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Great Musgrave Parish, 1848


MUSGRAVE, GREAT (St. Theobald), a parish, in East ward and union, county of Westmorland, 2 miles (W.S.W.) from Brough; containing 167 inhabitants. This parish comprises 4,080 acres, of which 2,400 are common or waste; it is bounded on the southeast by the river Belo, and on the south-west by the Eden, which is crossed by a bridge of two arches, erected in 1826. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £16. 1. 11½.; net income, £149; patron, the Bishop of Carlisle. The Rev. Septimus Collinson, D.D., in 1827 left £1500 three per cent. consols. for the endowment of a free school, which is conducted on the national plan.

Extract from: A Topographical Dictionary of England comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships..... 7th Edition, by Samuel Lewis, London, 1848.

Musgrave Civil Parish Great Musgrave Church of St Theobald, Great Musgrave Westmorland, Parishes and Townships, 1848
Church of St Theobald, Great Musgrave
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Church of St Theobald, Great Musgrave

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