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Ulpha in Cumberland County England History and GeographyULPHA, a chapelry in the parish of MILLOM, ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 9 miles (E. by S.) from Ravenglass, containing 368 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Millom. The chapel is dedicated to St. John. There is a place of worship for Anabaptists. The chapelry extends along the western bank of the river Duddon to the mountains Hard Knot and Wrynose, where is a stone called three-shire stone, marking the boundaries of Cumberland, Lancaster, and Westmorland. A Roman road crosses both these mountains; and about half-way up the former are the remains of Hard Knot Castle, a fortress anciently of great importance, though the period of its erection is involved in obscurity. There are quarries of excellent blue slate, of which about one thousand four hundred tons are annually raised. Copper mines were formerly worked, and zinc is known to exist here. The coppices, with which this district abounds, produce a large supply of wood for making hoops and bobbins, the former being disposed of at Liverpool, and the latter to the manufacturers of cotton, woolen, linen, and silk in other towns. A fair for sheep is held on the first Monday in September, and there were formerly fairs for cloth and yarn, on the Monday before Easter and July 9th, but these are now only resorted to for pleasure. The hall, which bears marks of high antiquity, has been converted into a farm-house: adjoining it is a well, termed 'Lady's Dub,' where it is said a lady was surprised and killed by one of the wolves that anciently infested the neighbourhood. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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