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Kirkby-Thore in Westmorland County England History and GeographyKIRKBY-THORE, a parish in EAST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, comprising the chapelries of Milburn with Milburn-Grange, and Temple-Sowerby, and the township of Kirkby-Thore, and containing 1051 inhabitants, of which number, 377 are in the township of Kirkby-Thore, 5¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Appleby. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, rated in the king's books at £37. 17. 11., and in the patronage of the Earl of Thanet. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists; also a school with a trifling endowment bequeathed by Mr. John Horn, in 1823. This place received its adjunct designation from Thor, the chief of the Saxon idols, to whose honour a temple was raised here. The rivers Eden and Troutbeck run through the parish, and unite their streams at the village, a great part of which, with the hall, was built out of the ruins of Whelp castle, an ancient fortress formerly occupying an adjacent eminence, where, in 1687, were discovered, on turning up its site for cultivation, a four-fold wall, arched vaults, leaden pipes, an altar inscribed 'FORTVNAE SERVATRICI,' with many other antiquities, the supposed relics of a Roman station called Brovonac', as fixed by Horsley An ancient well, several urns, curious earthen vessels, and other relics, are recorded as having been discovered in 1684, near the bridge; and, about 1770, the horn of a moose deer was dug up near the confluence of the two rivers. Not far from the village is a spring slightly sulphnreous, termed Pots Well, which rises from an alabaster rock lying at a considerable depth below the surface. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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