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Westward in Cumberland County England History and GeographyWESTWARD, a parish in ALLERDALE ward below Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 2¾ miles (S.E. by S.) from Wigton, comprising the townships of Brocklebank with Stoneraise, Rosley, and Woodside, and containing 1287 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, endowed with £1600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. The church stands on an eminence in the township of Stoneraise. The parish is bounded on the east by the Wampool river, and on the south by branches of the Waver. Limestone, red freestone, and slate, all of excellent quality, are quarried here, and there are seams of cannel and other coal within the parish. Seven poor children are instructed for the interest of £60, left by John Jefferson, in 1744, and of £20, bequeathed by another benefactor, in 1778. About one mile south from Wigton, and one and a half north from the church, on the Roman road from the city of Carlisle to Ellenborough, is Old Carlisle, the supposed site of the Olenacum of the Notitia, where the Ala Herculea and Ala Augusta were quartered. Antiquaries, however, differ as to the name of this important station, the environs of which covered many acres, still overspread with ruins and foundations of innumerable buildings, with fragments of altars, equestrian statues, images, inscriptions, and various other remains. The walls enclosed an oblong area, one hundred and seventy yards long by one hundred and twenty broad, with obtuse angles, and an entrance on each side, and were surrounded by a double ditch. Near a place called the Heights, in another part of the parish, vestiges of several square, as well as circular, intrenchments may be traced, though many of them have been levelled, and enclosed with the waste lands. Ile-Kirk Hall, which is now a farm-house, was once in the possession of the famous Richard Barwise, a man of prodigious strength and stature. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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