BAMPTON (KIRK), a parish in the ward and
county of CUMBERLAND, comprising the townships of
Kirk-Bampton, Little Bampton, and Oughterby, and
containing 470 inhabitants, of which number, 193 are
in the township of Kirk-Bampton, 6 miles (W.) from
Carlisle. The living is a discharged rectory, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, rated in the king's
books at £14. 17. 10., endowed with £400 parliamentary
grant, and in the alternate patronage of the Earl
of Lonsdale and Sir Wastel Brisco, Bart. The church,
dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient edifice. There are
two chalybeate springs in the parish, one of them discovered
in 1826, near Fingland Rigg.