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Witherslack in Westmorland County England History and GeographyWITHERSLACK, a chapelry in the parish of BEETHAM, KENDAL ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 7½ miles (W.N.W.) from Milnthorpe, containing 477 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Beetham. The chapel, dedicated to St. Paul, was built and endowed, in 1664, by Dr. John Barwick, a native of the place, and Dean of St. Paul's, London, who bequeathed the impropriate rectory of Lazonby, to which his brother, Peter Barwick, Esq., M.D., added an estate near Kirk-Oswald, to provide an annuity of £26 to the curate for teaching forty children, one of £4 for repairing the chapel, and another of £10 for placing out apprentices and as a marriage portion to poor maidens within the chapelry. These allowances have been considerably augmented by the increased value of the lands, which now let for about £400 a year, and the treasurers were enabled, in 1824, to erect a girls' school on the same foundation, and have given several marriage portions, of £30 and £40 each, to deserving females. The fishery in the river Belo, which passes through the chapelry, belongs to the Earl of Derby, who holds his manorial court at the Derby Arms, on the second Tuesday after Trinity: the ancient hall has been converted into a farm-house. About a mile from the chapel a chalybeate spring was discovered, and named Holy Well, in 1656, but it has since disappeared. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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