BARTON, a parish in WEST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, comprising the chapelries of Hartsop with Patterdale, and Martindale, and the townships of High Barton, Low Winder, Sockbridge, and Yanwath with Eamont-Bridge, and containing 1212 inhabitants, of which number, 322 are in the township of High Barton, 4 miles (S.W. by S.) from Penrith. The living is a, vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, rated in the king's books at £11. 1. 0., and in the patronage of the Earl of Lonsdale. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a large low structure, beautifully situated in the vale of Eamont. This parish includes part of the lake of Ullswater, from which flows the river Eamont, separating Westmorland from Cumberland: at its western extremity is the lofty mountain Helvellyn, and at its eastern King Arthur's Round Table. Barton Fell contains a great variety of valuable minerals, including jasper, agate, onyx, cornelian, chalcedony, &c., besides spars, and petrifactions of fish, shells, leaves, &c. At Hartsop and Patterdale are extensive quarries of fine blue slate, and at the latter place there is a lead mine. A free grammar school was founded, in 1649, by Df' Lancelot Dawes and Dr. Gerard Langbaine, natives of this parish, and the latter an .industrious antiquary, whose endowment of it has been augmented, by subsequent benefactors, to about £90 per annum: the master has a salary of £60 per annum, and a dwelling-house. Here are several cairns, in one of which two Roman urns were found a few years ago: the vicinity also contains -other relics of antiquity and various natural curiosities, and abounds with scenery of the most pleasing and picturesque character.