BOLTON, a chapelry in the parish of MORLAND,
WEST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 4 miles (N W.
by W.) from Appleby, containing 445 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Carlisle, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
the Landowners. The chapel is dedicated to All Saints,
and a grant of £100 was lately assigned by the Incorporated
Society for the enlargement of churches and
chapels for its re-erection on a more extended plan. A
meeting-house for the Methodists was built in 1818.
A free school for the instruction of fourteen children is
endowed with £14. 10. per annum, being the produce
of various benefactions, and is under the control of
eleven trustees: the school-room was built by subscription.
In 1816, a chain bridge, thirty yards in length,
was constructed across the Eden, about a mile north of
the village, at the expense of the landowners. Bewley
castle, which stands in the neighbourhood, and is now
occupied as a farm-house, was anciently the residence
of the bishops of Carlisle.