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Crosthwaite in Westmorland County England History and GeographyCROSTHWAITE, a parochial chapelry in the parish of HEVERSHAM, KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 5 miles (W. S. W.) from Kendal, containing, with the hamlet of Lyth, 781 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £630 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Inhabitants and the Vicar of Heversham. Crosthwaite contains several hamlets, and the small but pleasant village of Church-town, near which, and in the centre of a picturesque and fertile vale, stands the chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which was rebuilt about 1813, at the expense of the inhabitants: the ancient structure had parochial privileges granted in 1556, by the diocesan, on account of its great distance from the mother church. George Cocke, in 1665, gave £60 for the building and maintenance of a school; a school-room having been erected by subscription, which is endowed with about £37 per annum, arising from the foregoing gift, the interest of £300 left by Tobias Atkinson in 1817, and the sum of £13 appropriated out of the general charities; there are about thirty free scholars. Here are a paper-manufactory, a corn-mill, and a malt-house. Lyth is a distinct constablewick on the south side of this extensive chapelry, and is bounded on the south-west by the mountainous ridge called Lyth Fell, or Whitbarrow Scar. At the hamlet of Raw, in Lyth, there are several lime-kilns, and at Poolbank, a manufactory of wood-hoops. In Lyth-moss several large trees have been discovered buried beneath the surface. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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