CALDBECK, a parish, in ALLERDALE ward below Derwent, county of CUMBERLAND, comprising the townships (locally denominated Graves) of High Caldbeck, Low Caldbeck, and Haltcliffe-Caldbeck, and containing 1588 inhabitants, of which number, 272 are in High Caldbeck, 720 in Low Caldbeck, and 596 ia Haltcliffe-Caldbeck, 8 miles (S. E.) from Wigton. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, rated in. the king's books at £45.13. 6., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Carlisle. The church, dedicated to St. Kentigern, bears date 1112, and was founded soon after the establishment of an hospital for the entertainment of travellers, by the prior of Carlisle, with the permission of Ranulph D'Engain, chief forester of Inglewood: it stands in the township of Low Caldbeck, and was new roofed and greatly embellished in 1818. There are three meeting-houses in the parish for the Society of Friends, who settled here in the time of George Fox, their founder, who resided for some time at Woodhall. A manufactory for blankets, duffels, flannels, stocking-yarn, Sec., has been long established; here are also a brewery, a small paperr mill, a fulling-mill, a gingham and check manufactory, and a dye-house. The parish comprises a mountainous district of eighteen thousand acres, not more than six thousand of which are enclosed, the remainder being appropriated to depasturing numerous flocks of sheep; the hills contain various mineral productions, princi-. pally lead and copper ores, limestone, and coal, and there are several establishments for working the mines: a considerable proportion of silver is occasionally extracted from the lead-ore. The summit of Carrock Fell is nearly covered with heaps of stones occupying an elliptical area of two acres, in some instances rudely piled up in huge masses; but whether they are the scattered relics of an aboriginal structure, or the production of nature, is a matter of conjecture. The river Caldew flows close to the village, about half a mile from which, in a romantic glen called the Howk, where it is crossed by a natural bridge 'of limestone, the stream dashes impetuously over the rocks, and forms two interesting cascades, by the sides of which are singular excavations, called the Fairies' Kirk, and Fairies' Kettle. At Halt Close bridge, the river enters upon a subterraneous course, which it continues for about four miles, when it emerges at a place called Spouts Dub. Robert Sewell, a natural philosopher of considerable repute, was a native of this parish.