BLENCARN, a township, joint with Kirkland, in the parish of KIRKLAND, LEATH ward, county of CUMBERLAND, 10 miles (E.) from Penrith. The population is returned with Kirkland. At Blencarn-gate there is a free school, erected in 1775, and endowed with one hundred acres of land allotted to it on enclosing Culgaith common, and now let for £42 per annum, for which the master instructs gratuitously the children of Blencarn and Culgaith. Near the village is a spring, the water of which is of a powerfully astringent quality.