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DEAN, Cumberland - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"DEAN, a parish in the ward of Allerdale-above-Derwent, in the county of Cumberland, 4½ miles S.W. of Cockermouth, and 5½ S.E. of Workington. It is situated on the Marrow, a branch of the river Derwent, here abounding in trout and contains the townships of Dean, Branthwaite, and Ullock. The population are chiefly engaged in the working of coal, limestone, and iron ore, and in the quarries, which produce a good variety of red and white freestone, and a black stone called cat-scalp. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Carlisle, value £318, in the patronage of the Rev. S. Sherwen. The church, dedicated to St. Oswald, is an old structure, The tithes were commuted for land, under an Enclosure Act, in 1809, and the glebe lands comprise 650 acres, of which the greater portion is very unproductive. A free grammar-school was founded in 1596 by John Fox, which has an endowment of £10 per annum, paid by the Goldsmiths' Company. The charities amount to £14 per annum. There is a parochial school. General Wyndham is lord of the manor." "BRANTHWAITE, a township in the parish of Dean, ward of Allordale-above-Derwent in the county of Cumberland, 5 miles to the S.E. of Workington. Freestone of good quality is quarried here. Some of the inhabitants are employed in the woollen and paper manufactures. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel in the village." "DEAN SCALES, a village in the township of Ullock, parish of Dean, in the county of Cumberland, 4 miles S.W. of Cockermouth. The manufacture of linen thread is carried on here." "PARDSEY, a township in the parish of Dean, ward of Allerdale-above-Derwent, county Cumberland, 4 miles S. by W. of Cockermouth. It is joined with Ullock and Dean-Scales." "ULLOCK, a township in the parish of Dean, ward of Allerdale-above-Derwent, county Cumberland, 5 miles S.W. of Cockermouth, and 1½ mile from Dean. It is a station on the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont railway, and contains the hamlets of Pardshaw and Dean Scales; at the former of which are a chapel for Wesleyans and a Friends' meeting-house."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]