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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"OVER WYRESDALE, a chapelry in the parish of Lancaster, hundred of Lonsdale South of the Sands, county Lancaster, 6 miles N.E. of Garstang, and 9 S.E. of Lancaster. The district was once forest, but is now chiefly open moor and fell abounding with game. It is situated on the York border near the river Wyer, and belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster. The living is a curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £150, in the patronage of the vicar. There is a school founded and endowed by William Cawthorne in 1683, and a school supported by the Society of Friends.