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A vision of Britain through time
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GRAYRIGG, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Kendal district, Westmoreland. The township lies adjacent to the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, gear the source of the river Mint, 5 miles NE of Kendal; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Kendal. Real property, £1, 996. Pop., 251. Houses, 49. The manor belonged to the Windsores and the Ducketts; and passed to the Lowthers. Grayrigg Hall is in ruins. Part of the surface is Grayrigg forest.—The chapelry includes the township, but is much more extensive; and is in Kendal parish. Rated property, £10, 198. Pop., 877. The property is much subdivided. The land is partly mountainous, and is overhung by Whinfell beacon. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £152. * Patron, the Vicar of Kendal. The church is modern; and there are a Quakers' chapel, an endowed school with £30, and other charities with £16.—The sub-district contains fifteen townships of Kendal parish, and one of Kirkby Lansdale. Pop., 4, 026. Houses, 704.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Kendal RegD/PLU Westmorland AncC |
| Place: | Grayrigg |
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