheriff,assistant over- repository (sub-branch) (Joseph Watson, seer for Allonby & West Newton, Blackstock Thos. apartments,North lo manager) (tues. & thurs. 10 a.m. clerk to Parish Council & corre· Boustead Jane (Miss), apartments, to 11.30 a.m.); draw on head spondent to school managers Boustead house office, 5 Princes street, London E C Twentyman James, insurance agent Bunting Mary & Margaret (Misses), Lowes John, black ">IDi th T-wenty man John, apartments grocers Mann Joseph, farmer Williamson Joseph John, farmel' Bunting Hannah (Mrs.), apartments Naisbit Sarah Ellen (Miss), apart- Williamson Matthew, farmer, Brown~ Carruthers Joseph (Mrs.), aparts • ments, East house rigg hall Carruthers Key, butcher Patterson Mary (Miss), shopkeeper Williamson Walker, farmer, Dickin­ Cart mer .John, a-parts. Bank cottage Pearson William, Globe inn son place Costin Robert Edward, shopkeeper Ponsonby J oseph, butcher Wilson John, joiner & cartwright ALSTON is a small market and union town and Penrith, 20 south-eagt from Brampton by road and 25 parish, on the road from Penrith to Newcastle, and by rail, 43 from Neweastle by road and so by rail, 13 1s the head of a county court district, with a terminal from Haltwhistle, 23l by road from Hexham and 2gi station on a branch from Haltwhistle of the North bv rail, and 281 from London, in the Mid division Eastern railway, and is 29 miles by road east-south­ of the county, Leith ward and petty sessional divi­ -east from Carlisle and 35l by rail, 19 north-east from sion, rural deanery of Hexham, archdeaconry of North-.