ADDINGHAM, a parish in LEATH ward, county of
CUMBERLAND, 1 mile (S.E.) from Kirk-Oswald, comprising
the townships of Gamblesby, Glassonby, Hunsonby
with Winskill, and Little Salkeld, and containing
694 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Carlisle, rated in the king's
books at £ 9. 4. 7. and in the patronage of the Dean
and Chapter of Carlisle. The church, dedicated to St.
Michael, stands detached in the township of Glassonby.
At Gamblesby are places of worship for Independents
and Wesleyan Methodists, also one for the latter at
Hunsonby, erected about 1823, by Mr. Thos. Hall. There
are well endowed free schools at Hunsonby and Maughamby.
Dr. Paley, the celebrated theological writer,
held this living from 1792 to 1805, the period of his
death. At Little Salkeld is a remarkable monument,
supposed to be Druidical, commonly called " Long
Meg and her Daughters," consisting of sixty-seven
stones, varying in shape and height, which form a circle
about three, hundred and fifty feet in diameter. At
the same place was anciently also a chapel, the site of
which, according to tradition, was at a village called
Addingham (which has long since disappeared), on the
eastern bank of the river Eden, which forms the western
boundary of the parish, where human bones, crosses,
and other remains, have been dug up. The Roman road,
called Maiden-way, may be traced in many parts of its
course through the parish. Here are quarries of red
freestone.